From: pchang@pdxgp2 (Paul Chang)
Subject: Re: A ? about textbooks -- was (Re: An open letter to the Emperor Akihito of Japa)
Keywords: textbook, truth, source?
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:45:24 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.224719.18778@physics.ucla.edu> aoki@physics.ucla.edu (ken aoki) writes:
>In article <1992Aug25.204110.10744@ichips.intel.com> pchang@pdxgp2 (Paul Chang) writes:
>[stuff not related to textbooks deleted]
>>
>>Japanese politicians are too ashamed to admit the war crimes by their predecessors. They
>>only rewrote their history textbook that Japan "entered and exited" China. A few years
>>later they will probably say "China started the war then Japan fought back by entering
>>and exiting China".
>>
>
>This is not a flame and you can flame my ignorance
>if you want. I have heard this statement soooo many times
>and I don't know what the source is. Could you or 
>someone please tell me?
>
>The only non-incident I can remember is around 12 years or so ago
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>where there was a big news that got into the major Japaneese papers
>that out of the 7 textbooks or so they had inspected
>one of them had changed 'invasion (shin-ryaku) into China' 
>to 'intrusion (shin-nyu)' under govt pressure. 
>(Other books, if my memory is OK, used 'invasion')
>A little while later, the newspaper I saw stated that 
>the particular textbook had always used 'intrusion' so there
>was no change. The story was that the press club had alotted
>various textbooks to various reporters and one of them had goofed.

I think we were talking about the same thing. I was never aware of the latter development.
Thank you for bringing that up.

>
>Is this the story people are referring to or something else?
>Or am I taking the word 'rewrote' too literally?
>Don't get me wrong; the Japanese textbooks sure do have problems
>and government censoring is a biiiiiig problem (at least in history
>texts).  However, I am curious and more importantly,
>I would like the discussions, arguments and flames to be based on truths.
>
>Also Mr. Chang, for instance, seems to suggest that it is an ongoing
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>thing. I have never heard about things like that since then. 
>It would have gotten major press, I think.
>Has anything happened recently?
>

Please note that I used the word "probably". It is a hypothesis, which means it MAY or
MAY NOT be something that will happen in this context.

I didn't intend to start an argument on the textbook thing. It may not be a good example
to show how some Japanese politicians try to FORGET the war crimes by JIA during WWII.

.....
>
>>>
>>>4) There was no jointed academical research to prove the claim about the 
>>>numbers of victims in Nanjing  or Chinese and the other government
>>>has never claimed Japanese government to correct the what they believ the false
>>> in the Japanese TEXT book showing the undenialble description with vivid
>>> evidence.  Nishimura-san mentioned that he has seen several
>>>books which gave different numers of victims in Nanjing.
>>>
>>
>>No matter how disgusting the photos are, some people can always claim that the photos
>>are faked. Why don't you try to get some documentaries produced by the Japanese Army.
>>I have seen documentary films shot by the Japanese during the Nanjing massacre. They were
>>captured by the Allied Forces after Japan surrendered. I don't think a joint research
>>is needed to prove the authenticity of such bloody evidence. Or you still can argue that
>>those films were made by some Chinese Nationalists by using a camcorder.
>
>
>-- 
>                        Kenichiro Aoki. aoki@physics.ucla.edu


The most important thing, which I didn't emphasize, is that there are too many bloody
evidences that can be used to prove what JIA did. Those who suffered and their families
may forgive Japan's war crimes someday. But I WILL NOT forget the harms and damages done
by those slaughters.


PC