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April 20, 2005

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Talk about a phony war. Thousands of Chinese protesters trash Japanese
4 |% I5 Y) {0 iconsulates in a nation that has not lately shown itself to be incompetent
in the area of crowd control. The cause? A history textbook accepted for
1 Y" e! V  U  ^% e2 B" }use by only 18 of the 11,102 junior high schools in Japan.

There are real feelings and issues involved in this dispute, even if the
Chinese manifestations are less than entirely spontaneous.
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6 W+ A9 A/ X0 q2 w% F5 BThe Chinese people truly have not forgotten the Japanese occupations of
, ?, m- ^0 G9 e0 i/ Kthe 1930s and 1940s - incursions accompanied by high casualty totals and
widespread brutality.
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The textbook at issue whitewashes these episodes and revives the old
explanation of Japan's aggressive behaviour as a response to Western
colonialism and a consequence of the country's lack of natural resources.
. ]$ T! t  ^4 i4 Q- a" m; R2 ~( F% pIt is viewed with embarrassment by most Japanese, and has been repudiated
by the leading teachers' union.
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6 Q% M; j: g$ qThe real reason violence has been tolerated by the Chinese authorities is
Japan's campaign to acquire a permanent seat on the United Nations
Security Council, a change China fiercely opposes. Its stated reasons have
to do with Japan's reluctance to own up to its warlike past.

* x) n; E8 K& \, f. G) @China, among the most repressive societies in the world, is in no position
8 h: y+ T/ J7 S+ e9 H3 A: uto criticize its neighbour. When we hear Communist Party officials
repudiate the forced collectivizations of the 1970s and admit their
: b2 U7 b3 x& `% d5 t* Fresponsibility for the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989, we shall start
2 k6 t7 v) {* H$ I. R+ ktaking more interest in their views on Japan.
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Until then, the productive way to express opposition to Japan's joining
the Security Council is through logic and diplomacy. If there are good
reasons, let them stand the test of debate. Protests such as these are not
reasonable.
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