Blog 23

Every country has­ the right to change their textbook.  The government can decide what their students going to learn.  On the latest Japanese high school history textbook, Japanese students need to studies something that never happened in history. “The textbook issue has become one of the major sources of diplomatic friction between Japan and other countries and has provoked widespread anti-Japanese demonstrations in Korea and China. “(Yi, 79-80) Japanese Government tried to waive what they did during World War Ⅱin China and Korea . In the latest history book, Japanese government says that they send armies to China during WWⅡis because the army was going  to help Chinese people got better life, and increased the whole  East Asia’s economic level.  However, the fact is the Japanese army built their own factories in China, and let Chinese labors worked.  They killed Chinese people for fun. Two Japanese soldier s had a match about who can kill one hundred Chinese people first. Maybe for Japanese student, history is just what they read from their books, but what really happened during WWⅡshould never be wavier. Japanese government thinks that they can easily erase what they did by their book, but they can never erase what really happened. The making up history cannot take place of what real happened. The better way for Japanese government is face the face and solve the problem. Lying to the student cannot help them to forget what really happened. Covering the problem by the textbook may cause more further problem.