McTojo

I think the history of China and Japan should be whitewashed to a point, and I’m sure I’ll “catch flame” for this but the truth needs to be told. In November of 2004 Iris Chang took her own life for reasons that weren’t really made clear. Some could speculate that she suffered from a nervous breakdown; others may say she suffered from depression; whatever it was I was a happy to know that she was no longer around to promote her biase opinions about Nanking ! In short I was glad that another enemy of Japan did the responsible thing…like so many Japanese soldiers who took their own lives out of guilt for the war.

In this generation Heisei 17(year of His Majesty) we live amongst a generation of young people who live their lives in total defiance to the ways of the old, in search for the new. They forever strive to be different and unique amongst their peers trying to find their identity. Most of the young people in Japan have zero knowledge about history outside of Japan and what actually took place during WW2. When stories like General Matsui Iwane, commander-and-chief of the Japanese forces in Nanking, come across the ears of these young people they have this look of bewilderment ? Who is General Iwane, I’ve never heard of him ? From this point, I wonder if I should tell them the truth…but then again if I tell them the truth this would only create more disdain and hatred toward their forefathers; more anti-Japan thinking would permeate across Japan, of course they would try and deny it first. The young generation is facing a crisis already and the last thing they need is to know how aggressive Japan was especially if you take into consideration the number of suicides committed each year by young people who are the only hope and future of Japan !

Another thing that needs to be understood is that China and Korea wish to paint Japans history as a history of war and aggression. China has no interest in Japan apologizing for her past aggressions. What China wants is to see Japan down on her knees crawling around like Germany with record unemployment because they were too busy being a friend of the world while allowing outsiders to come in a take away all of the jobs while leaving good honest Germans out of work for up to five years !

What Japan needs to do is continue developing positive relations with the U.S. and in turn the U.S. will help Japan get a seat on the U.N. Security Council if China doesn’t veto it. Young people need to be encouraged to live !
The government needs to initiate cultural awareness programs by completely doing away with the old education system. Shake-up the Ministry of Education and fire all of the wayward teachers who refuse to stand and sing the Kimigayo because this represents the soul of Japan. I think we should keep the old and incorporate newer methods at the same time.

We don’t need anymore Iris Changs ! and we don’t need anymore people telling Japan how evil they are !!!

Long live the Emperor !

Lachean

You have no interest in truth, only the appearance of things.

I laugh at "monarchs."

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LeftyHenry

WTF?? so you're a Japanese Imperialist?

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AcePylut

Yeah, lets whitewash history. Japan didn't start WW2 - Asia theater. Japan didn't launch a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Japan wasn't nuked.

OOOOPPPSSSSS!!!!!, better get rid of those monuments in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

It's all in the interest of whitewashing history.

So it can be repeated again.

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McTojo

Amen to that brother !

1069

Well, I'm depressed about the crap that white Europeans have done: conquest and colonization, genocide, slavery.
If I think about it too much, the fact of their monstrous DNA coursing through my veins makes me heartsick.
Nevertheless, a 'white wash' would not help.
It might help me personally to feel better about my ancestors and therefore myself, but it would not erase the truth, and if we don't confront and own the atrocities of the past, how will we learn not to repeat them?
It would also be sickeningly dishonorable to the descendants of the victims of said atrocities, if we were just to sweep our ancestors' misdeeds under the rug because they make us feel all icky inside.
These things happened (much like the Rape of Nanking).
The reports are not exaggerated. These things happened, and they were so awful that no embellishment could possibly be worse than the stark truth.
Although we cannot atone for them or make them unhappen, however fervently we might wish to, it is dishonorable to suggest that we should not acknowledge them... and continue to acknowledge them for the indefinite future, until the end of human history.
It is almost inconceivably callous and insensitive to suggest that the victims of these atrocities should be "getting over them by now", a suggestion I've heard made many times, always by the victimizers themselves.

Besides, the past reverberates into the present; in order to understand the state of the society we live in today, we must first understand history and past events; otherwise, life is without context, and makes no sense.

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