Ryan Ginstrom wrote:

> > in article 3F056B68.8ACCF778@yahoo.co.jp, Eric Takabayashi at
> > > Do you remember this guy?
> > >
> > > http://tinyurl.com/g0su
>
> "Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
> news:BB2C1F19.4299%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
> > Eric,
> >
> > Thanks for the links.
>
> Hmm, I read the link, and I think he mistakes ignorance for conspiracy.

I believe the average Americans and Japanese are not being told such things for
a reason. In the case of Japan, it is to keep the Hiroshima A-bombing at the
head of their victimization. Even the A-bombing of Nagasaki takes back seat.
And in Hiroshima, you will not hear much about the bomb detonating across the
street from the headquarters of the 6th Army, on the grounds of Hiroshima
Castle, or 70% of the casualties being military. There is just vacant land and
a little plaque on the ground to mark the location of the military
headquarters.

No, Japanese cannot be allowed to know too much about those things or why the
war occurred, or they might not feel so much like victims.

And if Americans knew about how their fathers and grandfathers in WWII in cases
weren't behaving much different from the enemy, they might lose their sense of
justice as well. It's pretty obvious that viewers in Japan were getting a lot
more balanced view of what happened to ordinary people in Iraq than what people
in the US did with their flag waving, government mouthpiece news media.