Okinawa suicides during war downplayed in text books?
The Kyodo News Agency is reporting that the battle for Okinawa during World War 2 will be played down in Japanese history text books.
Japan’s new high school history textbooks modified and played down descriptions of the Japanese army’s role in mass suicides by civilians during the Battle of Okinawa, in line with instructions from education ministry screeners, according to results of the textbook screening process released Friday.
Ministry screeners asked for the first time for changes to descriptions stating that Okinawa residents had been “forced by the Japanese military” into committing mass suicides, leading such phrases to be deleted.
The screeners at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology also requested modifications to passages concerning the dispatch of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces to Iraq and on the number of victims in the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China.
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Hot damn! Now they are whitewashing history concerning war crimes towards their own citizens. You do know there are peace memorials on Okinawa for victims of these forced suicides…
April 1st, 2007 at 1:07 pmApril fools!!
April 1st, 2007 at 5:27 pmThe news went up on 30 March, so I doubt its the fake news. The missing dog statue could have been the April fools joke
April 2nd, 2007 at 5:10 amThe missing Hachiko was fake. This sadly is true.
April 2nd, 2007 at 7:51 amThis is one reason why it is important in preserving history however unpleasant it may be. A lack of criticism for whitewashing their own past foreign involvement now gives way for the revisionists to deny and downplay their own past crimes against their own taxpaying citizens.
Soon it will be a matter of time before they start promoting the idea that the Ainu wanted Japan to turn Hokkaido into a Japanese prefecture with no objections…
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:04 amSay everyone, JAPUNDIT is about Japan, not the U.S. If you want to talk about the U.S. and its relations with Japan, fine. But it has been long standing JAPUNDIT policy to delete any comments about U.S. politics or policies that are not directly related to Japan.
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