Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Comfort Women, NHK, Fuso-sha-, Tsukurukai, ABE Shinzo--VAWW-NETジャパん

A documentary on Japan’s war crimes was modified due to pressure from rigtists from the Liberal Democratic Party.  Long suspected by progressive activists, this was confirmed recently by reports in the Asahi Shimbun quotiing senior government and NHK officials.  Yet the money scandal involving NHK has gotten more coverage than this attempt to distort Japan’s wartime and colonial history.  Involved in this manipulation of a news documentary were people involved with the infamous Tsukurukai, which not only has succeeded in getting its revisionist history into junior high schools little by little, but--due to its acceptance by the Momkasho (Mombusho)--has persuaded almost all publishers to make their own textbooks more righ wing in hopes of finding favor with the Education Ministry too.

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