What is the main reason Japan cannot overcome its problems with the past?
The main problem is our education system. Japanese children learn Japan’s history starting from the ancient period and moving toward modern days. Normally, in other countries, they learn history starting with the present and moving into the past to learn where things come from. But in practice in Japan, history teachers generally teach up to, and including, the Meiji Era [1868-1912] and they don’t teach about the Showa Era [1926-89]. Often this is because they run out of time to cover the curriculum — which includes the Showa Era. This means that the government has not settled what is Japanese history yet, so history lessons stopped at the point where they suspend judgment on the Showa Era. So they never talk about the responsibility of starting the war. Japan played a big role when the Kellogg-Briand Antiwar Pact was formulated in 1928, and three Japanese — including Foreign Minister Shidehara Kijuro — were on the list of candidates for the Nobel Prize that year. So why did Japan p
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