I found this news story last week. It's about our national anthem.
"'Kimigayo(Japanese national anthem)' directive violates freedom of thought, court rules.
The Tokyo District Court on Thursday ordered the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to pay 12.03 million yen, or 30,000 yen each, in compensation to 401 teachers who objected to a city directive obliging them to stand and sing the national anthem at school ceremonies."
The guidelines for teachers were set by the education ministry in Tokyo, which says schools must fly the national flag during official ceremonies and that teachers must lead the students to sing the national anthem.
Some school followed the guidelines and fired the teachers who didn't stand and sing the anthem few years ago.
Does our national anthem obstruct teachers and students freedom of thought? Well...I don't think so.
The judgement is something wrong. The guidelines disturb thier freedom, that's all...don't they?
I'm proud of my country, and feel like that I want to hand our culture down to posterity when I sing Japanese national anthem. Currently, there is not so many opportunities for us Japanese to straighten up and think our culture. So I think it's good thing to sing national anthem, of course it's not good way to force people to sing though....will you sing your countries national anthem?
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