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In our History 2 classes (Asia and the world), we just finished discussing about WW2. our professor, who happened to have encountered a lot of Japanese in his travels, said that most of the post-war generations in Japan know so little about what really happened during the war... He said that they know only about the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombing, and don't even know about how the Japanese have been agressive then, esp. to their Asian neighbors (i.e. comfort women, grils abducted, and kept as sex slaves by the Japanese military). This is because their government, through the Ministry of Education, checks all study materials (like text books) so that the younger generations wouldn't know of their gov's malevolence during the war. Lack of such knowledge would lead to the post war generations' acceptance of their country's remilitarization. This also can be evident in how anime can be so violent, and the use of technological warfare, like the ones in old robot anime, like voltes V or diamos. As a person who likes Japanese culture, I'm still very shocked at what my prof said. What do you think about this?
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that is an irony of japan but remember anything that happen in the past will happen again in the future i know that they did some very cruel actions like what you said that is the truth they tried to deny it but that is their down fall they conduct bacteria experiment on ALIVE humans killed innocent people rape women and children *sigh* what an irony but in my country one prime minister apologized on behalf of japan on their action in the past and being a christian contry we accepted their apology beacuse that is God's way even He was kiled by men He forgave them  --> |
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which country is a "christian contry"? 
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by Feo Muchacho
on 2006-08-29 15:06:40 |
I'm glad I live in a country where we the people are big enough to admit and teach our children about our history, the good and the bad without fear that our own self image will be tarnished. God bless the U.S for giving me such a privelage as to know of its faults, past and present.  Japanese girls love Darth Vader...... |
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by night_link
on 2007-06-13 14:15:11
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It makes me so sick that so many people are ignorant of that. Most often, teachers in US only talke about events like the Rape of Nanjing for like 2 minutes and say it was bad. It pisses me off. Japanese soldiers did more than just rape and kill children and conduct experiments. They'd bury people alive and force rapes between family members. Give packages of candy laced with poison to hungry kids. Have contests to see who can cut off the most heads. It's not shocking; it's disgusting at how much ignorance people have about this. |
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In Japanese schools, history classes end just before WW2 and then don't really pick up until reconstruction. The Japanese gov't is often criticized for it's institutional censorship and lack of general education of the acts it committed before and during WW2. It's not really the young people's fault for being ignorant, there is a gov't policy to deliberately not educate them. History is gutted, texts from that time are banned. There was no real way for Japanese people who remain IN Japan to learn more about it, until the Internet. And even then, they have to look for it, and read it in English. The gov't makes it deliberately very difficult for people to learn about it on their own unless they leave. Every few years a new or revised history textbook comes out in Japan, gov't approved, that is always uniformly denounced by supporters of education around the world because it skips over and glosses over WW2. |
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haiz~ I think everyone has the right to know and to be educated about the WW2. Recently in my country, documentary of the WW2 is being reshown on the TV and all the cruelty that Japanese did to the Chinese, aroused hatred to the Jap as how can they be so cruel?!? But in the end they suffer because of the nuclear bombs which ends the war immediately. Nuclear effect kill anyone in the bomb site and affect people near the bomb site. Because of the radiation, people affected start to have diseases and pregnant women gave birth to deformed child which is unbearable. Thus, let's all these be a lesson to all the people around the world that WAR itself is a detestable thing and hope that everyone will help in promoting world peace and prevent a WAR start as every WW start begin between conflicts between 2 parties and one's people ambition of domination. |
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i think that all the country who participated in the war are to blame  |
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by night_link
on 2007-06-21 12:25:19 (edited 2007-06-21 12:27:40)
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What about who struck first Faye? You're offering them the same conditions as countries on the other side? Some just deserve to be blamed more. You don't know at all what the Japanese really did. Just take a look at the photos taken that the Japanese government insist is fabricated shit. Forfun, it's all nice and easy to say that but that's only because after what had happened and you expect things to run as smoothly as peace? China and Korea are never going to forgive Japan for what they did. You make it sound like it's all ok and we can all live in peace now. You too don't know either. |
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Hey come on, night link, no need to be vindictive or anything. Look, Faye and Forfun were just putting forth their opinions. Come on, we all know about the war crimes committed by the Japanese. We know about the Philippines occupation, the POW camps, the horrendous bioweapon experiments...everything. And that's just the secret part of it. It IS kinda sad, the way people have just forgotten what happened in the years between 1937 and 1945. But don't you think they've paid for it enough? The two A-bombs killed 200,000 men, women and children. They devastated an entire nation and shocked the world into a 60-year old silence. Even today, no one dares oppose America as it heedlessly tramples through the world. Also, every successive Japanese prime minister has apologized to the Chinese and Koreans for their actions. What more do u want? If u really wanna blame someone, blame Hideki Tojo and the militarists, who forced Japan to fight a war "they could not win".   --> |
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History is written by the victors of war. While admittedly, Japan did commit atrocities (ie. Unit 531 i think) without a doubt, the "Rape of Nanking" is one that is questionable. There are quite a few documents written by westerners during the purported period of this event which indicate that (basically as close to real-time you could get back then) the procession into Nanking was rather quiet and uneventful. These same reporters a few years later made a 180 in terms of what they claimed they reported, casting into doubt what happened during that time. However, this is something that isn't taught in the states and it's something my prof became very upset when I brought it up in lecture (which he also had no rebuttal for except for guilt by association based on what other atrocities Japan had committed). Not denying that atrocities were commited...Bataan death march, biological experiments, etc did happen. However, it can't be denied that some claimed atrocities were grossly overestimated or fabricated either. Japanese texts from 10 years ago (of which I actually learned from) did actually include a pretty significant section in regards to Nanking, though 531 wasn't mentioned. I suspect it's partially because the US benefitted from 531's biologics program, post-war and also the main reason it's not brought up in mandatory education texts in the US. The problems between Korea/Japan stem far before WWII, but mid 20th century probably struck a permanent wedge in any reconciliation between the 2 countries. |