Since I have done extensive research for writing a novel I have discovered the Japan history books teach their children the allies and China started the war. They characterize the Japanese Armed Forces as the protector of the women and children of Japan. The factor of the murders of countless Chinese men, women, and children is not mentioned. I have found the new doctors in their army were sent to China to carry our horrible experiments with surgery and testing of chemical agents. There were even clinics where Chinese people were dissected by the removal of the arms, legs, and opening the victims up to remove their intestines, while they were still alive and screaming.
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if you were the leader of a country, wouldn't you try to make that particular country look good in the eyes of its citizens? that is exactly what happenes with every history, not with only that of Japan.
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Because they want to have had glorious past and that is why they exaggerate their past!
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The same reason American History books do the same about Indians, blacks, and a lot of other things. . . progressive brainwashing in order to make the present and future what they think it should be. It never works. Truth always comes out. All it does is make a bigger mess.
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You should read the books in North Korea sometime! Even here in the US, the history books don't always tell the truth. It is sad.
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It is not a matter of concern with one country, Governments of almost all countries do the same and twist the history, which suits their ideas.
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the americans will proberbly do the same for the war in iraq
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An American historian, discussing why southern histories of the Civil War emphasize 'the Lost Cause' rather than slavery in their writing, said that the only thing worse than losing a war is losing a war that was fought for a bad cause. If you lose a war to defend slavery, or to defend overbearing corporate interests as the Japanese did in invading China and then creating the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, then you have to change the story. Because the United States and the Japanese governments have gone to such great lengths to recreate the sort of economic structure in Japan that existed before WWII, in order for it to be legitimate the story must be changed to show the war was actually started for good reasons. For another example, just look at our History Channel and the portrayal of the Vietnam War. I have always said that the men and women who fought in Vietnam have gotten a raw deal and I am glad that the focus is now changing, but the History Channel is becoming ridiculous. The focus is now on only those engagements that the US won and completely ignoring the reasons why American support began to decline, which is complete disinformation to make people believe that protesters were actively collaborating with the Communists to hurt America, with absolutely no legitimate grounds for protesting anything. In another five years, the way things are going, we will start to believe we actually won the Vietnam War. What the Japanese government is doing is certainly outrageous, but it is sadly not unique.
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Part one of your question, it is true Japan did not start the war. Part Two You can not call the atrocity's in China a Holocaust because they are not Jewish At the end of WWII the Prince of Japan was not removed, so they won the war against China, so they have a right to claim what they wish because they are the victors
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Japan is not the only ones guilty of this. The truth often gets blurred. Many of us don't know about all the atrocities that happened in the days of cowboys and indians or some of the things that happened during our revolutionary days. It's sad but that's the way it happens.
