Blog 25

The controversy about Japanese textbook affects the relationship between Japan and Korea for a long time. Since 1965, the Korea government first time asked Japanese government change their history textbook till 1980s, Japanese government began to change their textbook, there are too many things happened between two governments. (Yi, P82-83) It is hard to follow the really history, it is harder for historian to find out what really happened during wars. Most soldiers who have joined that war turned too old to remember what happened in the war. And historian can find very few government reports about those wars because no one can really remember what exactly happened under the war’s situation. For now, historians can still find somebody to proof the wars’ history, they want let to world know what happened on their land, Korea government wants Japanese student know what happened between Japan and Korea during the war. It is true that no one can waive the history, but it hard to proof that history as time pass. If people forget what really happened, it is same means that people waived this history in their mind. it is unfair for those countries who got hurt during the war, and it is not fair for most Japanese students.

I know that most countries like to change their history books. Most countries always have a completely different description about same history activities. Governments want their people believe that the government did the best choice for people during the war.