What Japanese history lessons leave out: Why neighboring countries still hold a grudge against Japan

BBC ^ | By Mariko Oi

[struggle]

The Nazi that Saved Chinese

[longfellow]

What was the sentence, Ouch?

[silverleaf]

Or maybe just maybe some historical acts by some cultures are so shockingly horrible they cannot be forgotten

After all what has changed about the innate character of a Japanese or a German in just 70 years that can be taken as irrevocable change in their value of human life that is not of their own culture?

Just today I was reading about Auschwitz and learned things I had not known. Horrible. No it was not a small minority of Germans that produced a culture that could do those atrocities. Estimated 4 million dead at that camp in horrible inhuman ways. Look up Auschwitz injections and do some reading.

Rape of Nanking - bet the Japanese school groups dont go there. Author Iris Chang researched and wrote book - then committed suicide

Sorry you dont go from inhuman to human in 70 years. You just develop a veneer

[Mase]

The Battan Death March should be mandatory curriculum in Japan, and here, as should what happened in Nanking and the many POW camps. My young teen son read Unbroken this summer and was shocked by the inhumanity of the Japanese. I was going to give him the book on Nanking to read as a follow up, but decided that can come later. He's reading King Rat instead.

WWII is hardly spoken of in our schools today and it's been ignored for the most part in Japan. But they all manage to learn about the US internment of Japanese and Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I despise public education.

[Reeses]

After all what has changed about the innate character of a Japanese or a German in just 70 years that can be taken as irrevocable change in their value of human life that is not of their own culture?

Based on Japanese and German porn, a candid window into their national soul, invading other countries is how their boys get dates.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

There were still city blocks of smashed concrete in Yokohama and Sagamihara where we lived. Two houses north of our Yokohama house was a lot filled with broken stone, re-rod and broken glass. Our maid, Masako-san, said it had been a pharmaceutical manufacturer in war time. There were hundreds of tiny glass vials of liquid scattered about. We returned stateside when I was 13 years old.

[FreedomPoster]

>>Perhaps a few articles on the seedier side of the chinese cultural revolution are in order.

Great point. The Chinese government is a direct descendant of Mao’s government, which means it’s still at the top of the leaderboard with over 75 million killed.

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM

[silverleaf]

Thats because the people who actually suffered and the people who knew them are mostly dead now. My Dads best friend survived Bataan Death March and my Mom who just died at 92 would never own a Japanese car or appliance in her life.

[trisham]

I went to school in both Sagamihara and Yokohama. Returned here when I was 12.5 years old.

[Dawn53Fl]

We spent a couple months in China when my husband was on a job assignment. We stayed on the executive floor set up for long term ex-pats. They had a dining room where they served breakfast in the morning and they had a lounge on the floor that was used in the evening.

You could sense the attitude of the hotel guests , who were Japanese, against the Chinese staff. The animosity was palpable from the Japanese toward the Chinese hostesses that worked in the hotel’s common areas set up for foreign visitors.

[granada]

So it was America’s fault.

If America hadn’t purged Japanese communists in post-war government and civil service, Japanese would have gone very far in self loathing.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Did you go to school at Yo-Hi ?

[gaijin]

The Steps:

1. Historical guilt orgy

2. Immigration

3. Cultural destruction

4. Destruction of the country

5. PERFECT, Eternal Global Bliss

[Eric in the Ozarks]

In the 1950s, the reds were known as the Zengakuran Students Federation.

They staged snake-dances and held up traffic every year on May 1st. Americans were advised to stay indoors on on the base.

[trisham]

No. Saint Maur, now the Saint Maur International School.

[granada]

But if south korean government tries to use the historical issue as a political weapons, it will have nothing to do with humanity.

Just like black radicals demand compensation from whites for the slavery, or Biden told blacks:don’t vote for Republicans. They will put you all back in chains.

[silverleaf]

I suggest your son watch the History Channel series “ Secrets of the Axis”
It’s sure an eye opener on the ties between Japan and Germany in the 1920’s and how the Japanese Secret Societies actually provided a model for the German organization that became the Nazi party
Also on the biological warfare program Japan developed and used against China ( largest in human history, tested on Chinese and US POWs) and planned to use vs California when they had a long range delivery system ( they were close)

A good book for his age about North Korea would be “The Aquariums of Pyongyang” most told from the perspective of a young boy who grew up in that system, was imprisoned in gulag when his family lost favor, eventually escaped as a young man

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I used to think that Asian mistrust of neighboring countries due to ancient and recent hatred a bad thing until I realized what power Asia would have if they were all on the same page. Just thinking about it scares me.

[Rummyfan]

The Chinese, the Koreans, the Filipinos.... yeah, they’ve all got reasons to hold a grudge against the Japanese. Fairly recent reasons.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I went to 3rd and 4th grades at Yokohama International School, then back to Yo-Hi for 5th and 6th. The school was on the Bluff and was reached via a bus ride from our Sannotani house, across from Area 2 military dependents area.