Hidekazu Furuya

I changed my mind. I decided to fix my mid-term work which is “1945 - the road to the end of war”.

I think the work already has a kind of interactivity. But I had better allow the audience to choose what they want to do for the 2nd part. So, I’ll try to put some choices in that part. For example, they can play the next level(on the point of view on the ground), watch the next level with their former voice, and so on. I want to do with some interactive script like Flash, but I don’t have such a skill. So, perhaps I operated by manual to change and proceed the next level.

My intention of that work is that I want to ask the audience about “justice”. Might is right, or winning is everything. But are victors always right? Also, are losers in all the wrong? Is it right to do anything for justice? Justice for whom? What is Justice?

Of course, I know my theme is too complecated to explain easily. But I’ll do that, because I believe reflecting on history is what not only losers but also victor must do. We have to learn from the history of making mistakes.  In terms of human being’s history, knowing and accepting the mistakes is more important than self-appreciation or blaming someone who made mistakes.

This is the inscription on the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Memorial Monument: “Rest in peace, because the same mistake will not be repeated”. By whom? Of course, by we human beings, not only by Japan.

I believe human beings can lead to the realization of real peaceful world by learning from history beyond generations, cultural gap or religious conflict.