A play teaching the history of the Great Kanto Earthquake massacres to Japanese youth
Playwright was inspired by finding his father’s diary, with stories of massacres of Koreans and socialists, spurred by rumors
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Playwright was inspired by finding his father’s diary, with stories of massacres of Koreans and socialists, spurred by rumors
Kyoiku Chokugo, or the Imperial Rescript on Education, was eliminated and revoked by the Diet in June 1948 as being incompatible with the basic principle of the Japanese Constitution.
In every matter, there are always positive and negative aspects. The Holocaust was an absolute evil, but is it possible that the Nazis did something good as well?
HIROSHIMA--Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui cited a part of the prewar Imperial Rescript on Education stressing loyalty to the emperor in training materials for new city employees, The Asahi Shimbun learned on Dec. 11.
Our columnist is still on a sakura high, this time in Kyoto, where time seems to have stood still from centuries ago.