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Japan Adopts History Textbook That Justifies Its Invasion of Asia (China, Korea)
Donga.com ^ | August 26, 2004 | Hun-Joo Cho Hyong-gwon Pu

Posted on 08/27/2004 4:05:18 PM PDT by Fishing-guy

On August 26, the Tokyo Education Board adopted a new public school history textbook filled with nationalistic bias involving distortions of historical facts and exoneration of the Japanese invasion of Asian countries and the rounding-up of women in occupied areas for use as sex slaves for its military personnel.

(Excerpt) Read more at english.donga.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan
KEYWORDS: textbooks
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To: mrsmith

Haven't really any clue about modern world history, do you? Flaunting one's ignorance so publicly is rarely considered a good thing......except in Hollywood. Never saw you in a movie, so................


43 posted on 08/27/2004 7:36:28 PM PDT by RightOnline
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To: Quix

The Japanese and the Chinese will never be allies. Five thousand years of history make it impossible.


46 posted on 08/27/2004 7:40:15 PM PDT by maro
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To: Fishing-guy

Japan has a long history of imperialism. They often have invaded Korea through out its history. Korean developed the turtle boat as a result of Japan's invasion in the 15th century, where Japan's fleet lost more ships then the Spanish Armada.


47 posted on 08/27/2004 7:41:10 PM PDT by Ptarmigan
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To: walford

I just read your resume. I'm always glad to see some new non-leftists journalists coming down the pike.


48 posted on 08/27/2004 7:42:09 PM PDT by Dan Evans
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To: Joseph_CutlerUSA

I'm rather hoping they can.


49 posted on 08/27/2004 7:42:14 PM PDT by thoughtomator (antidisestablishment libertarian)
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To: fat city

900,000 Japanese were killed in 29 Japanese cities which were torched by night-raiding incendiary bomb-carrying B-29's from the Marianas in 1945. They were warned to leave the cities; they didn't; they were told to give up; they didn't. Ergo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
One never hears about this; only the nuke stories.
Not a peep about incendiaries.
Paper burns.


50 posted on 08/27/2004 7:43:37 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (900,000)
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To: mrsmith
I'd wait another couple generations before I'd expect japan to teach a "fair" account of WW2. They're no better than us.

The way I've heard it, our schools are just the reverse, U.S. history books wallow in America-bashing.

51 posted on 08/27/2004 7:47:34 PM PDT by Dan Evans
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To: Joseph_CutlerUSA

Check the figures... Japan is #3 in the world, last I looked, in military spending, right after the US and Saudi Arabia, with Russia a close fourth.


52 posted on 08/27/2004 7:48:07 PM PDT by thoughtomator (antidisestablishment libertarian)
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To: Truthsearcher
But for a long time- for generations- our textbooks DID deny what we did to the Indians.

I think they still downplayed it when I was in HS in the 60's, though I think some of our massacres were mentioned.

53 posted on 08/27/2004 7:48:51 PM PDT by mrsmith ("Oyez, oyez! All rise for the Honorable Chief Justice... Hillary Rodham Clinton ")
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To: walford

Who different attitude in Germany. Germany tends to feel deep shame about the war, and actively supresses any movement to glorify it.


54 posted on 08/27/2004 7:50:36 PM PDT by Melas
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To: mrsmith

I think there is a difference though. The scale of destruction are not close, and the greater the crime committed, the more urgent is the contrition for the crime.


55 posted on 08/27/2004 7:53:44 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: RightOnline
Whatever makes you feel good...
56 posted on 08/27/2004 7:58:21 PM PDT by mrsmith ("Oyez, oyez! All rise for the Honorable Chief Justice... Hillary Rodham Clinton ")
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To: Joseph_CutlerUSA

Uh....what's PC about the German's taking responsibility for their actions?


57 posted on 08/27/2004 8:01:56 PM PDT by Melas
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To: Truthsearcher
We didn't have the capability of doing as much damage. But we had as much bad intent: "manifest destiny", "racial and cultural superiority".

I think there is a "natural" course in these things that can't be rushed without causing an aberration in the national psyche. Three generations is my estimate FWIW.

58 posted on 08/27/2004 8:07:50 PM PDT by mrsmith ("Oyez, oyez! All rise for the Honorable Chief Justice... Hillary Rodham Clinton ")
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To: mrsmith

I think you are letting the Japanese off the hook too easy to say they and us had similar levels of bad intent.

As far as I know, when did not conduct massive slaughters of civilians, conduct biological experiments on human beings, used live humans to practice bayonette techniques, or other utterly revolting atrocities. None of which were isolated incidents but done as a matter of military policy to terrorize the conquered into submission.

Nothing the US has ever done in any war comes close to one tenth of what Japan did in WWII.


59 posted on 08/27/2004 8:17:49 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: Fishing-guy; AmericanInTokyo

Bump


60 posted on 08/27/2004 8:19:28 PM PDT by Incorrigible (immanentizing the eschaton)
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