Comments on: Crappy Japanese Textbook Sparks Protests in Korea, China

By: geez

geez — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:32:35 +0000

But Koeans should know their true history much more.
Their vocies are always too beautifuled.
http://www.geocities.com/istory2046/

By: Mutantfrog

Mutantfrog — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:40:11 +0000

Well Nanashi, thank you for the link to that painfully slow moving piece of flash ‘animation’. Would it really hurt to present information in the form of a simple text page? Truly the powerpoint mindset has spread like a virus throughout the world.

Ahem. Actually it does give a nice example of one of the liberal textbooks in use in Japan, but presenting an example of one good textbook is doing nothing but skirting the issue. Saying that there’s not a problem with history education in Japan because not all the high schools suck is like saying that the US shouldn’t be embarassed by the Kansas board of education because some lucky kids in Boston get to attend a school that is willing to teach them about evolution.

By: Nanashi San

Nanashi San — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:23:51 +0000

Are Japanese textbooks distorting history?
http://www.geocities.jp/baud_2005/tx310.html

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:49:00 +0000

The Chinese protest of the text book made it into Lewis Black’s segment on last night’s The Daily Show. He was actually talking about the ground rules of a good protest. Namely that your flag has to be “big and wavy” and that the other guy’s flag needs to be “small and compbustable.” Obviously, because it’s a comedy show, he boiled it down to a dispute about the innacuracy of a Japanese text book that the Chinese citizens could only have learned about through media controlled by the government, which is well known for propagandizing.

By: Mutantfrog

Mutantfrog — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:57:20 +0000

Ok, thanks for the clarification Nora. I guess the person who had told me that didn’t know what they were talking about after all.

By: nora sumi park

nora sumi park — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 00:25:26 +0000

This is a marked contrast to the situation in all of the protesting countries, where primary school textbooks are created and issued by the government.

this statement is not correct. in south korea, private publishing companies set up textbooks on their own along government-approved curriculum guidelines and then they are approved or not approved by the government.

there are left-wing textbooks and right-wing textbooks, some with a degree of similar ideological taint.

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By: John Thacker

John Thacker — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 21:17:01 +0000

It reads like a Pat Buchanan book.

Yeah, pretty much. Well, except that Pat Buchanan’s books argue against the US fighting in World War I (and some of them against fighting in WWII), whereas this book is pretty much to defend Japan fighting in WWII. “Objectively pro-fascist” you can call it either way, I suppose, in the spirit of George Orwell. (Though people might complain if you call others who oppose other wars on fasicsts as “objectively pro-fascist.”)

By: Saru

Saru — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 19:02:21 +0000

And by the way. The history text book is God-awful and I would be angry too if I were Chinese, Korean, or even Japanese for that matter. It reads like a Pat Buchanan book.