Eric Takabayashi <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> mtfester@netscape.net wrote:

>> masayuki yoshida <ysd_m@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:

>> > 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.
>>
>> Reminds me of what my wife told me about taking history class. They'd
>> spent the year going through the class, and ran out of time at about
>> the time they just finished the beginning of the Showa Era. The teacher
>> told the class "I'm very sorry. Please ask your parents about this."
>>
>> :-)

> Whaaat? Didn't they get to the suffering in the Battle of Okinawa or the
> A-bombings? Not even the firebombings or just the A-bombing of Hiroshima?
> Didn't the children have to spend literal weeks painting banners or murals
> calling for world peace, or put on a skit or sing songs during some school
> functions to magically create peace somewhere else in the world where
> people are suffering today?

> Those teachers didn't do their jobs.

Mebbe not, but she can name all the Emperors.

Mike