CCTV News: Although the history of Japanese militarism invasion of China is as strong as a mountain, in Japan, forces that cover up and deny the history of invasion of China have always existed, and the forces that amend the Peace Constitution are ready to move. Japan also attempted to further cover up the fact of invasion of China by tampering with history textbooks. Many young Japanese people know very little about the crimes against humanity committed by Japanese militarism in China in modern history. In response, some experts called on the Japanese government to face up to history and reflect on its crimes.
Tokai University Honorary Professor Sudo Masato: The purpose of Japan's invasion of China is to plunder China's resources and market.
In order to let more Japanese people understand the truth about the Japanese invasion of China, the China-Japan Oral History and Culture Research Association, composed of Chinese and Japanese scholars, has been committed to collecting oral testimony and physical evidence from the living Japanese invaders and their descendants for many years to restore the historical truth.
Executive Vice President of the China-Japan Oral History and Culture Research Association Li Suzhen: Because there are too few people who are still alive and can speak, so (we) race against time every day and speed up their efforts. In addition to oral testimony, we also need to collect evidence. We have tens of thousands of military emails to interpret. These are also physical objects on the battlefield, and some diaries are also being sorted out.
Li Suzhen is one of the initiators of the China-Japan Oral History and Culture Research Association. She told reporters about her experience of a war investigation while giving lectures at Japanese University . She was shocked to find that contemporary Japanese young people lacked historical knowledge.
Executive Vice President of the China-Japan Oral History and Culture Research Association: When I was teaching in college, I did a questionnaire. One wrote "918 " and the other was "August 15", asking students to answer these two historical numbers. Students can answer 100% of the "August 15", but there are only two people and two percent (people) in "September 18".
Members of the Oral History and Culture Research Association expressed great anger at Japan's attempt to amend its peaceful constitution in recent years.
Member of the China-Japan Oral History and Culture Research Association, Takatoshi Okamoto: I firmly support the peaceful constitution that abandons war and opposes military expansion, and I am deeply angry at the attempt to amend the peaceful constitution.
History cannot be tampered with, peace is precious. In Japan, some young people with conscience also realize that they must deepen their understanding of the truth of history in order to truly learn from history.
Member of the Chinese and Japanese Oral History and Culture Research Association Nagano Mariko: High school also has history classes, but the textbooks do not have much content on modern history.
Member of the China-Japan Oral History and Culture Research Association Sen Biao: We must realize that we are the perpetrators of war, but why is the current situation in Japan that seems that the war invasion of China does not exist? How to teach the next generation of people to know the cruelty of war and the invasion of other countries? We have the obligation to leave the real history.
Source: CCTV.com
