https://www.alojapan.com/1342312/japan-looks-to-embrace-peace-through-strength-thats-a-good-thing/ Japan Looks To Embrace Peace Through Strength. That’s a Good Thing. #China #ForeignPolicy #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #news #WorldWarIi Eighty years ago to the day, the most destructive war in human history drew rapidly to a close. The bill for Japan’s sneak attack on Pearl Harbor had come due as American forces closed in on the island nation, choking off its critical supply lines and bombing its cities into ash. An atomic bomb
 described it as follows.
夏繪はいつも影のやうにそつと寄つて來る。そして、忍びやかな小聲で話しかける。
「何ですか？」
夏水仙のやうな匂ひ。それは處女の體臭であらうか？ それとも髮の香であらうか？ その仄かな匂ひが、いかに强く淸彥の官能をかきみだすことぞ。
[Natsue wa itsumo kage no yōni sotto yotte kuru. Soshite, shinobiyaka na kogoe de hanashi kakeru.
"Nandesuka?"
Natsuzuisen no yōna nioi. Sore wa shojo no taishū dearōka? Soretomo kami no ka dearōka? Sono honokana nioi ga, ikani tsuyoku kiyohiko no kannō wo kakimidasu koto zo.]
Natsue always comes (to Kiyohiko) softly, like a shadow. Then she speaks to him in a stealthy whisper.
"Yes?" (he replied)
Smells like (the flower of) Natsuzuisen. Is it the body odor of a virgin? Or is it the scent of her hair? How strongly that faint smell disturbs the sensuality of Kiyohiko.
From 喘ぐ白鳥[Aegu hakuchō](The Gasping Swan)
Source: https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1111518/1/54](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/996/440/841/665/185/original/c17bc15a426a2af6.jpg "The flowers have a faintl fragrance. Novelist 加藤 武雄[Katō Takeo](1888-1956) described it as follows.
夏繪はいつも影のやうにそつと寄つて來る。そして、忍びやかな小聲で話しかける。
「何ですか？」
夏水仙のやうな匂ひ。それは處女の體臭であらうか？ それとも髮の香であらうか？ その仄かな匂ひが、いかに强く淸彥の官能をかきみだすことぞ。
[Natsue wa itsumo kage no yōni sotto yotte kuru. Soshite, shinobiyaka na kogoe de hanashi kakeru.
\"Nandesuka?\"
Natsuzuisen no yōna nioi. Sore wa shojo no taishū dearōka? Soretomo kami no ka dearōka? Sono honokana nioi ga, ikani tsuyoku kiyohiko no kannō wo kakimidasu koto zo.]
Natsue always comes (to Kiyohiko) softly, like a shadow. Then she speaks to him in a stealthy whisper.
\"Yes?\" (he replied)
Smells like (the flower of) Natsuzuisen. Is it the body odor of a virgin? Or is it the scent of her hair? How strongly that faint smell disturbs the sensuality of Kiyohiko.
From 喘ぐ白鳥[Aegu hakuchō](The Gasping Swan)
Source: https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1111518/1/54")
