mtfester@netscape.net wrote in message news:<be89lc$3jp$1@news.Stanford.EDU>...
> 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."

It would be a common story amongst those who got through classes of
Japanese history in Japanese High schools.  Unlike that, fortunately I
finished read Japanese and world history books cover to cover when I
was in a high school.  Although Eric ALWAYS points out the lack of our
history knowledge, are American people far more knowledgeable about
their own nation's past than Japanese?

Masayuki