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.
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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................
The Japanese and the Chinese will never be allies. Five thousand years of history make it impossible.
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.
I just read your resume. I'm always glad to see some new non-leftists journalists coming down the pike.
I'm rather hoping they can.
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.
The way I've heard it, our schools are just the reverse, U.S. history books wallow in America-bashing.
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.
I think they still downplayed it when I was in HS in the 60's, though I think some of our massacres were mentioned.
Who different attitude in Germany. Germany tends to feel deep shame about the war, and actively supresses any movement to glorify it.
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.
Uh....what's PC about the German's taking responsibility for their actions?
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.
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.
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