Yes. it's historical - but maybe to provide context, the students should also see some of the atrocities committed by Japan during the war too. Those air raids happened for a reason.
” but maybe to provide context, the students should also see some of the atrocities committed by Japan during the war too. “
Not enough , I know as I agree with you , but :
” Despite the efforts of the nationalist textbook reformers, by the late 1990s the most common Japanese schoolbooks contained references to, for instance, the Nanjing Massacre, Unit 731, and the comfort women of World War II, all historical issues which have faced challenges from ultranationalists in the past. The most recent of the controversial textbooks, the New History Textbook, published in 2000, which significantly downplays Japanese aggression, was shunned by nearly all of Japan’s school districts . “