This article caught my eye. Every country has its own conventional view of history which tends to skip over the bad bits, focus on the good bits and portray the country in the best possible light.
According to the article there is a movement in Japan to revise the conventional history leading up to, and including, WWII to paint Japan in a more positive light:
While some of this can be viewed as being somewhat benign, when it comes to refusing to believe some of the most unpleasant parts, I think it's dangerous. For example regarding Korean "comfort women".
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According to the article there is a movement in Japan to revise the conventional history leading up to, and including, WWII to paint Japan in a more positive light:
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In this "true" history of the 20th Century that Mr Tamogami talks of, Japan was not the aggressor, but the liberator. Japanese soldiers fought valiantly to expel the hated white imperialists who had subjugated Asian peoples for 200 years. |
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He declares it "another fabrication", saying: "If this is true, how many soldiers had to be mobilised to forcibly drag those women away? And those Korean men were just watching their women taken away by force? Were Korean men all cowards?" |
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