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Does high school in Japan educate students on the facts of WW2?

  • WW2 is taught prominently during my high school history class, people say this is not taught in Japan, is that the case or do the facts get altered? Many people here seem to think Germany actually killed more people during WW2! Germany: approximately 6 million Jews killed, 20 million Russians killed Japan: approximately 7 million (Filipinos, Malays, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Indonesians and Burmese combined), 23 million ethnic Chinese http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n22/chalmers-johnson/the-looting-of-asia

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    Yes, we do. Japanese students learn about the 20th century history not only from their textbooks but from the news papers, TV programs and the youtube videos. Many of them are fairly informed about Japan-Sinno War (1895), Japan-Russo War (1905), the result of WWI, including the Treaty of Versailles (1919), and the subsequent Japanese militarism into Manchuria (1932) and Chinese mainland (1937) until our attack on Pearl Harbor (1941). In general, Japanese students are more knowledgeable about world history than American and Chinese students; otherwise, they cannot graduate from high school. Their college exams require deeper and wider knowledge about world history. They have fairly balanced knowledge about WWII compared with your very limited and deviated crap.

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Yes, we learn not to wake sleeping giant and just hide behind internet and snipe. Deviated crap included on curriculum too.

Do US high school educate students on (i) the massacre of native Americans, (ii) the massacre of Vietnamese, (iii) the boming of hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians, (iv) killing of many innocen Iraqis, Afgans and Pakistanis, and (v) sending many great people to electric chair during the era of McCather craze and many other cruel things Americans did to fellow Americans and other people?

Nonmai Ptak

The events, the date and the summary in history are a history and are taught in schools. However, "6 million Jews killed, 20 million Russians killed", such things without any data or proof are NOT a fact and they should NOT be written in school text books. But students should be told any possibilities of history in their class. Japan is not a subjective but "data" based objective society.

Joriental

WW2 is taught prominently during my high school history class, people say this is not taught in Japan, -- people who say this (not taught in Japan) are usually Chinese people who are irrationally patriotic with hidden agendas, or are simply trolls trying to start fights.

Depends on the teachers. Generally, teachers belonging to the Nikkyoso have always been very enthusiastic about teaching history based on what right-wingers call a masochistic view of history. My social study teacher in high school was one of them and we were forced to see lots and lots of grotesque pictures during classes. You know. Pictures of disemboweled women and things like that. I remember I had as many sleepless nights thereafter.

Tama

They glaze over it.

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