Japanese History Textbooks & Conservative White Washing (Chinese/Korean) - Joriental, this question is for you

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There is controversy over this issue of some nationalistic-conservative Japanese historians whitewashing Japanese attrocities during WW2, such as the rape of Nanking,
comfort women, torture & execution of Allied POWs, and the use of chemical and biological warfare against civilians in China and Korea.

Now of course, opposition from China & the Koreas stem partly from nationalism and negative media coverage. However, some books have been whitewashed by a small group of conservatives in Japan.

"South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung, praised the widespread decision not to use the text, and a suprapartisan group of South Korean lawmakers who visited Tokyo on Thursday said the overwhelming rejection of the textbook ''represents the conscience of the Japanese public.''

The overwhelming majority of Japanese schools do NOT use the textbooks with conservative whitewashing cuz they know it's BS.

How should East Asian governments (Japan included) react to this controversial issue?

Now of course, China also whitewashes some of its own history. But that's beside the point since China is run by a corrupt communist dictatorship, while Japan is a democratic nation.

JOriental, if you don't respond to this question then you're a coward.
It was you who wanted to discuss this issue in public, no?

Go back to social studies class because you're a fool ignorant of world history.

Mass killings
Because of the sheer number of deaths caused by the Japanese military during the 1930s and 1940s, the killings are often compared to the contemporaneous suffering imposed by Nazi Germany during 1933–45. The historian Chalmers Johnson has written that:

It may be pointless to try to establish which World War Two Axis aggressor, Germany or Japan, was the more brutal to the peoples it victimised. The Germans killed six million Jews and 20 million Russians [i.e. Soviet citizens]; the Japanese slaughtered as many as 30 million Filipinos, Malays, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Indonesians and Burmese, at least 23 million of them ethnic Chinese. Both nations looted the countries they conquered on a monumental scale, though Japan plundered more, over a longer period, than the Nazis. Both conquerors enslaved millions and exploited them as forced labourers — and, in the case of the Japanese, as [forced] prostitutes for front-line troops. If you were a Nazi prisoner of war from Britain,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes#Mass_killings

Answer 1

Of course Japan will not show their history in the 20th century for what it was. This isn't a problem as long as the schools aren't teaching that militarism should again be the path for the nation.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

If Japan did actually such a thing, if Japanese government know it and trying to whitewash it, then it is wrong, of course.
So what do you want from Joriental?