{"id":606,"date":"2007-09-28T16:21:49","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T07:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=606"},"modified":"2008-04-23T12:21:42","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T03:21:42","slug":"protest-sept-29-re-monkashous-okinawa-history-revisionism-okinawa-convention-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Protest Sept 29 re Monkashou’s Okinawa History Revisionism, Okinawa Convention Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Blog. Just got word of this from friend Gene van Troyer, regarding a protest tomorrow in Okinawa over WWII history revisionism from the Ministry of Education. Details below. Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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Perhaps Japanese are complacent when it comes to MEXT rewriting the history textbooks about Comfort Women and the Nanking Massacre during WWII, but what about here at home? It seems that there is no rest for the revisionists. Earlier this year (1) the GOJ through MEXT ordered all references to military-encouraged mass suicides in Okinawa to be expunged and replaced with less controversial and damning phrasing like “many people committed suicide.” Okinawans are in an uproar over this slap in their collective face (2), (3).<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Coming up tomorrow, Saturday, Sept 29, from around 3:00 P.M. there is to be a general protest (kyoukasho kentei shuudanjiketsu) staged at the Okinawa Convention Center over MEXT’s attempt to rewrite history regarding the Japanese military’s policy of encouraged civilian “mass suicides” during the Battle of Okinawa. MEXT is pushing the view that it never happened. Scores of Okinawans who were there and witnessed it say it did (4), (5).<\/p>\n

(1)***Okinawa Outcry Grows Over Japan Textbook Revision on WWII Suicides<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.propeller.com\/viewstory\/2007\/06\/09\/1000-protest-in-okinawa-at-gov t-view-on-military-role-in-war-suicide\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2 Farticle.php%3Fid%3DD8PLABLG0%26show_article%3D1%26catnum%3D0&frame=true<\/a><\/p>\n

(2)***1,000 Protest in Okinawa at Gov’t View on Military Role in War Suicide<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.propeller.com\/viewstory\/2007\/06\/09\/1000-protest-in-okinawa-at-gov t-view-on-military-role-in-war-suicide\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2 Farticle.php%3Fid%3DD8PLABLG0%26show_article%3D1%26catnum%3D0&frame=true<\/a><\/p>\n

(3)***Okinawans Outraged by What They Say is a Cover-up of Military-urged Mass Suicides During WWII Battle<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.propeller.com\/viewstory\/2007\/06\/09\/1000-protest-in-okinawa-at-gov t-view-on-military-role-in-war-suicide\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2 Farticle.php%3Fid%3DD8PLABLG0%26show_article%3D1%26catnum%3D0&frame=true<\/a><\/p>\n

(4) Ryuukyuu Shinpo article (Japanese) http:\/\/ryukyushimpo.jp\/news\/storyid-27569-storytopic-1.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(5) Okinawa Times article (Japanese) http:\/\/www.okinawatimes.co.jp\/day\/200709281300_03.html<\/a>
\nENDS\n<\/p>\n

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Coming up tomorrow, Saturday, Sept 29, from around 3:00 P.M. there is to be a general protest (kyoukasho kentei shuudanjiketsu) staged at the Okinawa Convention Center over MEXT’s attempt to rewrite history regarding the Japanese military’s policy of encouraged civilian “mass suicides” during the Battle of Okinawa. MEXT is pushing the view that it never happened. Scores of Okinawans who were there and witnessed it say it did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,19,20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-discrimination-templates","category-education","category-history","category-japanese-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}