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Old 08-03-2010, 17:10   #33
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Originally Posted by sf11b_p
In those visiting Japanese view, it's their history of Japanese victory of the attack on Pearl. It's their memorial of Japanese heroes of that attack.
I wonder how anyone could know this, or pragmatically why the Japanese who are often polite to the point of saying no with a yes, would suddenly in moment of extreme western candor reveal their actual inner thoughts to an American veteran, they just met at Pearl Harbor, while visiting Hawaii?

On the other hand, I don't know what's more troubling the fact Nanking is omitted from their history textbooks, or that American kids don't read ours?
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