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
Based on Japanese and German porn, a candid window into their national soul, invading other countries is how their boys get dates.
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.
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.
RE: Rape of Nanking - bet the Japanese school groups dont go there.
Some thoughts as per the article ( a japanese woman who studied in Australia later ):
1) The Ministry of Education’s guidelines for junior high schools state that all children must be taught about Japan’s “historical relations with its Asian neighbors and the catastrophic damage caused by the World War II to humanity at large”.
The only problem with the above is this — IT’s TOO GENERAL.
Based on our guideline, each school decides which specific events they focus on depending on the areas and the situation of the school and the students’ maturity.
It is uncertain whether such atrocities as Bataan or the comfort women or the deliberate killing of civilians will be taught in each individual schools the way they are being taught in China or Korea.
2) May students are prepping for higher education — getting into some of the best college and universities in Japan which is EXTREMELY COMPETITIVE.
For students who are competing to get into a good senior high school or university, the race is extremely tough and requires memorization of hundreds of historical dates, on top of all the other subjects that have to be studied.
They have no time to dwell on a few pages of war atrocities, even if they read them in their textbooks.
3) The saving grace of all these is — Japan does not censor literature or the internet ( unlike China for instance ). So, any honest Japanese who wants to know the truth can read all about it ( if he is interested ).