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What do you think of Japan?
Mt. Fuji, Geisha, Samurai, Bushido, Haiku,
an aggressor nation during the war,
victims of the atomic bombs, etc
Everything I've listed up above is JAPAN .
Many great events have happened throughout history, and our history always has dark side and light side.
If we make our criticism by picking up only a part of what the history has, those who don't knwo about Japan history may get the wrong knowledge,
but if you know all japanese history, the critisism may be entirely off the point,
or the critisism may be right .
I feel strongly that instead of sympathizing with only one side and discarding the other way of thinking, there are always two sides to history.
I 'd like to introduce both side of Japanese history in my page.
if you want to know about Bushido and old Japan , japanese traditional arts, Japanese spirits, etc.
visit our site .
SHISEI-DO DOJO.
I am a Japanese , so my English is not so good.
but , you can read and learn more in good English.
This is an enjoyable blog and I appreciate your efforts. It is of the utmost importance to study all aspects of history, both sides of the coin as it were, in order to achieve an accurate understanding and thus, to learn history's true lessons.
返信削除My own experience is that, particularly in the West, there is a growing tendency to return to a one-sided approach to history, a myopic view, one that was indicative of the West's view of Japan and Asia in the Edo, Meiji, Taisho and Showa Eras. It was this narrow viewpoint, and woeful ignorance of the intricacies of Japanese history and culture, that significantly contributed to World War II.
I have heard many modern Japanese express their troubled reactions upon reading articles written in the West, particularly on the Internet, by Western writers, motivated by political agendas and misguided by their own attempts to be "politically correct" and which lack adequate knowledge and scholarship, ignorant of the depth and complexity of Japanese culture and history. Many Japanese may well regard this as the West once again telling them what is right and correct, for them. Shame.
Please continue your good work in providing a wider, more inclusive view of Japan.
-H. Tokugawa