Like many others I felt unsettled, downright disgusted with the cold cruelty the characters displayed in this series. What made me even more distraught than learning its historical background is the fact that the real life victims of this inhuman treatment still haven't received any official compensation for their suffering.

As you may have learnt from different reviews, the events in Bradherley no Basha show great parallels to actual wartime atrocities committed by the Japanese government and military during the Second World War. Those victims became known as "Comfort Women".

At least the Japanese government has apologised officially to the comfort women by now. However, remarks like this one show that there are still more than enough undiscerning politicians who refuse to take full responsibility for these crimes by providing reparations to the victims.

In order to change this condition, I'd like to support resolutions like this one by Amnesty International. Does anyone know of a way to do so via internet, e-mail etc.? Are there any open resolutions at the moment (the one by AI expired)?

[color=#8A795D]"Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to.
He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him."

• Ursula K. Le Guin, Gifts[/color]

To be savoured:

• Blood Alone by TAKANO Masayuki
• Otoyomegatari by MORI Kaoru
• Gangsta. by Kohske
• Seishun Kouryakuhon by AKIZUKI Sorata