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Question: JAPANESE: question regarding WW2!?
I have spent some time in Germany and found that Germans are very apologetic about the war,even apologised to me which was weird and not necessary!. It was just very evident that this is something that obviously a big part of their history that they are not proud of and hold a very sincere remorse!.

I've never been to Japan and was wondering if their frame of mind is similar!. Is the history of WW2 taught in schools and taught accurately!? Is the subject avoided or discussed!? Just curious on the japanese mindset of the war!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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I don't know re the Japanese as a whole, but I lived in Fukuoka, Japan on Kyushu Island for a year in 1954-55!. I lived in one wing of a Japanese family home!. My landlord--the elder son and younger sister were very embarrassed and very reluctant to talk about WWII!. The most she would say was that when they were warned about coming air raids, they took all the ancestors' china and prized possessions and buried them in the back yard to protect them!. Fire bombings were the most destructive because almost all of the homes/buildings were of wood!. Out of courtesy, I never pushed it!. I did read a lot of the History of Japan and of a 1000 years of "obeisance" to authority!!! Never questioned it!! Once General MacArthur got the Emperor to surrender, all citizens obeyed!. They would not have obeyed anyone else!. MacArthur and staff knew enough about the psyche of the Japanese!. Had America been invaded, we all would have been fighting to the death--and would never have capitulated!. But the two atomic bombings, were the decisive events that stopped the war immediately!.Www@QuestionHome@Com