Japan and Germany...the fundamental difference

 Germany, which invaded France during World War II, agreed to "co-write" a history textbook objectively describing its atrocities and reflections with France, clearly demonstrating why Japan is treated differently from Germany in the international community.      France's Le Monde reported on the 10th (local time) that French Minister of Education Francois Piyong and German Chancellor Peter Mueller, who heads the French-German Cooperation Committee, agreed to create a history textbook jointly compiled by the two countries.      The first book of history to be co-written will cover modern and contemporary European history after World War II when the German Nazi invasion of France occurred.      Le Monde highly evaluated the meaning, saying, "This joint history textbook can be an integrated model of history textbooks in all European countries that share history in the future."      According to the textbook composition released by Ernst Klett of Stuttgart, Germany, and Nathan of Paris, France, selected from competitive bidding, the first of the three books to cover modern and contemporary European history consists of five chapters.      Chapter 1 is about World War II and 1945-1949, Chapter 2 is about Europe between the United States and the former Soviet Union from 1949-1989, and Chapter 3 is about Europe in the world from 1989 to the present. Chapter 4 deals with the history of technological, economic, social, and cultural changes that took place after 1945, while Chapter 5 focuses on France and Germany after 1945, which are still the subject of discussion.      The first volume of the joint history textbook will be used by high school seniors from 2006 to 2007.      The other two books cover ancient, medieval, and Renaissance Europe and World War II, and are planned to be used by first and second graders in high school in the future.      If a joint German-French history textbook is published, it is expected to be a good contrast to the textbook of Japan's far-right "Sae Yeok Mo," which is consistent with history distortion and rationalization of invasion. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conscientious Japanese intellectuals have revealed that Japan's far-right group, "New History Textbook Making Society," has been lobbying the Education Commission and others, even violating Japanese Ministry regulations to spread the adoption of Fusosha textbooks.      However, despite such violations of regulations, the Ministry of Education criticized conscientious objectors and Japanese far-right media, including the Sankei Shimbun, criticized them as "traitors," and the trend of the Japanese government and far-right over Fusosha textbooks is unusual. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Both countries committed systematic and collective genocide and human rights abuses against the governed in World War II (as did the victors, of course...), but their postwar moves were at opposite ends. One country is reflecting and apologizing so thoroughly that its own neo-Nachis are called "self-assertion," but the other country is only repeating, "What did I do wrong?" So far, when it comes to historical issues about Japan, there have been about two common arguments among those who advocate it. 1. It's the fault of the weak one. 2. I didn't see the right one among the people who blamed me for the past. However, for France, which suffered from powerlessness, Germany is reflecting on what has happened, and it seems that it will continue. Japan's official position on the issue of past history is "We have already officially apologized at the time of the Korea-Japan agreement."What do you want me to apologize for?"But I don't think there's any remorse or apology for Japan's actions right now. Apology and reflection are only possible when you have the ability to do so.Germany's terrible self-reflection eventually makes an external promise not to repeat it again by revealing its own mistakes based on internal consensus. I don't think Japan will be able to show Germany for a long time to come.Japan that doesn't know how to self-reflect...No, when I see Japan, which is not capable of reflecting on itself, I get angry at their arrogance, but I think it shows their limitations. Speaking of the Nanking genocide, people who love Japan say, "300,000 is fiction.How can you kill all those people?"Of course, 300,000 or 30,000 people could have died.The important thing is that we systematically and collectively slaughtered civilians who were not directly related to the battle, even though they were in wartime, and there was no remorse or apology.I think the exact expression is that they don't know what they did wrong. I think having a neighbor who doesn't know how to reflect is one of the many misfortunes of Korea.In this situation, one side is saying that there is no history, so as anyone said, it seems that something is going wrong.