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The Gazette
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April 20, 2005
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Talk about a phony war. Thousands of Chinese protesters trash Japanese
2 J% X3 j1 c) P" A2 t; ]& |" Xconsulates in a nation that has not lately shown itself to be incompetent
/ V' [6 Z  S! zin the area of crowd control. The cause? A history textbook accepted for
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
+ O1 Y7 f3 B* j  S6 C: WChinese manifestations are less than entirely spontaneous.
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The Chinese people truly have not forgotten the Japanese occupations of
6 b# _# R  q7 z9 P! J  Kthe 1930s and 1940s - incursions accompanied by high casualty totals and
widespread brutality.
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& D; g/ ^& t" \" f# ?The textbook at issue whitewashes these episodes and revives the old
, N* M- ]1 y6 q6 i7 Dexplanation of Japan's aggressive behaviour as a response to Western
0 ^) X, m) ~4 tcolonialism and a consequence of the country's lack of natural resources.
( t  V7 ?0 Y% F4 r1 ^- A6 eIt is viewed with embarrassment by most Japanese, and has been repudiated
& a6 p3 Q8 s9 J* s( I; Y. pby the leading teachers' union.

4 y* A' _% j4 e# R8 k1 |% ?& fThe real reason violence has been tolerated by the Chinese authorities is
4 ?+ {. M% Q1 b5 ^Japan's campaign to acquire a permanent seat on the United Nations
' b! z5 T0 [  @' x9 }7 N5 c, wSecurity Council, a change China fiercely opposes. Its stated reasons have
to do with Japan's reluctance to own up to its warlike past.
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China, among the most repressive societies in the world, is in no position
" O8 F" D5 V* B  R, J+ J$ vto criticize its neighbour. When we hear Communist Party officials
repudiate the forced collectivizations of the 1970s and admit their
7 S- F7 W8 [! D" `! r8 _/ Yresponsibility for the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989, we shall start
taking more interest in their views on Japan.

Until then, the productive way to express opposition to Japan's joining
the Security Council is through logic and diplomacy. If there are good
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