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."

Or rather, if at the present time, the teacher should tell your wife
'Please ask your husband about this'.  How are you, Mike?

Masayuki
 
> :-)
> 
> Mike