In Japan, the fight over war memory has new implications
Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images - A war veteran leads others clad in costumes of the Imperial Japanese Army during a visit to Yasukuni Shrine to pray for war victims in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 2012.
By , Dec 11, 2012 02:45 AM EST,
TOKYO — At a Shinto shrine here lined with cherry trees, a war museum asserts a jarring and unrepentant storyline about Japan’s wartime past, brushing aside well-documented atrocities and describing its rampage through Asia as tragic but justified.
The museum, making its case with videos and wall displays, says Japan “advanced through” Asia between 1931 and 1945 to protect neighboring countries from Western colonialism. There is no mention that the Imperial Army forced women into front-line brothels, or that its soldiers ransacked cities, using civilians for bayonet practice.
Click here to see the whole article in the Washington Post
By , Dec 11, 2012 02:45 AM EST,
The museum, making its case with videos and wall displays, says Japan “advanced through” Asia between 1931 and 1945 to protect neighboring countries from Western colonialism. There is no mention that the Imperial Army forced women into front-line brothels, or that its soldiers ransacked cities, using civilians for bayonet practice.
Click here to see the whole article in the Washington Post
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