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...recent article, The Crimson explored the debate among Harvard students as to whether or not the current Japanese government should apologize to China for crimes committed during World War II (WWII). Those crimes were horrible, and the utterly despicable behavior of all the Axis powers during World War II is something that people in Japan and everywhere must understand and appreciate. Nevertheless, I do not believe it to be the place of the current Japanese government to either grant or withhold apology for events that took place so long...
People in Japan and everywhere need to understand what really happened during WWII, that the world may take measures to assure that such events never happen again. As such, Japan (and every other country) needs textbooks that portray the events of the WWII period accurately, as well as a frank and open dialog about the horrors of WWII both among academics, and between academics and the general public. But the current government of Japan represents a constituency in which the majority of individuals were not of adult age during the Second World War. As such, although it is their duty...
...specter of a rearming and aggressive Japan gives the rest of Asia flashbacks to WWII, but the truth is that Iwakuni, like all Japanese military facilities, is far more defensive than offensive. While missile-armed FA-18 Hornets launch daily from the American side of the base, Japan's hangars are filled with craft like the MH-53, which sweep for mines, and the US-1A, a giant propeller-powered flying boat that has participated in hundreds of sea rescues...
...Leroy, the author of assorted literary works that almost nobody besides Courtney Love had read, was himself fabricated by a San Francisco couple looking for attention. But don?t ask me to be outraged that there are slight similarities between Ian McEwan?s Atonement and the autobiography of a WWII nurse. I just don?t have...
...proposal is the infamous 1945 report, “General Education in a Free Society,” written by former University President James B. Conant ’14, otherwise known as the Red Book.The Red Book, which addressed what college should be like in the post-WWII world, advocated a so-called “great books” curriculum that would equip students with the tools they needed to engage fully in a meritocratic society.While the new Gen Ed proposal eschews anything even remotely like a core set of knowledge, its goals are similar to those...