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15:40, July 07, 2007 |
Hirosi Tanaka, a professor of Ryukoku University, told Xinhua that Japanese school textbooks'' records about the invasion war are abstract and shallow. "There are few records especially about the sex slavery and the Nanjing Massacre," he said.
A researcher on the issue of Japan''s forced abduction of Chinese laborers as he is, Tanaka often shows newsreel telling history of war in his classrooms. "Few teacher do the same as I do, " he added.
"Young Japanese care about more about examinations and their hobbies than about history," said an editorial writer of the Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan''s major newspapers.
Kawai, a doctor degree student of Tokyo Institute of Technology, said he got to know about Japan''s past invasion of China when he was about ten, but not much, and few of his peers have interest to know more about it.
"In Japan, young people seldom talk about the militarist history," Kawai said. "We are not interested in the Yasukuni Shrine. Only a few want to have a look at it."
Japan''s current young generation grew up in a peaceful era. Compared with history, realistic issues are much more appealing to them. They know what benefits them. Most of them are against Japan ''s past invasion war, and are opposed to the Self-Defense Forces'' joining in wars in the future.
Source: Xinhua
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