Serbia

Modern Russia and the Russo-Ukrainian War

Blanca Takahashi, "To Tokyo, Serbia" - What is a Serbian work? Japanese debut work by a Serbian writer under the guidance of Kayoko Yamazaki

The author, Branka Takahashi, is a writer from Serbia. She studied Japanese at the University of Belgrade, where her advisor was the poet Kayoko Yamazaki, whom we have mentioned on our blog.

Delicate inner depictions. There is humor that makes you giggle.

Reading "To Tokyo, Serbia" with the author's thoughts and feelings was extremely stimulating and enjoyable.

I would highly recommend it.
Modern Russia and the Russo-Ukrainian War

Kayoko Yamazaki's "Belgrade Diary" - Winner of the Yomiuri Literary Award! Pearls of Words Spun from Life in Serbia after the Airstrikes

What did the author, a poet, see and feel in the city of Belgrade after the Yugoslav conflict and NATO bombing?

The casual, everyday life that continues after the conflict.

In the words that describe the daily life, the shadow of the conflict gradually appears and disappears...

I think this work is very rare in that it captures the daily lives of people who still live there, rather than easy-to-understand "special events. It is a wonder that it does not merely cut out everyday life, but also gives us a sense of the depth of human life.

I thought it was quite plausible that this work won the Yomiuri Literary Award. This work has a mysterious power.
Modern Russia and the Russo-Ukrainian War

Kayoko Yamazaki, "Blue Darkness Whispering from There" - A collection of essays by a poet who experienced the NATO bombing of Belgrade - What was happening there?

This work is a collection of essays by Kayoko Yamazaki, a poet living in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.

Why did the Yugoslav conflict happen...

This conflict has been described in terms of a simple "Serbian villain theory."

In the midst of such international public opinion, Serbia was bombed by NATO. The author remained in Belgrade during the intense bombing and wrote in this book the voices of the people living there and his own thoughts and feelings.
Modern Russia and the Russo-Ukrainian War

Taku Morisumi, "Iraq: Children of the Gulf War" - depleted uranium munitions, which were also used in NATO's air strikes on Yugoslavia - and the ongoing threat of radioactive contamination

In 1999, during the Kosovo War, NATO forces conducted heavy air strikes on Belgrade and Serb settlements on the pretext of "stopping the Serbian genocide. The weapons used were depleted uranium munitions, which cause radioactive contamination in areas where they are fired. These weapons cause radioactive contamination in the area where they are fired. I was shocked to learn that NATO forces were shooting such dangerous weapons in large quantities, and I picked up this book because I thought, "I must know more about the realities caused by these weapons.

This article will discuss the horror of such depleted uranium munitions.
Learning from the Bosnian Conflict and the Tragedy of the Rwandan Genocide: International Conflicts after the Cold War

Hisao Yanagisawa "Resonate from the Balkans! Song of Joy" - An amazing story of a Japanese conductor who survives in the Balkans

The author's account of the complex post-conflict political situation, the devastated infrastructure, and ethnic sentiments are extraordinary hardships.
But even in such a situation, I was really numb to this story where he believed in the power of music and pushed forward and created a miracle......!
There is salvation in this book. It conveys a strong message of reviving peace and hope through the power of music in a world of misery and hatred.