This special issue Will July Number Magazine History Expert, the whole permanent preservation version (1,000 yen) is a book that all citizens should head to a bookstore and subscribe. It is packed with real scholar's papers that line up with the late · Tadao Umesao, Watanabe Shoichi who was born in Yamagata Prefecture, the neighboring prefecture of my hometown.
It is the same for people all over the world, but I will tell as much about it as possible.
The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
John Dower's rhetoric
Taking the editorial of the Asahi newspaper, Mr. Yukio Okamoto wrote in the Sankei Shimbun that "Tamogami thesis is spelled out by verification that cannot bear verification," as it was criticized and December in December 2008 Thirty days again in the Sankei Shimbun he wrote and run away.
"About the mistakes in Tamogami article, Asahi Shimbun last month on 13th Kitaoka Shinichi professor, University of Tokyo, on the same newspaper on 22nd of this month John Dower MIT professor in USA," is "Always support the country" a Patriotism? , is doing an excellent refutation, I will not mention it here."
So let's see Dower's paper "Tamogami thesis" Always support the country "a Patriotism?"
"For the United States" Pearl Harbor "is an event that can not be erased from memory. The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001 and the subsequent selection of the US-led Iraq war raised its memory unexpectedly in a shocking manner. (...) President Bush also responded to this and wrote in his diary with 9.11 as "Pearl Harbor in the 21st Century." This popular association is based on the Bush administration's announcement of the "first strike" policy in September 2002, half a year later It was a boomerang called Iraq invasion.
The United States who strongly condemned the Pearl Harbor attack as well as the 9.11 incident as a war against the United States, but this time they themselves chose the way of war. (Abbreviated) (December 22, 2008, Sankei Shimbun)
Because Mr. Dower is a good writer who won the Pulitzer Prize, if the editorial of the Asahi newspaper is a sentence written by junior high school students' bounce, I think this paper is a dignified sentence.
The rhetoric's way of using it is also skillful, and it is a context that criticizing the United States admits that Japan was bad.
It is a really skillful sentence.
However, it must be said that it is also a very dangerous sentence at the same time.
He acknowledged the error of the Bush administration, but it is still a view that the United States was right for the previous war.
Besides, Mr. Dower's next expression that I always provoke.
"1930s, and in the early 1940s, Japan also fell into militarism as a colonial imperialist force, invaded, occupied and carried out terrible atrocities. (Omission) In a war without a win, Japanese leaders who forced their unreasonable sacrifices to their own soldiers and even the mainland citizens were shortsighted and heartless. "
This is exactly the position of the War Guilt Information Program.
This program puts Japanese citizens and leaders in a different position, and turns citizens to look on leaders as an enemy.
However, those who know Japan at that time know that 99% of Japanese were united with Japan.
The War Guilt Information Program divided it and showed it.