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Originally Posted by Nyororin
Ah, the great urban legend rears it`s ugly head.
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Agreed. Although the majority of the Japanese education system does the right thing, the very very vocal and minority 右翼 members seems to take up most of the air time with their dodgy textbooks, which is used by like 0.1% of all the schools in Japan.
From the Chinese perspective, textbooks are centralised in PRC, all schools uses the same textbooks. So by assumption, everyone also thinks that these dodgy text books beat up by the extremists in Japan will be distributed to ALL schools in Japan, hence the over-reaction.
So hennaz, give it a break well you.
Just FYI, Sino-Japanese relationships are warming. There are sticky issues but if Sino-Japanese relationships survived for 2000 years, longer than the history of US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand combined, I'm sure it can survive another 2000 years more.
And to be frank, I don't think Japanese people even care about history, too preoccupied with Gucci, LV, make up and gourmet these days. Of course they are all told how terrible war is so I guess we should just move on.
(But of course you always get crazy people like Nanking and Holocaust deniers. You can't regulate stupidity.)