Just as a point of interest....
My aunt is a high school head mistress, and she quite often has Japanese (and other countries) students staying at her house for a term.
A while ago, she came home one evening to find a young Japanese student/ tenant of hers, sitting in front of a television, watching a documentary about the Japanese in Asia and the Pacific in WWII.
The poor guy was in tears, and asked her how she could possibly tolerate having Japanese students living in her home when the things he was seeing on TV were done by his countrymen.
He had NO IDEA about any of it, it was a complete shock to him, all he knew about WWII was that Japan was involved, and America had dropped two nukes on them.
He was ashamed and disturbed by what he saw, so much so that he wanted to know how she could put up with having Japanese people in her house.
To me, that says that young Japanese people didn't get taught the same things about WWII that I did.
My aunt explained to him that allthough it was indeed his countrymen that had commited these acts, he was in no way responsible for that, and to punish him, or his fellow youths, or in any way deny them something because of their history, would be a far greater crime on her part than any commited in the war by his forefathers, but that she was very pleased that the subject did concern him.
She suggested they take a trip to Canberra, to see the Australian War Museum, and apparently the young Japanese bloke walked around in a daze, saying over and over "I didn't know, I'm so sorry".
I get the distinct impression, that had he known beforehand the history of our two countries, and some of the incidents that occured between the two during WWII, that he very likely would not have come out here, for fear of being hated.
Now this is a 17 year old kid, very bright, very polite, and no matter how you look at it, Australia is a better place for having he and his peers here.
So, in some ways, perhaps it is for the better that our versions of history are differant, in other ways, perhaps not.
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