Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!tky01nn01fe0.sonytelecom.ad.jp!giga-nspixp2!spinnewsgate!attnet-tokyo!not-for-mail From: Scott Reynolds Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Gifu bombing anniversary? Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:02:43 +0900 Organization: JENS Internet Service Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <3F05CA44.9F142BE8@yahoo.co.jp> <545bd492.0307041729.584a4fdd@posting.google.com> <545bd492.0307051812.607d5677@posting.google.com> <3F07F013.E46BCFF@yahoo.co.jp> <545bd492.0307070342.5c188a47@posting.google.com> <3F0978A4.BC45EAB5@yahoo.co.jp> <545bd492.0307071954.14752f7e@posting.google.com> <3F0AC414.9E2A756A@yahoo.co.jp> <3F0ACA70.9B4C3D69@yahoo.co.jp> <3F0C0317.960BAF23@yahoo.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: 41.pool3.dsl8mtokyo.att.ne.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp 1057802564 3096 165.76.163.41 (10 Jul 2003 02:02:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsadm@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 02:02:44 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en,ja In-Reply-To: <3F0C0317.960BAF23@yahoo.co.jp> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:2558 On 7/9/2003 8:57 PM, Eric Takabayashi wrote: > Scott Reynolds wrote: >>(I honestly don't know. My son does not have >>"Peace studies" at his school and I can say that from what I have seen >>of his textbooks and tests, and from talking with him, they do not seem >>to be trying to instill in him any sort of victim mentality.) > > Then what is his opinion of what happened during the first half of the 20th > century in the Pacific and why, if I may ask? My guess is that he thinks that a dispute between Japan and the US and its allies escalated into a full-scale war, which had negative consequences for Japan. I don't get the impression that he has been indoctrinated with a particular point of view. >>Anyway, the balance that we seem to agree is presently lacking ought to >>be added to the Peace studies curriculum, > > But you just said your son do "peace" studies. How . . . convenient. Yes. Lucky him. >>it seems to me. Trying to add >>it to the straight history courses would only mean that something else >>would need to be left out. I'd hate to see the kids have to give up on >>learning about, say, the Genpei War or the Ashikaga Shogunate because >>they had to set aside a couple weeks > > Part or half of "six pages" is hardly a couple weeks. Considering your son has NO > "peace" studies to begin with, and your unwillingness to add it to the texts or > history curriculum leads me to ask if you want them to seriously hear about it at > all. I'd rather they not get anything at all (beyond the bare facts) if the alternative is heavily slanted "peace studies." -- _______________________________________________________________ Scott Reynolds sar@gol.com