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Thread #80226   Message #1461182
Posted By: GUEST,PETR
14-Apr-05 - 12:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: History books and revisionism...
Subject: RE: BS: History books and revisionism...
of course theres revisionism, even by losers. Japan as the losing nation, still minimizes its role in the war.
Japanese people talk about the crime of Hiroshima or Nagasaki,
(although the firebombing of Tokyo killed far more people over a couple of days)
and yet only after the emperor died was there any attempt to bring up the past atrocities they committed in CHina, Nanjing.., redress for Korean women who were kept as prostitutes for the troops etc,
practising biowarfare experiments on pows, or amputating perfectly good arms and legs just to teach their doctors..

I watched TOra tora tora on (ironically) the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbour, with my Japanese girlfriend at the time and halfway through the movie she turned and said 'you mean Japan started the war?'. It is not taught in school. Sure I know they were drawn into it by the US but they still started it.