Posted by Shu Shan on October 07, 1998 at 11:28:06:
In Reply to: History -- A Virtual Mirror posted by Sisal AngelLurver on October 04, 1998 at 23:18:41:
The above is a very accurate and good comment. History is actually just a voice from the past. You can choose to learn from it, but do keep it mind one must not take things at face value.
After World War II there was much unhappiness about the content of history in Japanese textbooks. The writers of the textbooks (for high school students) failed to mention the atrocities committed in China and South-East Asia during the Japanese Invasion. The following is a snippet which I found at a website:
"At a minimum, what the Asian community wants from the Japanese is a full and sincere apology to all of its victims from World War II... A guarantee that the next generation of Japanese schoolchildren will be taught the full extent of wartime atrocities committed by the Japanese... Right now, in Germany, it's against the law not to teach the Holocaust in public schools. Contrast this with Japan, which for decades has systematically covered [Japanese war crimes] up. They whitewashed it from their textbooks."
Iris Chang about the Rape of Nanking
Breaking the Silence
Other sites you can visit (related to the Nanking Massacre) - it was one of the places in China which were more brutally attacked.