The headline was translated directly using Google, so it is a bit unclear, but this is a poll about the Empire of Japan during World War II.
Kubocho on
wakaranai wtf
few days ago I saw on the NHK a memorial for the japanese soldiers who died in Myanmar and Laos during WWII, and people ccrying, with flowers, the works… yes its like Germany doing a memorial for the SS troops who died in Poland
jhau01 on
Not at all unusual, unfortunately.
I haven’t been to the Yushukan at Yasukuni-jinja since the 1990s but I remember there was a steam engine that was used on the Thai Burma railway. The plaque next to it said, in Japanese, something about the engineering difficulties of building the railway, but made absolutely no mention that the railway was built by prisoners of war and locals who were forced into working on the railroad, and 90 – 100,000 of them died.
More recently, a couple of years ago, I visited the atomic bomb museum in Nagasaki. It was very good and I highly recommend it but, near the end of the route through the museum, there was a discussion about the history and global threat of nuclear weapons, or something like that. It mentioned that “World War II was harsh for people in the Asia-Pacific”, or something similar, but notably failed to mention it was harsh *because* Japan invaded them.
AverageHobnailer on
But but but the Japanese on r/askajapanese assure me they properly teach WW2 history in Japan!
dfebb on
“I don’t know” what, exactly?
Random_182f2565 on
It’s always funny to me how historically just after stop fighting inward they started fighting outward
General-Conflict-784 on
Truly appalling what the education system in Japan has done. How can we rebuild trust with these nations if we don’t take this deadly, offensive history in-between us seriously?
Standard_Pound_2918 on
64% is uneducated, and 48% is vulnerable to manipulation. This is an accomplishment of the education system influenced by the LDP(mainly a right-wing group), language barrier and information Sakoku.
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The headline was translated directly using Google, so it is a bit unclear, but this is a poll about the Empire of Japan during World War II.
wakaranai wtf
few days ago I saw on the NHK a memorial for the japanese soldiers who died in Myanmar and Laos during WWII, and people ccrying, with flowers, the works… yes its like Germany doing a memorial for the SS troops who died in Poland
Not at all unusual, unfortunately.
I haven’t been to the Yushukan at Yasukuni-jinja since the 1990s but I remember there was a steam engine that was used on the Thai Burma railway. The plaque next to it said, in Japanese, something about the engineering difficulties of building the railway, but made absolutely no mention that the railway was built by prisoners of war and locals who were forced into working on the railroad, and 90 – 100,000 of them died.
More recently, a couple of years ago, I visited the atomic bomb museum in Nagasaki. It was very good and I highly recommend it but, near the end of the route through the museum, there was a discussion about the history and global threat of nuclear weapons, or something like that. It mentioned that “World War II was harsh for people in the Asia-Pacific”, or something similar, but notably failed to mention it was harsh *because* Japan invaded them.
But but but the Japanese on r/askajapanese assure me they properly teach WW2 history in Japan!
“I don’t know” what, exactly?
It’s always funny to me how historically just after stop fighting inward they started fighting outward
Truly appalling what the education system in Japan has done. How can we rebuild trust with these nations if we don’t take this deadly, offensive history in-between us seriously?
64% is uneducated, and 48% is vulnerable to manipulation. This is an accomplishment of the education system influenced by the LDP(mainly a right-wing group), language barrier and information Sakoku.