Disgraceful.
This is an insult of the highest order. I don’t give a G-Damn what the F pre-War Japan looked like. There’s an American warship still sitting in the mud of Pearl Harbor with the remains of over 1,400 young Americans who never stopped being nineteen and the ‘’smiling faces of kimono-clad women’’ is the nation that put them there. Screw the ‘’smiling Japanese’’..
Can’t wait to see the exhibits in Japan showing other views of the Pacific War. Say a model of Nanking, an exhibit on Unit 731. Or how about the Bataan Death March. The Allied prisoners burned alive?
Hell, I’d settle for an admission of their guilt, and factual history books in their high schools!
I gather our leadership never heard of “The Rape of Nanking.”
The Japanese were egocentric monsters.
There is no “Japanese side” to the outrageous and cowardly sneak attack.
We should have stuck with Admiral Halsey’s plan;
“By the time this is over, the Japanese language will only be spoken in Hell!”
Teddy Roosevelt's Secret Deal with Japan: An Interview with James Bradley
Is there now a Japanese thinking that they were right then? This just legitimizes that way of thinking and it is alright to rape other lands in search for resources for home.
Superman’s fault.
My mom was ten years old living at Pearl Harbor during the attack. She got a good view of the Japanese as they strafed her house.
Images of 1930s Japan reflecting: "Political assassinations in Tokyo. Censorship and the stifling of dissent. A nation hungry for oil and other natural resources. Kimono-clad women in department stores and boarding street cars. A smiling Babe Ruth posing for photos with Japanese teenage baseball players while on tour with other American all-stars."...{snip]..."clips from Japanese theater newsreels, including festive scenes of Ruth playing baseball during a tour.
Images of U.S. Japan relations honoring: "a broader, more in-depth view of the Sunday morning attack nearly 70 years ago." after the "passage of time and with " the efforts of Japanese pilots and American survivors" who reached "out to each other and overcome deeply ingrained bitterness.
The problem is not the material or the approach. The problem is it represents a different kind of museum; one that does not belong in a U.S. government museum with a mission to represent the tragedy of the Pearl Harbor attack.
The old museum "was more of a shrine than a place that analyzed a pivotal moment in 20th century history"
And a "shrine" is what a war memorial museum IS SUPPOSED TO BE.
The Marxist/Progressive "historians" from academia HAVE taken over this museum, in a manner like they attempted to do at Ground Zero in New York City.
"Abe told The Associated Press in an interview before his death in 2007 that Japan's aviators took off from their aircraft carriers that morning believing their government had delivered a declaration of war. He said it was dishonorable and went against Japanese traditions of "bushido," or the way of the samurai, to strike before declaring war.
"Even if you are executing an early morning attack, you may not hurt your opponent if he is sleeping. You must make him stand and then go at him with your sword. This is bushido," Abe said in 2006. The assault "violated our nation's ideals. I felt bad," he said.
If you read the above material to someone of the WWII generation from Korea (which had already been made a Japanese colony for nearly 40 years), the Philippines, or many of the other nations and Islands invaded by Japan in WWII, they'd probably, with anger and sadness, laugh their heads off.