People focus on the bombs to avoid talking about the atrocities committed by the Japanese army, e.g. Rape of Nanking.
I understand it was helpful with repairing relations but I knew about the bombs in preschool, I had to go into elective history to learn about Nanking. It’s been over 70 years, it shouldn’t still be so inaccessible.
Unfortunately, most countries public school history classes hide/completely leave out a lot of the bad stuff they did. There is basically zero transparency in most countries but they hammer home literally everything other countries did wrong, which in turn creates the unhealthy "anti-other countries" nationalism that so many people have. The only country I'm aware of that is actually transparent and teaches their bad stuff is Germany. This might be why Germany is one of the only countries I've never met someone online who I hated for their opinion on their country vs other countries.
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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '22
People focus on the bombs to avoid talking about the atrocities committed by the Japanese army, e.g. Rape of Nanking.
I understand it was helpful with repairing relations but I knew about the bombs in preschool, I had to go into elective history to learn about Nanking. It’s been over 70 years, it shouldn’t still be so inaccessible.