Marcos, I don't know the details about the history book in Japan, but I do know there is a LOT of history with which children around the world are bored, berated and bewildered. Of course things are glossed over. Good! <Japanese glossing over war crimes, yes that is pretty stupid of them ... calls for an appropriate measured response maybe>
There is an almost infinite amount of detail that has happened and nobody has a brain or input mechanisms sufficient to learn about more than a minuscule fraction of it.
Personally, I think the text book has too much detail and even more should have been glossed over. I can't think why a Japanese child in the 21st century needs to know about some vicious soldiers from Japan nearly a century ago. It's more important that they learn about the horrors perpetrated by Chinese 500 years ago and by the Mongols 1000 years ago and by the Americans 200 years ago, so they understand how at risk they are from jingoistic racist maniacs around the world.
But all that can be safely ignored too, because the world is no longer run by megalomaniac Emperors and their courtiers and military supporters who live by cannibalism, be it by slavery, property theft, or actual flesh of other humans.
Hooray for the Japanese glossing over history. Maoris don't go on about how they used to eat each other, and Europeans when available, in genocidal territorial wars. They focus on more positive aspects of their history.
Some silly Americans are wanting melanin-rich people in the USA to get money from melanin-deficient people by way of taxation to compensate the melanin-rich for enslavement of their ancestors.
On the contrary, the melanin-rich should express their appreciation for their DNA being brought from the hideous horrors of enslavement and an early death in Africa, to the slave plantations, then to citizenship and freedom and anything they wish to and are capable of doing.
It seems odd to think that some poor Mexican immigrant on a production line, or low paid job, should give Condoleezza Rice some money because she [perhaps, but I have no idea] had some slaves as ancestors once upon a time.
History is a major nuisance and much of it should be ignored.
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