mindovermatter at 11:53 AM JST - 8th December

eagerly wanted Japan's support to commit aggression against Iraq without absolving Japan from its previous transgressions

I will give you that... The Iraq Invasion is a stain upon America, but it's Bush's and Cheney's war... Most American's feel resentment over those scum bags for lying the U.S. into a war for oil. With the exception of the Fox news cool-aid, living, breathing and drinking crowd, we know what happened and feel remorse for the Iraqi people.
It's already in our history books, Downing street memo's and all! There's no white-washed, glossed over , missing 10 years from our history. Vietnam is complete with references to made-up, "Gulf of Tonkin" incident. We will still be doling out funds to Iraqi's for generations to come, because of Dubya's Illegal invasion... Some day they will be held to account for their actions, if not on earth, when they meet their maker.

I was here way before any Iraq fiasco, and Japan's attitude was one of complete and utter denial... There was and still is no context, to anything that happened up to and beyond 1945. School kids today will be hard pressed to tell you anything history regarding Japan's involvement in Asia from the early 1900's to 1945. Forget about asking what happened in Nanking in 1937, you will only draw a blank...

That's what's wrong with Japan today.... People need to know what really happened.... I don't blame the Japanese for Pearl Harbor, that's about the least of anything they did. I'm not Chinese, but feel so much resentment for what happened in 1937. I'm not even going to mention Unit-731, or the Live Vivisections carried out in May and June of 1945 at Kyushu Imperial University on American POW's... (You'll never ever see a mention of that in Japanese History books) And my Japanese friend's response, "Well America did it too.." That's not only ludicrous, it's blatantly inaccurate. I guess that's how they can equate things today. "See an American soldier bayoneted a Japanese soldier, so, big deal if the Japanese soldier threw a baby up into the air and caught them on the end of their bayonet..... America did it too"

No.... Not quite....