Comments on: Japan rewrites history… again http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2007/04/11/japan-rewrites-history-again-3/ Scuba diving in Okinawa, and all things to do with Japan Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:50:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Big in Japan | History books to change in Japan http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2007/04/11/japan-rewrites-history-again-3/#comment-2735 Big in Japan | History books to change in Japan Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:42:08 +0000 http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2007/04/11/japan-rewrites-history-again-3/#comment-2735 [...] story concerns something I wrote about in my blog a few months ago: namely, the Japanese government pushing forward with plans to reshape the history [...] […] story concerns something I wrote about in my blog a few months ago: namely, the Japanese government pushing forward with plans to reshape the history […]

]]> By: soldave http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2007/04/11/japan-rewrites-history-again-3/#comment-2351 soldave Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:03:58 +0000 http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2007/04/11/japan-rewrites-history-again-3/#comment-2351 This situation is quite different though. Here the government is changing school textbooks so that current and future generations will not know a significant part of their country's history. They are doing this because they don't want Japanese people to know the things that the Japanese military forced a certain, somewhat estranged part of their own population to do. This situation is quite different though. Here the government is changing school textbooks so that current and future generations will not know a significant part of their country’s history. They are doing this because they don’t want Japanese people to know the things that the Japanese military forced a certain, somewhat estranged part of their own population to do.

]]> By: Bim http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2007/04/11/japan-rewrites-history-again-3/#comment-2349 Bim Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:46:00 +0000 http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2007/04/11/japan-rewrites-history-again-3/#comment-2349 Bush and Blair do it every day about Iraq and Afghanistan, so they're certainly not the first! Though I guess there are still some journalists over here and in the States who will ensure the truth also gets out. I was chatting to a couple visiting from Michigan in Covent Garden last weekend (see there are some Brits in London some of the time), and they said they had been telling people they were from Canada rather than the US because of the shame and embarrassment of what Bush had caused. It's very sad. Bim x Bush and Blair do it every day about Iraq and Afghanistan, so they’re certainly not the first! Though I guess there are still some journalists over here and in the States who will ensure the truth also gets out.
I was chatting to a couple visiting from Michigan in Covent Garden last weekend (see there are some Brits in London some of the time), and they said they had been telling people they were from Canada rather than the US because of the shame and embarrassment of what Bush had caused. It’s very sad.

Bim x

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