Letters to Sanjeev Dahal

(AU) To　Sanjeev　Dahal First, I thought you were rich in vocabulary.　You must have studied hard and read many books. And I have learned world history, but I can't explain that well like you. But after I read your writing, I thought it is important to know what the world has experienced when we intend to talk about world peace.　 As you know most people in the world are eager to welcome and preserve peace. Although war and battles still exist in the world. So we all make our efforts to find many good points of other country. Then we can become good friends each other and achieve world peace together.

(AY) To Sanjeer Dahal Hi, Sanjeer Dahal. I read your report. It was excellent, you wrote history in detail so I learned many and your English is good. Let me state some points attracted me in your report. In the first place, mankind has lost values of life these days. Not to limit war, dreadful murder happens recently. I often hear sad news in Japan. I think many people lost precious things in this abundant society. In the second place, nuclear states think nuclear weapons are necessary to maintain peace. I can't understand that idea. The time of subdue with power have to be end. In the third place, you hope that 21st century will be the century of peace. I really think so. I wish people in this world help each other and live happily.

(CK) To:Mr Sanjeev Dahal Nice to know you. I read your opinion and thought about man's desire and reason. We always have some desire but they are very natural things. (For example, appetite.) But sometimes we also have some bud desire in our mind. When we can't stop our bud desire, it causes some miserable things. I think some accidents occurred around our place, such as kidnapping, killing and stealing, cause for our black mind. I can't make out today's Japan's accidents. For example, child abuse, indiscriminate killing and so on. I can't imagine what we do when we lose our reason. Then, why we lose our reason? Maybe I think, it's a mental matter and matter of self-control. It is natural that we get angry but it isn't natural that we injured someone. Of course, when it comes to war, we can't say such an easy things. But I think the root of the beginning of wars was human's desire and conceit.Though it's a big problem for the human, there are no solutions. I hope the peace time comes all over the world.

(EM) To Sanjeev Dahal Hello! I read your letter. You are good writer. The letter has a little difficult point, but on the whole, it is plain and clear composition. I would like to tell you my impression and opinion of your thought. Most of the people desire the peace of the world. But we can't say that this world has kept peace. Why? Because there are a lot of wars this world. Such wars just brought this world the loss of precious life and deep sorrow. So we must look back to the history of war's tragedy. And we must try to establish the peace of the world. After the Second World War Japan has kept peace. As a result, young generation of Japanese didn't undergo war, of course me too. So, we just have some knowledge of wars. We can learn about the war on TV, radio and books. Also there are many movies about the war. I watched the movie, the name of "Starring lard". It is very sad story. The hero killed many people during a war; on the other hand his friends were killed. The death of the familiar people depressed him. I guessed his feeling. I live in Nagasaki in Japan. Probably, you know, Nagasaki is one of the bombed-out areas. The memorial park and the statue of peace were built in order for us to remember the war. When I was young, I visited there. I felt the destructive atomic bomb was terrible and terrible. Even now I have such a feeling. I hope that Government of the entire world will reform the idea of militarism and will decrease weapons: nuclear weapons and so on. We should do what we can do. Would you like to think about what we can do? I think that people need a mutual understanding in the internationalism.

(MH) Dear Sanjeev Dahal I read your composition. You said, "We have ignored the greatness of peace and harmony in the past. But I don't think so. I guess, without the people like war or battle and plunder, most people all over the world wanted eternal peace. Even though they became more powerful, and brainwashed innocence into killing each other with many terrible weapons. My mother country, Japan is one of them. I think it's shamful past, and we have to make up for our guilt for the people we injured badly. Yes, it's happened many many years ago, but we live on the many many historical facts, our ancestors made. And I'm sure it will be process to creating peaceful world, and it's our duty.

(MK) 　 To sanjeev Dahal I read your composition. My first impression is you have a lot of knowledge about the world. Now, except for some countries, Japanese and many countries' conditions are stable. We can even allege "peace". But, without past awful event, we could not lead a happy life. We have not experienced any wars. So, if we have no knowledge about the world, maybe it is very natural. Yet, thanks to transmission of wars from our ancestors to us, we are able to know cruelty of wars and importance of peace. We also have a duty to transmit them to our descendants. It is not too much to say that today's world is constructed by technological development. This gave us convenient life and material abundance. But, I sometimes think mankind may be too clever. Consequently, it produced various differences between many countries. And finally, it brought a lot of wars. And, are there any advantages in nuclear weapon? It can only "destroy". Whatever man used it, it never works as a happy instrument. However, think again about wars, though they are very cruel and awful, they taught importance of peace to us more than enough. Don't forget this learning, all countries have to make every effort to maintain the world peace.

(MM) To Sanjeev Dahal I read your report. Your report deeply moved me!! My wish is to get rid of all nuclear weapons . Hiroshima and Nagasaki were dropped atomic bomb by U.S.A in 1945, and many people were badly wounded and lost their lives . I live in Nagasaki , so I learned about tragedy and terror of atomic bomb . Many people are suffering from aftereffects still. I think nuclear weapons should not being because these lead tragedy. I hope to realize the abolition of nuclear weapons as soon as possible. Japanese are victim of war, on the other hand Japanese are assailant. Japan has done cruel things during wars. I think that we admit this fact, and we must compensate for wounded people. And we should hand a story of tragedy of war down to next age .

(NN) To Dahal, Thank you for your letter. I read your letter and thought about world peace. I agree your feelings that nuclear weapons don't need our world peace. I also think people don't have to use weapons like guns or daggers, even armies. However, Japan, which I also live in, has armies to protect our nation. I think army represents that we don' t trust other countries and we are waiting for wars happen. We don't prepare the wars because wars are never occurred. We have to talk with each other and cultivate the strong bond. Then, we'll be able to avoid wars and battles and the peace is coming our lives. Peace is the achievement for all human beings. In the past, in the future, and in the present, we always seek for happiness. Most human think our happiness is our peace. Basically, earth is only the one world. All human beings is only the one creature. Naturally, we must live in peace. We can live in peace! To live in peace, it's essential for people to understand and respect each cultures or customs. It leads our mind to concentrate on international-understanding. Finally, I wrote many things about wars and peace, but the best thing I want to say is importance of our consciousness. Everyone must think about our world peace to keep our happiness. And we'll sure to become one in real meaning. Thanks again your letters!!

(RH) Dear Sanjeev Dahal Hello! I read your "World Peace in the 21st Century". And I felt that your thought is close to my thought. Although there are so many organizations, why do wars never vanish from the world? I think because there are still countries that don't have the mind to try to understand countries that have different opinion, bearing only hatred toward hostile countries. In Japan, there are not so much troubles caused by the differences of religion. So, I cannot quite understand wars caused by it. And I may be able to say easily. But I want to believe that the essential nature of human is the same wherever we live. In your letter, you said, "The attitude of nuclear states that 'nuclear weapons are necessary to maintain peace' has to be changed." I think so, too. 56 years have passed already since the World War ended. So, the number of people who went through wars is decreasing. And, people are gradually getting to forget the real fear of war, atomic bombs and various nuclear weapons. If a country has a nuclear weapon, the hostile country will want to have more powerful nuclear weapon. As a result, nuclear weapons will overflow in the world. Probably, no one wants it. So, from now, people must recognize 'nuclear weapons are never necessary to maintain peace' and be greedy for peace so that any war wouldn't happen again. Sincerely yours, R. H.

(RY) To Sanjeev Dahal Thank you for your letter. When I read it, I admired your view of wars and peace for us. I think people were stupid too. And many people began to realize it, so we make every effort to prevent battles and keep peace. But, if government of the every country has idea that nuclear weapons are important to keep world peace, our efforts make no sense. Now, it seems to decrease the rate that wars and battles happens. But there are many people who are suffering from mental anguish now. Trauma was given by wars is deep. When World War �U happened, My grandmother was high school student. She was forced to work at the communications division. Then she experienced atomic bomb in NAGASAKI. She lost her big sister, little brother and many friends by the bomb. She told me that I could remember clearly the tremendous scene and I would be not able to forget it. She said that war must not happen again. Though I didn't experience war, so did I. I begin to be interested in politic in Japan, because it is easy for us to understand the basic policy of the KOIZUMI cabinet. And the Diet is on TV, so I watch. If I miss it, commercial TV broadcast again and again. Also, nation's support of this cabinet is the much higher until now. It is very rare. In fact, I expect this. Especially MAKIKO TANAKA. She is the Foreign Minister. Japan is refusing that it put missiles to defend from missiles of other countries (for example, Iraq, Iran and North Korea and so on.) in Japan, though USA requires Japan put missiles. I think missiles doesn't need. And Japan requires disarmament of America in OKINAWA. I think it is important to indicate we don't have intention of fighting to other countries and she insists on it as a representative of Japan. I think Japan must make effort to keep world peace better.　 I knew a little about the world condition since I watch the Diet on TV. And I thought why USA requires the promise which Japan have army? Why do many countries want to have authorities? I think it is our instinct, so we must control ourselves. We must keep precious things, beautiful nature and valuable life of living things. We must make an every effort to keep world peace. It will be hard, but it isn't very much against lost of life. Because Peace is irresponsible for people in the world.

(SY) To　Sanjeev　Dahal I　read　your　report　about　world　peace．Particularly　you　wrote　nuclear　weapon　and　local　conflicts．I　think　that　nuclear　weapons　have　to　be　thrown　away　too．I　consider　that　we　don't　need nuclear　weapons　to　maintain world　peace．Of　course　using nuclear　weapons　is　threaten．But　Having　and　maintaining　is threaten　too．For　example　nuclear　accident　is　so！　　　　　 World　organization　is　very　important　to　keep　the　world　peace．NATO，OSA，SAARC，NAM，ASEAN　and　so　on．Each　region(Asia，Europe，Africa，North　and　south　America，and　so　on)　has　Organization．But　local　conflicts　have　lasted　in　each　region．In　fact　those　organizations　are　not　perfect　yet．those　organizations　are　needed　more　strong　connect　I　think．And we effort to know each culture, custom, religion, etc. If we can carry out, world peace comes true, I think.

(TK) To Sanjeev Dahal I read your composition. I agree with your opinion. Japan is an only country that atomic bombs were dropped. Now many atomic bomb victims are having hard times. Don't use nuclear weapons and manufacture nuclear bombs, because war and atomic bombs, weapons, do us no good and much harm. We have to cooperate in order to remove battles and civil wars from countries all over the world. If we want to carry out the plan, the world organization like NATO, OSA, SAARC, NAM, and the United Nations have to do them duties more. To keep the world peace is very difficult, but we should do so to spend happy life.

(TM) To Sanjeev Dahal I read your writing about world peace in the 21st century. 6 months have passed since 21st century came. 20 century is an age of convulsions. Many people in the world experienced the war and they lost their lives and were injured. 20 century was often said “The century of war”. I hope that 21st century will be said “The century of peace”. We have to make efforts to realize it. After the World War �U ，this world began to change into peace. And today all we have to do is to maintain the peace and to make over it to the next generation. But here is a problem. That is the unclear weapon. The unclear weapon is the most dreadful weapon humankind created. I think that the real peace won't come unless we remove unclear weapon from this world. We must not look away from the past，and we can't avoid it. We have to learn lessons from the past. War causes nothing but destruction as you wrote.

(YK) I have read your report. You know a lot about currently accidents and also thinking about peace seriously. I was impressed about your attitude. I'm living in Nagasaki. Nagasaki is one of the cities where an atomic bomb was dropped. After the World War�U, Japan has promised not to have and get the nuclear weapons. But there are many countries which have nuclear weapons and even some are still inventing it. I can hardly believe that. Why the nuclear weapons are needed? The nuclear states said that, " Nuclear weapons are necessary to maintain peace." I can't understand it. What is this mean? Probably, nuclear states think they need nuclear weapons when they are attacked by other countries. They justify the reason they have nuclear weapons. But I think nuclear weapons are not needed. If they worried about attacked by other countries, we only have to make a world without battles. Before thinking about bad things, we must take action to make a peaceful world. I think peaceful world would not come if there are nuclear weapons. Having that, we will use it someday. The nuclear must be vanished from this world. And after that, the real peaceful world would come.

(YKh) Dear Sanjeev Dahal I read your speech about world peace in 21st century. There are many things I can agree. I also think mankind has lost some of the precious values of life. Although you wrote that the ideals of brotherhood and co-existence seem to have no longer any meaning, I think you have a little over action. I think People have brotherhood certainly, but many of them don't know real style of wars. You said that there has been effort to establish peace after every war. Definitely people living in wars is well of telling about its dreadfulness. But, like me, those have never experienced it doesn't know the realities. Without the realities, it's impossible to reflect and effort for peace all the more. Now there're no wars in Japan. But recently, the number of crimes occurred by teenagers have increased. Since end of World War 2, big incident called war don't exist. So Japanese younger don't know murder except for dramas and news of TV. Thus such crimes occur, I think. From this point, just the criminals may realize real fear of murder. That is, if we wanna establish peaceful world in our future, we have to bring up children find pain of others, not learning it as knowledge.

(YKn) TO Sanjeev Dahal Hello! I am Y. K.. Now we have much rain in Japan because it is rainy season. It's very humid and uncomfortable, so I hope this rainy season will be over early. Summer comes after rainy season!! How is the climate in Nepal? By the way, I read your letter. I agree with you. Your opinion about peace is almost the same as mine. At first, the words that impressed me were "The attitude of nuclear states that 'nuclear weapons are necessary to maintain peace' has to be changed." It is very important. There is no peace in this world as long as we have any weapons. Having them means that inflicts and wars can easily occur anywhere. It is very dangerous. In the World War �U the U.S. dropped A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An A-bomb deprived tens of thousands of life in an instant. From this experience, everyone must have learned about the terror of nuclear weapons. However, they continue developing and making such terrible things. I can't believe it! I cannot understand them. As you said, they insist that nuclear weapons are necessary to keep the world peaceful. But this is wrong. It is them that destroy peace. And if no country has nuclear weapons, we don't have to have them. This situation is just like a country where people don't own guns. It is very safe country. So I want to set the world in this situation. It should be an ideal and we have to effort in order to realize it. I think this is the first step given us to get true peace.

(YM) People　thought the world wish for peace. Peace is the most important thing for the human being at any time. It is ideal state that all the people in the world are able to have peace and live in a calm and peaceful environment. But in fact, it isn't easy to maintain the peace at any time. We had a lot of tragic event in the past. I suppose that the most terrible accident in human histry is World War 1 and World War 2. These war involved all over the countries. A lot of lives and property fell a victim to the war. I agree with your thought that peace is our basic need and war causes nothing but destruction and dissapointment to us. So we have not make a same mistake and we have to try to spread peace in its nook and corner. But there are battlements and wars in somewhere in the world now. Although we have to stop it and help their countries, it is difficult to intervene in a dispute. I hope that the 21st century will be Century of peace and happy for all countries. To realize this, we have to effort to have compassion each other.

(YS) To Sanjeev Dahal I read your composition "World Peace in the 21st Century". I think you have a lot of knowledge. Today, all people desire peace. People have experienced the tragedy of the war, so they could understand the importance of peace. But conflicts and civil wars are going on somewhere in the world. Why people desire to authority and land so much? Which is more important authority or peace? Which is more important land or life? I think peace is most important thing. We can't live happily without peace. In your composition, you said "The people of 21st century prefer peace against war". I think any day people prefer peace to war. But people have been committed many faults. After the two big faults, at last people convinced of their mistakes. To convince that, people sacrificed a lot of lives. We must not forget that. We must make and maintain the world peace.