From: "Rindler Sigurd" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan References: <3F3250EC.C97701CB@yahoo.co.jp> Subject: Re: Japan and Germany Lines: 34 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: news.uncensored-news.com Message-ID: <3f32d5ac$1_7@news.uncensored-news.com> X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@uncensored-news.com Send only the header of the offending post, DO NOT attach any file. X-Comment: NOTICE: Uncensored-News.Com does not condone, nor support, spam, illegal or copyrighted postings. X-T.O.S.: http://www.uncensored-news.com/terms.html Date: 7 Aug 2003 22:41:49 GMT Organization: Uncensored-News.Com $9.95 Uncensored Newsgroups. Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf2.xephion.ne.jp!feed2.sphere.ad.jp!feed1.sphere.ad.jp!giga-nspixp2!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!uinet.or.jp!passion.nalgo.co.jp!news-out.superfeed.net!propagator2-maxim!feed-maxim.newsfeeds.com!feed.uncensored-news.com!news.uncensored-news.com!news.uncensored-news.com!not-for-mail Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:4165 > 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. ______________________________________________________________________ Posted Via Uncensored-News.Com - Still Only $9.95 - http://www.uncensored-news.com <><><><><><><> The Worlds Uncensored News Source <><><><><><><><>