Word: matsunaga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patriotism In. Last week conservative old (70) Education Minister To Matsunaga was in the midst of an all-out campaign to correct the faults of the occupation-planted system. Said he: "Twenty million schoolchildren taking the compulsory education course in primary and junior high schools know no Japanese history and are taught no morals. My primary aim is to implant patriotic sentiments in schoolchildren's hearts." The J.T.U. promptly protested that "Matsunaga wants to march the children back to the dark, feudal past." Even the anti-Communist Japan Federation of Teachers' Unions (20,000 members) warned against "reactionary...