"Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message news:<be80pe$20ds6$1@ID-105084.news.dfncis.de>...
> masayuki yoshida wrote:
> > "John Yamamoto-Wilson" <john@rarebooksinjapan.com> wrote in message
> > news:<be6hq1$1q55i$1@ID-169501.news.dfncis.de>... 
> >> masayuki yoshida wrote:
> >> 
> >>>> Even Fukuyama was carpet bombed, with (they include injuries) a
> >>>> casualty 
>  count
> >>>> of 80,000. Lack of media or public attention and a focus on the
>  A-bombings,
> >>>> particularly of Hiroshima, has contributed to this ignorance or
> >>>> apathy 
>  among
> >>>> Japanese. Many even forget the Tokyo firebombing.
> >>> 
> >>> As far as the majority of contemporary Japanese is a post-war
> >>> generation, using the word 'forget' is not appropriate.  You mean
> >>> failing to recall person's real experience by the term?
> >> 
> >> Perhaps what Eric means is something like "many teachers forget to
> >> teach 
> >> their students" about such things. I forget what percentage of
> >> Japanese 
> >> twenty-somethings didn't know that Japan had fought a war on the
> >> same side 
> >> as Germany and against the United States in a recent survey, but it
> >> was 
> >> rather depressingly high. And even in this newsgroup there have been
> >> numerous gaffes by Japanese people who clearly have a very hazy idea
> >> of what 
> >> actually went on in the 1930s and 40s.
> >> 
> >> Still perhaps that's a tradition in itself - the "floating world" -
> >> only now 
> >> it's a world of karaoke, pachinko and shopping sprees, and the
> >> realities of 
> >> history all seem very far away...
> > 
> > What you and Eric want to say in this thread may be so simple that I
> > will rephrase as follows:  Contemporary Japanese should learn what
> > their own nation did as an invader during the war times.  However, how
> > to teach history is not so simple.  If you tell us what of Japanese
> > war history you want to teach Japanese students, it would be
> > appreciated.
> 
> Does Japan have the legend of Flashdance?

What do you mean by this implication?  I want to answer your question,
but it seems beyond my ability of interpreting English words.  Be
aware of my being native Japanese.

Masayuki