Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Meaningful Victory

Nadeshiko Japan members came back to Japan this morning. I have seen their best and brightest smiles over and over again on a TV screen since then. Their splendid achievement of winning the FIFA Women's World Cup Championship gave us a tremendous encouragement and hope for sure.

It is already more than 4 months since March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster, but we are still struggling in the long way of reconstruction and forced to live in an invisible radiation fear every day due to our ineffective leader and his government. Not only I but also many other people, I believe, have been getting disappointed with our own country. Nadeshiko Japan's triumph far better than our expectation made us realize again how beautiful our flag of the rising sun is. Through world sports events, we build up nationalism, patriotism, or strong love toward our country if I put them in plain words. In that sense, their victory at this time is quite meaningful.


Their resilience against the last ditch was awesome! Without such a miracle in the penalty shootout, they couldn't have made such a fairytale victory. They remind us of never give up mind that we Japanese have deep in our soul.
Congratulations!

27 comments:

Tabor said...

Many Americans were sad to see our women lose...but so happy for Japan. It was a bittersweet day for us!

middle-angel said...

>Tabor
I can imagine how you and many Americans feel now, and at the same time I am very thankful to people in the States expressing their celebration of Nadeshiko Japan. It was a very good game indeed.

Consultant ERP said...

What I like best about Japanese people is that they are good at almost everything they do :-) I can not believe it sometimes, but it's like that!

Stickers said...

When being a kid, I used to watch manga cartoons with female soccer players :)

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>Consultant ERP
I guess we Japanese are, by and large, diligent, which is one of the reasons. Since we live in a small country with few resources, perhaps we have acquired good at ingenuity.

>Stickerd
Really? I even didn't know such cartoons exist!

Dementia said...

There were lots of cartoon series produced in Japan which aired in Europe for so many years. I also do remember something with Olly and Benji (soccer players), Mila and Shiro (voleyball players) and many other cartoons :) I just didn't know they were Japanese at that time as I was quite young!

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>Dementia
To tell you the truth, I know none of them.(laugh)
Thank you for the information and I'm glad that Japanese cartoons are popular in Europe.

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