Support for Japanese PM collapsing - GoFuckYourself.com

Roger · 04-19-2004, 07:34 PM

The Japanese seem to be getting increasingly worried about there Prime Minister. He's the first PM since WWII to dispatch Japanese troops into a war zone and he seems to have a fanatical admiration for the dead Emperor. He's even rewriting history in school textbooks to make it look like Japan was not an agressor.

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When the Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, appears on television to condemn terrorists and suicide bombers that plague American troops in Iraq, Ayako Nishimura switches it off in anger.

"He's full of contradictions," says the local councillor and peace activist. "One day he says he stands side by side with President [George] Bush in fighting terrorism, and the next he's worshipping some of the worst terrorists that ever walked. How can he keep a straight face?"

Western visitors can regularly be seen wandering around the museum staring slack-jawed at its audacious rewriting of history. In this looking-glass world, suicide bombers are heroes, America is the enemy and the Emperor, supposedly reduced to mortal status after Second World War, is still a deity, directly descended from the sun goddess, Amaterasu.

Here, at least, Japan was not the brutal aggressor but the liberator, fighting to defend itself from the US and European powers and free Asia from the yoke of white imperialism. Imperial troops were not guilty, as most historians suggest, of some of the worst war crimes of the 20th century, but the "normal excesses" of armies everywhere.

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Mr Koizumi also partly speaks for a revisionist movement that has gathered steam in the four years since he came to power. Supporters of this movement have already thrown their support behind the first postwar dispatch of Japanese troops into a war zone.

The revisionists have also been at work at enrolment ceremonies at public schools in Tokyo this week, where dozens of teachers have been disciplined for refusing to stand for the same national flag that fluttered on Second World War warships and tanks across Asia. And they have helped build a grassroots movement to change the teaching of history that would bring textbooks more into line with the arguments on display at Yasukuni.

The movement's leaders want to end Japan's "masochistic" emphasis on its atonement for the war. Nobukatsu Fujioka, a professor of education at Tokyo University, says: "We believe the emphasis on teaching about the wrong that Japan did in the war is leading to the moral decline of our young."

Any Japanese around here who can confirm those allegations?

genomega · 04-19-2004, 07:45 PM

Japanese textbooks have never described japan as the agressor.

Roger · 04-19-2004, 07:47 PM

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Originally posted by genomega
Japanese textbooks have never described japan as the agressor.

oh okay.

chupacabra · 04-19-2004, 07:52 PM

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Any Japanese around here who can confirm those allegations?

yes, its time for our Prime Minister to be pulled out of office, he has pandered to the Amerikan war machine too long now and the japanese people have had enough... a retelling of the happenings in Spain i suppose..

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