I've seen some pictures of grown korean men soaked in
gasolin torching themselves alive in protest.

Japanese men used to fly perfectly good aircraft into ships. Americans have a nasty habit of sending people to reservations/internment camps/etc. Australians eat yeast willingly.

That doesn't really change the facts that a child's biases are a reflection of its' environment.

I knew this topic at a blog which sends out the informations of the situation in east asia at first. and then I took a look at 2ch, which IWCTY noted.

I'm appalled by the violent expressions contained within some drawings.
bombing, shooting, knives, stomping, and putting on fire. although they are still children......
therefore I feel at ease with looking at the last drawing of two giraffes. if japan and korea were like those two chummy giraffes, that would be too good.

Perhaps you have missed the pictures showing the Japanese as having buck teeth or as being monkeys.

Perhaps you missed the pictures about where they were inflicting violence on generic citizens.

The fuss is over that this project which ended up promoting a substantial number of violent or racist pictures was encouraged and rewarded by both the education ministy and the government owned subway corporation.

While pictures encouraging or rewarding violence were indeed a minority, there were hundreds of them.

They shouldn't have gone up in the first place. Each picture was drawn and then applied to a larger piece of cardboard. The second anything resembling racism or violence was spotted, it should have been removed. And it is not as though as though one or two accidentally got through unspotted

The teaching of "hate Japan" in Korea started decades ago, while Internet usage in Japan is subtantially more recent.

Perhaps you could provide some examples of this hate you claim exists.

Gord,
rene,
Could you give me a rough guess what percentage of the pictures were violent/racially offensive?

I see.
I learned that teaching of "hate Japan" through a book written by a Korean woman.
As I studied about femminism in Japan and there're many Korean classmates, and I heard that it's hard for women to say somthing in study fields in Korea, I just wanted to see what she said Korea and Japan.
And I learned a little about the civlization in Korea from that book, too, though it's about the interviwes of people's life during the ww2 in Korea.

I'm a Japanese and took whole education in Japan. As I didn't interested in the world history at all for years till a few months ago, I believed what I'd learned at Japanese public school; Japan killed lots of people in China and raped too many girls and robbered too many things from Asian coutries. They did terrible things and I always felt sorry for especially Chinese and Koreans, and I agreed that their never endress claims and wanting much money for years. And I'd really really hated Japan and all the ancestors who did the things like that in the war and Japanese army, though my grand mothers brothers were killed in that war(she never talked about the war and died last year). I let that hate go when I got in an university. As I thought it's too old to consider or to be botherd. But basically I hated Japan till last year, and I don't know now. When I read the book by a Korean woman and other infomation on the website, I felt released from a very black side a little. Because I knew that Japan didn't do only terrible things to other people in the war. And that changed my view of the world and I started to study and consider that war as it is related to another countries and situations in the whole world then, and the world now.

As you wrote before, each prefecture in Japan has their way to teach kids at school. But at the same time, history is much depends on teachers' knowledges actually. Many students go to another kind of shool after normal school, so they might learn defferent view from other teachers or text books.
But unfortunately, my prefecture seemed to be very famouse for under influences of Japanese teaching association (I'm not sure in English but something like that.), which choses and desides which history text book is good or terrible. And their standards are how we feel bad to Japanese army and wars.
http://www.geocities.co.jp/WallStreet/4759/20010714.html (Sorry it's only in Japanese)
http://blog.livedoor.jp/lancer1/archives/cat_719972.html (It is also in Japanese)

I didn't believe that some Japanese seem to deny or perish the terrible things Japan did in the war from the history a few months ago. I thought that war time was all painted too dark. But now I learned it's neccesarry to distingish good things and bad things in the war time. And it would be good if one of the text books teaches that. (But at the same time we could warn that it's easy to become too right wing, though now in Japan any examine or overhauling about something in the war seems to be taken as a very right wing.)

But still I feel it's very much taboo to discuss something about the war in Japan. I talked with some of my Japanese friends but I didn't know how many of them tried to know what really happened in the war time and why the relationships between Korea and Japan seems too comlicated by themselves (but we are doing very well and friendly on Japanese TV shows).
I don't usually talk about history with my friends, so I don't know what others think.
and, I'm skeptical what I read on the website. I need to read books by myself. I'm still studying.
And also I'm asking my friends what they exactly learned about the history in school, too.

For 60 years, Japan teaches only terrible part of the war with the Japanese teachers association. So that's why I said that Japan is teaching "hate- Japan" in Japan. Though they never make us paint terrible pictures like Korea. But apparently, that education isn't good, I think. Lacking of self confedence to be born as a Japanese. Bad for mentality.
But other Japanese? here (they seem much younger than me) don't say much about that. The one who wrote before (sorry I forgot the name, probably yoshi uk ) seemed to have had better one than mine. It would really depends on prefectures and teachers.

Yes, the Japanese wives are well-aware of the Japanese atrocities that China and Korea are accusing about bacause they learned the history so too. But what I want to say is that Japan had its reasons for its actions on the course of the country's history. If you start to see the event in a much broader perspective, Japan was not simply a bad guy... at least in my perspective. But the Japanese children are not taught the reasons why the country decded to act the way it did. Japan had been abandoning its rights to defend the ancestors against accusations that lack foundation evidence.

What else we could have done?

official apologies made by Japanese government;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan

As I had hoped I had made clear in my last post, no. It merely sparked a long lost nostalgia for my irish roots.

I love jok-bal wrapped in cabbage leaf. To think with all this hatred, we'd continue eating something connected to the Japanese ... Barbequed wae-nom, anyone? It sucks to be Korean sometimes. And, with all those Japanese wives/students apologizing, it doesn't help much in ameliorating what genuine pride we have left.

Adding upon this observation, maybe those teachers should also improve upon their Geography curriculum for there are no major volcanoes in the northern regions of the DPRK.

Thanks Yoda!

Ew.

Unintentional hilarity!