> What do you believe, aside from your war is a political matter, and is not
to be viewed
> from morality, position? Aside from any alleged lack of interest on your
part to admit to
> Japanese wrongdoing, just why do you normally try to avoid such issues?
>


I think it depends on Masayuki's age.The Japanese school system is to blame
for the high number of Japanese "nazis" in our society. The teachers grew up
during this military-dominated era, and they were given lots of power by the
ministry of education... whose business was and is still run by the old boys
network.Remember education minister Fujio, who had to be fired by PM
Takeshita?
In Germany (similarly in Austria) the situation was quite different since
the conservative's (CDU = LDP) power was broken by the socialists (SPD), and
this fact was reflected in education. The old teachers had no other choice
to either hide their pre-war attitudes, retire, or get fired if they didn't
fall in line. Many of them had some "adjustment problems" and solved them by
clever timing their history lessons. Many of my generation (born just after
the war) will tell the same story. The history teachers spent too much time
with the Greeks and Romans, and when they reached the end of the first world
war, it was also the end of the schoolyear...
Our teachers didn't have to face embarrassing questions, and we had to get
our sources elsewhere. There was plenty of anti-nazi literature available.
Young Japanese don't care so much about this subject and neither do young
Germans who can't be made responsible for what their fathers and
grandfathers did. That's at least how I see it.
All the Japanese need to do (if they have the will) is to vote all the LDP
nazis out and vote those in who are not pre-war relics. It's easier for them
to sincerely apologize and mend the wounds of the past.Time will tell
whether this works for the better.



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