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To: SeekAndFind

Years ago, wife and I toured the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor.
On the Navy launch taking us out to the shrine were a dozen or more Japanese kids in their teens.
I asked one why they were on the tour. A young woman responded saying “We wanted to see what our fathers and grandfathers had done. The war is not taught much in Japan...”


3 posted on 08/15/2018 7:09:04 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
The war is not taught much in Japan.

When I began visiting Japan in the late 80's, the #1 best selling book was a rewrite of WWII ending in a glorious Japanese victory. Most Japanese have no grasp of what happened in China, Korea, the Philippines or in any of the prisoner of war camps. I found it all shocking.

10 posted on 08/15/2018 7:34:19 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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