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- seems like the books are trying to whitewash the worst events of Japan
- shows a more biased view of Japan
- shows the country as very beneficial to the war, excluding their mistakes

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-Germany feels guilty about their past and continues to teach it openly
- some teachers take their classes on field trips to old concentration camps to combat antisemitism
- below is an average classroom in Germany

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Society and the media have a grand impact on a nation. The reason Germany is now viewing the Holocaust as an inhumane event, may hint that society outside of Germany is impacting them. The majority of the rest of the world views the Holocaust as a traumatic event. Since that is the case, Germany may feel pressured to also feel that way as well so they won't get backlash. It is good they are teaching it like this because it is very important an event like this never happens again.

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- blames WW1 victors for forcing Germany to take action in the war
- some textbooks imply that unfair treatment by the U.S., UK and France caused Germany to throw support behind Adolf Hitler
- pictured below is an excerpt of "Mein Kampf" which was commonly taught in Germany

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Japan: Japanese people often fail to understand why countries have a grudge over events that happened during WW2. The reason, in many cases, is that they barely learned any 20th Century history.
Germany: Germany however, has owned up to its wartime atrocities and has taken full responsibility for Nazi crimes. The nation strictly enforces laws banning Holocaust denial. Yet, they will not take the blame for the start of the war.
Both Japan and Germany were designed to make them more nationalistic.

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- fails to mention the 300,000 deaths from the Nanjing Massacre in depth
- some even deny the incident all together
- argued this event as "communist propaganda"
this picture here shows only a footnote of the Nanjing Massacre in a history textbook

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- many people in Japan deny comfort women
-skips allegations that as many as 400,000 were forced
- some believe they were paid prostitutes but others say they were forced to work as sex slaves
-below is a banner that read, "Give the children correct history textbooks"

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To erase anything that is seen as negative from Japan's history means that young people are ignorant about their own nation's past

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- wanted the history textbooks to portray the Nazi's and Hitler's regime as cruel
- teach it in order to prevent it from happening again
- won't take blame for war