The other day, I watch a TV program that explained about the occupation polices after WW2 had an intention of

"The UN tried to change Japanese to English as National language in Japan, indeed."

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The TV program said that it was based on a hypothesis that "Japanese was too difficult to understand the government policies, so Japanese must have rushed into the WW2."

After the investigation of it, they should have faced the reality of aristocracy of literacy rate in the world, so the polices were abandoned after all.

But this result is very interesting for me deeply.

We can read this fact into "Japanese might choose the war on their own will" or "espionage of the administration, army and mass-communication".

Above and beyond this.

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My junior daughter said strongly,

"Why did they enforce the policy of "English Language Empowerment Act" ?"

I am an guardian of Japanese people, and I think that I cannot accept her claims directly. So I tried to argue against her even if it is our stated reason.

"Well, any language is a concept of tool that can define races, and it also gives us a background of power of nation...."

Indeed, I am impressed with regrettable feeling that

"It is easy to understand patterns of thinking of children whose parent is not loved by English"