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2006-12-16 China-Japan-Koreas

Japan passes measure requiring patriotic education

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Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-12-16 02:04|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Good for them.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-12-16 06:15|| 2006-12-16 06:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Geeze, we'd settle for less UNpatriotic education here in the US...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2006-12-16 08:22|| 2006-12-16 08:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, no, that's kind of scary. Japanese schools are *already* over-regulated and censored in a fashion which would make the Texas Board of Education swoon with envy. The appearance of that raving nutcase Ishihara in the article is another bad sign. Finally, what we're looking at here is a set of symbolic, ugly gestures in lieu of anything useful, like a less restrictive set of legislature-controlled RoE. Plenty of stuff which will alienate anyone who remembers the twenties and thirties, nothing which will do any practical good, and a lot more conservative dicking around with school curricula. At least there doesn't seem to be anything in there about revering the emperor...

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2006-12-16 12:37|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2006-12-16 12:37|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm worried that patriotic education there will exclude from discussion the Japanese role in WW2, in China and Korea, and so on. The Rape of Nanking will be right out.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2006-12-16 13:47|| 2006-12-16 13:47|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm worried that patriotic education there will exclude from discussion the Japanese role in WW2, in China and Korea, and so on. The Rape of Nanking will be right out.

As I understand it, Japanese secondary education system teaches the following history of WWII:

1) A bunch of stuff happened.
2) The US nuked us.

Posted by DMFD 2006-12-16 17:28|| 2006-12-16 17:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Japan already spends quite a bit of time on teaching "how to be Japanese." This is adding on to that.

Most average Japnese don't have the time to care about this stuff they are to busy trying to earn the money needed to survive. I have been told that the common citizen of Japan thinks the nationalist are nuts and on the same level as criminals.

This is something we need to keep an eye on to be sure.

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