masayuki yoshida wrote:
> "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 didn't imply anything.

> I want to answer your question,
> but it seems beyond my ability of interpreting English words.  Be
> aware of my being native Japanese.

I want to help you to answer my question, so please tell me which English
word(s) gave you trouble.

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