Same Melody


When hunting for pictures of Japan I'm usually accosted by something respectfully eccentric or otherworldly. This scene from Tokyo is heartening in its familiarity: protesters using the occasion of bloodsoaked dictatorship Burma's "Anti-Fascist Resistance Day" to demand the human dignity sought, through threat, pain and imprisonment, by democratic champion and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. As explained by the Democratic Voice of Burma, Resistance Day celebrates the March 27, 1945 confrontation of invaders — a military force from a tyranny that is no more, in its place a democratic government reserving public space for this Tokyo march.

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