"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Amazing, if true, although it isn't the first time I've heard of the
Japanese style of blindered teaching of this period of their history.

I don't necessarily blame the Japanese for glossing over their own sordid
history. They have to shave every morning, too.

I think the psychologists call that "evasion".


My only worry is that *their* warped perception somehow becomes *our*
view,
rather than the other way around. If we ever allow this to happen, and
we -- for instance -- "tone down" the Enola Gay display, we dishonor our
veterans and lose the moral high ground.

It's worse to evade what you did well and proper than to try to forget.put
past you, what you did wrong. I'd imagine a rather bad psychosis could
develop, but imagine that psychosis on a national scale.