Japan May Post Troops at Embassy in China

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http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4402948

Japan’s foreign minister called on China to denounce violent anti-Japanese protests as Chinese nationalists prepared for a third weekend of demonstrations over Tokyo’s wartime aggression and its campaign for a UN Security Council seat.

Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura also said Japan was looking into tightening security for its diplomats, suggesting Tokyo might post soldiers at its embassies, which now rely on local police. Japan’s mission in Beijing was targeted by an angry crowd last week.

Machimura, due to fly to Beijing on Sunday, said he would convey a demand for Chinese leaders to denounce the protests. If they fail to act, he said in Tokyo, then “th government is acknowledging its support for the demonstrations.”

Relations between the Asian giants have plunged since Japan’s approval of a history textbook last week that critics say plays down Tokyo’s World War II atrocities such as germ warfare and sex slavery of Asian women.

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1. Japan puts blame for violent riots at Beijing's door

Japan's foreign minister said yesterday he would demand China end what Tokyo believes is official backing for mass anti-Japanese protests, as Chinese activists urged even bigger rallies this weekend.

Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura is due in Beijing on Sunday as tensions steadily grow worse between the neighbors, with Japan approving a nationalist history textbook and oil and gas exploration in contested fields.

Japan has demanded an apology and compensation over last weekend's violence, when thousands of protesters marched to the Japanese embassy and pelted it with bottles and cans in Beijing's biggest demonstration in years.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/04/15/2003250508

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2. China's history books also leave out some key events

Some things you won't find in Chinese history textbooks: the 1989 democracy movement, the millions who died in a famine caused by misguided communist policies or China's military attacks on India and Vietnam.

As China criticizes Japan for new textbooks that critics say minimize wartime abuses like the Japanese military forcing Asian women into sexual slavery, Beijing's own schoolbooks have significant omissions about the communist system's own history and relations with its neighbors.

"With rising Chinese nationalism, the efforts to rewrite history, to reinterpret history according to the demands of nationalism have become a major national pastime," said Maochun Yu, a history professor at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/04/15/2003250536

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3. Have you ever read about what happened at Kent State in our textbooks?

Or do you thing our next generation of little kiddies will be reading about what happened at Abu Grahib prison in the future? Didn't think so.

Don

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4. We don't even have Von Braun's true history in our text books.

Von Braun was Hitler's secret weapon!
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Von Braun's relationship to the Nazi Party is complex; although he was not an ardent Nazi, he did hold rank as an SS officer. His relationship to slave labor is likewise complicated, for his distance from direct responsibility for the use of slave labor must be balanced by the fact that he was aware of its use and the conditions under which prisoners labored.17


Atrocities perpetrated at V-2 production facilities at Nordhausen and the nearby concentration camp at Dora-where some 20,000 died as a result of execution, starvation, and disease-stimulated controversy that plagued the rocket pioneers who left Germany after the war. The most important V-2 production sites were the central plants, called Mittelwerk, in the southern Harz Mountains near Nordhausen, where an abandoned gypsum mine provided an underground cavern large enough to house extensive facilities in secrecy. Slave labor from Dora carved out an underground factory in the abandoned mine, which extended a mile into the hillside. Foreign workers under the supervision of skilled German technicians assumed an increasing burden; at Mittelwerk, ninety percent of the 10,000 laborers were non-Germans.18
http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/excerpts.html