The Little White Girl Had to Bow Her Head for Emperor Hirohito ( La petite peau blanche devait courber la tête pour l'empereur Hirohito ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Belgium ]

Belgium released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Dutch ( Subtitles ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Based on author, choreographer, activist, and filmmaker Lydia Chagoll's autobiography A Childhood in the Japanese Camps and historical essay Hirohito: Emperor of Japan, The Little White Girl Had to Bow Her Head for Emperor Hirohito is a lucid and impassioned examination of the postwar geopolitics that have led to the cultural amnesia and historical whitewashing (enabled by western governments) of Hirohito's role in the commission of atrocities during Japan's expansionist campaign that culminated in the tragedy of the Pacific War. Lydia, 8 years old, flew with her parents from Belgium to escape the Nazis. After many countries had refused to accept them as refugees, they were shipped to what is now Indonesia. When the Japanese occupied the region a few months later, they imprisoned Lydia for 3 years. All her adult life Lydia has believed that as long as Japan continues to deny guilt for war crimes and crimes against humanity, the victims are denied justice. Japan however, has chosen to bury its fascist military past in silence, so that each new generation grows up in ignorance of Japan's criminal past. ...The Little White Girl Had to Bow Her Head for Emperor Hirohito ( La petite peau blanche devait courber la tête pour l'empereur Hirohito )