The writer often got by a stone sculpture during the three years of work in the United Nations. That is the statue of Catholic Saint Agnes with her broken right limb, scars over her body and deep scratches on the back.

There is an explanation on the introduction board for the broke statue: the broken statue of Saint Agnes was discovered in the Catholic ruins in Nagasaki, Japan. The atomic bomb the US dropped exploded some 500 meters away from the Catholic Church. The scars on the statue were caused by the extremely strong thermal radiation of the bomb.

Dutch author Bluemask compared Japanese attitude towards the Second World War with that of Germany. The author pointed out that the key to the Garman understanding of the Second World War was the moment when the Auschwitz Concentration Camp was discovered instead of the war of Stalingrad or the war of Berlin. The key to Japanese understanding of the Second World War is the Hiroshima atomic bomb instead of the war of the Pearl Harbor or the battle of Midway.

A friend of the writer's told the author that he has discovered there are no photos in Japanese textbooks in which Japanese soldiers killed Chinese. However there are photos in which Hiroshima was destroyed by atomic bomb.

It is right that the war happened 60 years ago brought heavy disasters to the Japanese people. But for the Asian people who suffered Japanese aggression, it is only right for the half of the fact, as Japan is the arch criminal of the war.

The Japanese soldiers were tyrannical fascist implementers when millions of them burned, killed and looted in the areas of Asia and Pacific. Many ordinary Japanese became fascist followers when the entire Japanese islands involved in the swelling tide of the war.

The group of war scenes in the United Nations is only a faction of the war history. Many journalists and the writer would have the same feelings when talking of the statue of Saint Agnes.

In another axis country of the Second World War -- Germany there comes a voice telling the hardship the common people suffered in recent years. As a result, Germany has won understanding from the international society. Why do the Japanese who set up for making reflections on itself can hardly win such understanding?

Several years ago the writer had an opportunity to visit Nuremberg. The staff workers in the newly built "Literature Center of Nazi Assembly Site" told me that they often organized experts to tell students the Nazi organization and its way of propaganda. There is such a saying on the brochures of the center: the intention to "organize discussions is aimed at helping primary and middle school students understand clearly the demagogic methods."

The local government holds a "fascination and horror" show in the reception hall of the Zeppelin parade ground in order to tell people how the Nazi perplexed the common people. The show says many Nazi youth delegations came here for assemblies and parades.

After the Second World War Nuremberg became the "city of judgment". The judgment let the world, also the German people, know the heinous and sinful colors. Judging from now that was only one aspect of the reviews. Why did so many ordinary people conscientiously become Nazi followers and voluntarily participate in the inhuman massacre?

The theme of "fascination and horror" is a warning itself. Nazi was not only of horror, but also of attraction that makes people's mind confused, and the horror forces won the attraction through the fascination.

The German review surpasses the trial of the war criminals, going the depth of humanity and national culture. It lets the German common people who were mad Nazi followers produce sense of penitence from the bottom of their heart. It is just such a review that Germany has pursued and judged the Nazi war criminals to the present.

When viewing Japan in turn, its reviews over the past, after the war, have been far away from what Germany has made. The Japanese fascist militarism is far more than the German Nazi's and the fascination that makes ordinary Japanese people confused is not less than the German Nazi's.

It is certainly very fearful for the madness and barbarity under the instigation of fascists. However, it is more fearful that the barbarity implementers at that time have not deeply recognized the reasons for the madness and barbarity.

The explosion of the atomic bomb has replaced the reviews of the "fascination and horror", which makes them easy to find a pretext for covering their historical scars as if the madness of dozens of years ago would not belong to them.

That is the reason why some Japanese are still praising the war criminals. They are continuously revising and distorting history by modifying textbooks through making use of the victims' psychology among the Japanese public. The latter is the social basis for the former to be rampant.

There will be no apology from the bottom of their heart if without deepening reviews of the whole people. It is not possible to do away with the soil for growing right wing forces, which will make the once downtrodden Asian people more anxious about the Japanese future.

By People's Daily Online