Ten Years Later
Having read Haruki Murakami's Underground not too long ago, for me this article in Japan's English-language magazine Metropolis is required reading. What effect did the gas attacks have after this long? And what changes, if any, will continue in the year's ahead? The way it paints Japanese society as religiously lost is insightful, helping to explain how the attacks happened in the first place.
Thanks to Masha for the link.
The author does his best to paint Japan as religiously lost, doesn't he? Not that Japan was ever "religious" in the sense that members of proselytizing faiths consider themselves religious...
ReplyDeleteIn light of similar "new religion" activity worldwide that doesn't result in murder, and the fact that one of the most fervently religious corners of the world is brimming with crazed violence, it seems to me like there must be other - and more critical - variables in the equation.
... But perhaps Underground should be next on my list of Murakami reading.
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