Japan honouring War dead, right, or wrong?

**bob10** · 27th February 2014, 07:23 PM

Considering Japan does not teach their children about WW2, should this happen? Bob

BBC News - Remembering Japan's kamikaze pilots

**bob10** · 27th February 2014, 07:26 PM

And, what Japanese history lessons leave out, Bob

BBC News - What Japanese history lessons leave out

**lyonsy** · 27th February 2014, 10:05 PM

Honoring your country's war dead is a basic right of any country
But they also need to rember what they were ordered to do and did. Its same as Germany

**jonesfam** · 27th February 2014, 10:30 PM

Not the solders fault what those in power decide.
The whole culture & education of Japan was different before WW2 so, by all means, honour those that gave their lives.
Jonesfam

**DeeJay** · 27th February 2014, 10:42 PM

Bob,
The only common thing between those two articles was that they were about WW2 & Japan.
Two totally different subjects in the one thread..

**Jojo** · 28th February 2014, 12:56 AM

Every soldier fights for a righteous cause. It is only the winning one who decides whose cause is more righteous.
Let them remember all the lives lost needlessly!

mikehzz · 28th February 2014, 04:24 AM

History...if you invade other countries and you don't win, then you are an arsehole. Churchill had a good quote, "History will be kind to me because I will write it".

schuy1 · 28th February 2014, 06:31 AM

I do not begrudge the remembering of war dead,The "Honoring" of participates that wantonly disregarded the rules of war in regard to civilians and captured I do question, The convenient overlooking of their history in the school system is also questionable, considering the extant it is done in Germany . The reasoning behind it of course lies with American requirements to have Japan on side for the cold war and to aid the eastern expansion and consolidation of American business ops after the war!( Yeah yeah, Im cynical

) The same reason Russia was allowed to control eastern europe! And dont forget Stalin killed far more of his own than any invading forces did! cheers Scott

**85 county** · 28th February 2014, 06:47 AM

Originally Posted by mikehzz

History...if you invade other countries and you don't win, then you are an arsehole. Churchill had a good quote, "History will be kind to me because I will write it".

and he did and it is

**bob10** · 28th February 2014, 07:42 AM

Originally Posted by DeeJay

Bob,
The only common thing between those two articles was that they were about WW2 & Japan.
Two totally different subjects in the one thread..

I disagree. They are related. The Japanese have cleansed their education system of negative history of WW2, young Japanese have been taught a sterilised version since WW2. Most know nothing of Nanking, for example. There are even 'historians ' who claim it did not happen. Atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers have been omitted from their version of history. Now they want to glorify the Kamakazi, the Divine Wind, young men brainwashed into throwing their lives away, even though the War was lost.

The education of young Japanese , and the glorification of their their War ' heroes' go hand in hand. In that sense, there is indeed a common thread between the two. I'm surprised you could not make the connection. Bob

edit--follow the link to Nanking, then tell me they should be glorified.
The History Place - Genocide in the 20th Century: Rape of Nanking ...

www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/nanking.htm‎

In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city of Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians

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