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Toshio Tamogami

According to the Washington Post, a Japanese air force chief named Toshio Tamogami was ousted last month for saying that Japan was not an aggressor during World War II.  This isn’t old news; I have friends in Japan who say that they didn’t know about Japan’s WWII history until they traveled to Australia and felt the resentment from people whose relatives had been killed.  The issue, of course, is that Japan is still relatively insular, and that the Japanese government has taken virtually no responsibility for educating its citizens about the truth.  Leaders like Tamogami are more interested in building false confidence rather than teaching truth.