Japanese still whitewash their own execrable history in school textbooks

It wasn't enough to be the biggest a-holes of the 20th century, now
they are going for the 21st

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1556632,00.html

April 06, 2005

Japan faces storm over 'rewriting' war history
From Leo Lewis in Tokyo

A REVISED edition of a controversial Japanese school history book has
provoked furious protests from China and South Korea and accusations
that Tokyo is whitewashing its militaristic past.

Chinese supermarkets even began a boycott of Japanese foods after the
book, produced by a right-wing publishing house, was approved by the
Japanese Ministry of Education yesterday.

The book removes all mention of the Japanese military's use of Chinese
and Korean women as sex slaves, plays down the death toll of the 1937
Nanjing Massacre in China and simplifies descriptions of Chinese and
Korean workers being forcibly shipped to Japan during the Second World
War.

The South Korean Foreign Ministry said that the chapter dealing with
Japan's prewar imperial record amounted to a "serious distortion of
history".

It questioned "whether it will be possible for future generations to
forge ahead in the direction of peace, coexistence and co-operation".

The Chinese Foreign Ministry summoned the Japanese Ambassador to
protest and called the book a "poison for Japan's younger
generations", and said it "tries to exonerate the Japanese
imperialists from the crimes they committed".

The Association of Chinese Retailers called for a boycott of Japanese
products, specifically Asahi Beer and the food giant Ajinomoto,
because senior advisers to those companies sit on the Japanese Society
for Textbook History Reform — a panel with notoriously nationalistic
views. Fuso Publishing, which produces the books, accuses mainstream
Japanese history textbooks of "self-denigration".

For decades, Japanese textbooks have caused anger in Asia, with
critics saying that they present too uncritical a view of their
country's past. When this book was first approved, in 2001, South
Korea recalled its Ambassador for nine days in outrage.

The latest row comes at a time of great tension between Japan and its
two neighbours. Seoul is furious over Tokyo's claim to two tiny
islands lying between the countries. Beijing is embroiled in an
acrimonious battle with Tokyo over resource rights in the northern
Pacific and bitterly opposes Japan's ambition to win a permanent seat
on the United Nations Security Council.

The Japanese Vice-Foreign Minister urged the Chinese Ambassador
yesterday to secure the safety of Japanese nationals in China, after a
week of anti- Japanese street protests in Chengdu and Shenzhen, in
which a Japanese-owned supermarket was vandalised.

Junichiro Koizumi, the Japanese Prime Minister, urged South Korea
yesterday to exercise self-restraint, saying: "South Korea and Japan
have a different stance, but it is not good to widen confrontation."

 

My grandsons history book has WW 11 down to two paragraphs.

 

ww11? damn i musta missed the 9 after ww2, who was in them and did we win?

 

From BBC News 2004-01-13
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3391871.stm

"He [Harold Shipman] was the UK's most prolific convicted serial killer, but
always denied his crimes."

 

Only retards (& chnks) give a fk about Jap textbooks

 

The thing is South Korea never pinpointed exactly what they were
having problems from those textbooks.

Apparently, South Koreans do not know what they are talking about,
just parroting after what China says.

Korea is wanting to go back to the pre-Japanese-colonization era.

Koreans miss kissing asses to China.

 

Did Japs invade China ?

http://www.worldstatesmen.org/China.html#Manchuria

 

Did Chinks invade Tibet?

http://www.tibet.com/WhitePaper/white2.html

 

Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth
by Michael Parenti
http://www.swans.com/library/art9/mparen01.html

 

Did Yanks invade Grenada?

 

http://www.tibet.com/WhitePaper/white2.html

An interesting account.

As is sometimes the case with situations where a government
is forced to cede soverignty to a conquering government,
the Chinese claim to Tibet is justified using all kinds of
historical arguments, with facts that don't support their
argument conveniently left out or distorted.

In reality, the argument largely reduces to "because we said
so". It is wildly dishonest and only convinces people who want
it to be true.

 

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History is always written by the winners to justify their actions. The
fact that Japan did not, means they're breaking the rules.

Let's discuss the ethnic cleansing in America 200 years ago. Or the
military adventures abroad in the last century. Or the actions time and
time again by europeans against their own people and africans, asians,
or in the middle east etc.

Has the US ever made ammends for the slaughter of native americans? No?
I thought not. Has Britain ever apologised for the Scottish clearances
or the way they treated the Irish? No?

Some come on - just because America needed an excuse for all these acts
of aggression you're suggesting the US did not know about Pearl Harbor
in advance? ROFL! WMDs? - Just one more lie.

Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone.

Now bugger off Will Dockery and post your drivel in the appropriate
newsgroups

 

The US invaded Mew Mexico , Texas, Arizona , Utah , California , Oregon
, Washington state ,
Colorado, Montana,Dokata .

Freddie = Jap , or a Jap hidding behind an American screen .

 

Tibet has been under the Chinese protection since the Ming Dynasty and
the Qing Dynasty ,

During the Qing Dynasty , the Chinese Manchu emperor gave Tibet
protection from the British invasion in exchange for the Tibet's
influence in the Manchu 's imperial religion .

 

There have been a few notable times "since the Ming and Qing
dynasties" that the Chinese didn't do a very good job of preventing
military attacks on the Tibetans. Why not?

 

" that Chinese didn ' t do a very good job of preventing military
attacks on the Tibet .
Why not ? "

Because the Qing emperor had funding problems for its military, because
of Corruptions in the tax collection systems .

Confucianism = Corruptions .

The Brits had modern weapons .
The Brits wanted to control Tibet and Xinjiang because of Minerals .


The Brits in Tibet even gave Manchu money to buy arms to fight the
Russians in Xinjiang .

 

Frreddie wants to imply the Japs had an historical lien to the land of
Korea and China,

That was why Freddie wanted to equate the invasion of Tibet by the
Chi-Coms to the Japs invasion of Korea and China .

Freddie= a Jap , or a Jap behind an American identity .

 

The Chinese invasion of Tibet and the Japanese invasion of Korea and China
were both attempts at colonial expansion, and not in the best interests of
the people invaded.

 

The Chi-Coms invasion of Tibet is for the Good of the Tibetan people.

Old Tibetans oligarchy was all Nazi .

 

The PROC invasion of Tibet was no more for the Good of the Tibetan people
than the Japanese invasion of China was for the Good of the Chinese people.

I could understand your patriotism making you want to believe differently,
but that is no different than the biased view Kaz has of the Japanese
Imperial Army.