Japanese history texbooks should definitely mention modern history ...which they don't do at the moment!! Forget the fictional...Jomon period!!
Brief outline of WWII only, without reference to war crimes or atrocities
Japan's military advances in Asia, without the description of the war atrocities
Explanation of the evolution militarism in Japan from Meiji to WWII
Detailed military expansion of Japan, annexation of Korea, Japan's setting up of the Manchurian incident, etc.
The Japanese Army's massacres, rapes and plunder of China and other countries
Japanese biological warfare experiments made on live humans, such as Unit 731
Harsh treatment of POW's (eg. Death Railway) and slave labour used by Japanese zaibatsu
Sexual slavery of tens/hundreds of thousands of Asian and Western women
Mention that the Japanese holocaust cost about 10 to 30 millions lives around Asia
Mention of that 50,000 to 300,000 Chinese died in the Nanking Massacre
Mention of other massacres like Sook Ching, Manilla, Laha, Jinan, etc.
Pictures/videos of atrocities such as the Nanking Massacre
Emphasis on Japan's responsibility for these war crimes
Divine status of the emperor before 1945, and responsibility as supreme commander of the army
Explanation on how Japan has paid reparations and apologised for its war crimes
Explanation on the controversy about the Yasukuni Shrine, and why war criminals should not be worshipped
Other (please specify)
Don't know
Japanese history texbooks should definitely mention modern history ...which they don't do at the moment!! Forget the fictional...Jomon period!!
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