Should the Rape of Nanking Be in Japanese History Books?

Question

I mean dark side or not don't people have a right to to know about the real history about their country? Germany has their young people learn about the the war crimes commited by the n***s. So shouldn't Japan have their children learn about what the war crimes commited by the Imperial Japanese Empire?

Answer 1

Are you certain that they don't and you are not basing your question on the 1980's claim that the Japanese Ministry of Education had censored it (the source of this later proved to be an incorrect television report)? True, Japan, like many other nations, has difficulty in facing up to their darker history – it is human nature to deny or excuse the more difficult past.

btw History Doctorates should know better than to use such casual racism, but then they should also know that Japan have made several admissions and apologies for war crimes.

Answer 2

Yes, all Japanese should learn about this and the rest of their history, not just the sanitized version in their current books.

Answer 3

For sure.

These things anger me.

I took an American history class a couple years ago in school, and when we got to the chapter about life in the US during WWII, there was NO MENTION of the government moving all Japanese-Americans to reservations.  (I'm American.)

Everyone want to make their own country look better than the others.

Answer 4

Yes

Answer 5

Christopher Columbus never made it to the United States.

That said - the j**s have NEVER admitted to the atrocities they committed in the War. To ANYONE. But we all are supposed to feel sorry for them because of the Bombs.

All Armies, in all wars, have committed atrocities - but the j**s are right up there with the n***s, as well as Mao, Stalin and those leaders who have murdered and otherwise abused their own people.

In this I include the treatment of Native Americans in my own Country - which we are taught about as well as the Japanese internment camps.

Not in this situation. But, I guess apologists come in many guises.

Answer 6

Yes it should!  

Answer 7

Absolutely.  It is part of their history, and their people should know about it.  I know there has been an ongoing controversy over what to include in Japan's textbooks since shortly after WWII, but i believe that a nation should know about it's true past.  On the same note, shouldn't American schools teach about the atrocities committed by Christopher Columbus against Aboriginals in America?

Answer 8

I do not know what kind of curriculum japanese schools have. If they cover the WW2, I guess it should be included along with human experiments, the mistreatment of POWs and other atrocities committed.

Answer 9

What is it with people and rape?