Commentary from Japan

This video aims at giving the viewer a basic historically grounded understanding of how Japanese perceive the conflict taking place in Ukraine and why Japanese are acting like they do at the present time. The video was written, narrated and edited by Hikaru Kitabayashi on 8 June 2022 and uploaded to Rumble on the next day.

This video is about me, Hikaru Kitabayashi, as a child with my mother in church with preacher who believed in Calvinism. It is a meditation of sorts that takes as its theme what I decided to do when when I first encountered predestination and, generally speaking, how this decision came to influence my life.

This video deals with my childhood in 1950s America, going from being a pre-schooler with no concept of racism to suddenly becoming fully racist as an elementary school child and then just as suddenly losing my racism when I was in junior high school. It also describes the real danger of racism which are the neuroses which racism creates inside the racist and which remain to be dealt with even after the racism, itself, has disappeared.

This video introduces a work of art by Qbu Kushibuchi which illustrates his interpretation of the Old Testament book, Ecclesiastes. The acapella singing of the text included by Qbu in his artwork was done by Hikaru Kitabayashi, who also did the video editing which was completed on 18 May 2022.