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.