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March 14, 2013

Japan's Shocking History Lessons Airbrush WWII

Mariko Oi, BBC News

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Japanese people often fail to understand why neighbouring countries harbour a grudge over events that happened in the 1930s and 40s. The reason, in many cases, is that they barely learned any 20th Century history. I myself only got a full picture when I left Japan and went to school in Australia.

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