Go to Japan, as I have numerous times, and travel by train. You will find that the Japanese school children are often on trains taking field trips. If they see you, most likely they will engage you and their pitch almost always is: “Why did you bomb us? and promise you won’t ever do it again!” The Japanese still don’t acknowledge what they did in the years in the run up to Pearl Harbor and the fact that they attacked us. Talk about indoctrination of their children with the untruthful narrative that America started WWII with Japan, and that somehow Pearl Harbor was a “response.”
Wow, that is interesting. I’m going there next spring for the first time.
[ Go to Japan, as I have numerous times, and travel by train. You will find that the Japanese school children are often on trains taking field trips. If they see you, most likely they will engage you and their pitch almost always is: “Why did you bomb us? and promise you won’t ever do it again!” The Japanese still don’t acknowledge what they did in the years in the run up to Pearl Harbor and the fact that they attacked us. Talk about indoctrination of their children with the untruthful narrative that America started WWII with Japan, and that somehow Pearl Harbor was a “response.” ]
If you go to a Germany and Ride the train you might meet a young “german” who will ask you if you worship a pedophile moon god like they do and if you say you don’t, you will never have to worry about having a headache again, ever...
All three of my daughters attended local public elementary school in Japan from grades 1-6. I reviewed their text books. Pearl Harbor is mentioned and underemphasized, Hiroshima and Nagasaki are overemphasized but understandable as they affected Japan far more than they did us.
What I found most interesting however, was that the Japanese text book version of American history was far more pro-American and, in many cases, more detailed than ours.
Well the good news is that the Chinese will pretty much keep the Japs from getting uppity again.
Well we did sail into Tokyo Bay in 1853 and threaten to shell them unless they agreed to trade with us.
Despite us having dropped the world’s first and only nuclear devices on Japan, the Japanese still got off much too easily from their criminal behavior in WW II. There were no Nuremburg trials, no public punishments of war criminals to speak of, no “Bushido (Nazi) Hunters”. The monster that tortured Louie Zamperini and his fellow captives died in bed.
when was the last time you visited Japan? and how often in the last 20 years? and where in Japan did you go?
Many trips to Japan I have had in the last 30 years and never, when I encountered groups of students, did they EVER ask me “why did you bomb us”. Their questions were always about American places and American celebrities, with them wanting to know if I was familiar with various American places or people. No asked “why did you bomb us”.
My reply would be to ask a question to answer their question....”Why did we work to restore your nation and give you back your independence; should we not have killed your emperor and left your nation a burning wreck?” (and then go silent and walk away).