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?

-- 
Kevin Gowen
"The US economy accounts for about one-third of global GDP-greater than
the next four countries combined (Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom
and France)."  
- "Advancing the National Interest: Australia's Foreign and Trade
Policy White Paper", Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade