Personally this one #26 posted by lexico and also various ones
(which I never thought of)
with regards to affects on individuals and their communities
of war in general should be part of history/civics/social studies
classes throughout the world, not only in Japan. Such stuff
is missing from US education as well. The reality is ignored &
war is glorified and as just explosions and bloody movies.
Not that I'm against these movies. I think the glorification
comes from else where.

26. The internal logic of Pan Asian Commonwealth Sphere, how it was to benefit Imperial Japan, how it was to exploit Asian countries & individuals, how the propaganda was administered, the descrepancy between the ideals and realities of PACS.


#26 Is important I think. Since many an imperialistic war has been launched
on the platform of doing great good for others but only to set up "peaceful" relationships in which one dominates over others. (economically of course,
what else are wars about? religion [and racism] is mainly used for self-justification. "god is on my side" "god bless my side" [the British
claimed they were doing others a favor by democra..., err "civilizing"
the "uncivilized". Japanese imperialists claimed to be freeing their
Asian bretheran from European colonialists only to take their place
and used the "trade agreement" mentioned in #26 as their "peace-time"
blue print to justify the domination. i think? do i digress?])




Should war criminals that escaped persecution because they
were useful to the victors, should that be covered in Japanese
history? Examples : Yoshio Kodama & Ryoichi Sasakawa both
were classified as Class A war criminals, yet the United States
secured their release to work for them.

Does German history mention nazi war criminals that the US
helped escape persecution and put to work doing the exact same things?