So Much Done at 39 Years Old and Japan's Shameful People

After the march in support of sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis, Tennessee, which degenerated into a riot, King is back in the city for a second march in spite of a city injunction.

Closely watched by the city undercover police and the FBI, on his way to a dinner at the house of Billy and Gwen Kyles on April 4 1968, King was gunned down on the balcony of Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel by an escaped convict, James Earl Ray. King was 39 years old.

Thirty-nine years old! What was I doing at 39? What am I doing now?

And LBJ did not live to see the end of the Vietnam War.

Another book has been over. Every moment I finished a book, I miss it as if it has some sentimental tail like a comet.

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From Sankei Shimbun:
台湾の李登輝前総統（８４）は９日午前、東京・有楽町の日本外国特派員協会で記者会見し、「これまでの（来日で）最高でした。日本の皆様の支持のたまものです」と訪日実現に深く感謝した。
靖国神社への参拝が実現したことについて、「家族とともに兄の遺霊に冥福を祈ることができた。一生忘れられない」と満足そうに語った。
中国外務省が不満を表明していることに関しては、「中国やコリア（韓国、北朝鮮）が（靖国問題を）歴史、政治問題として取り上げるのは、（国内問題を）自国内処理できないためだ」と指摘。その上で「批判される理由はなく、（戦争で）亡くなった若い人を祀ることは、当たり前のことだ」と激しい口調で訴えた。
また中国の反発が外務省の報道官レベルにとどまったことに絡み、李氏は「（中国の）指導者は何も言っていない。（報道官が）騒いでいることを（メディアが）大きく取り上げるのは間違いだと思う」とも述べた。

The last point of his is very very important. There are some Japanese people, especially in the media, who are quite happy by inflaming and encouraging anti-Japan sentiment domestically and internationally. While we do not have to make excuses for the mistakes and actions that should rightly be considered as atrocities, those people’s attitude is completely shameful, all the same.