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Originally Posted by Oski
I am genuinely surprised by this. After seeing many make similar posts about believing or assuming Pearl Harbor involved Kamakazi attacks, I notice that most of you are from the East Coast. One poster made mention that Pearl Habor and the PTO were not really taught in history class.
I grew up (and stll reside) in Los Angeles. We covered a lot about the PTO in high school history as well as the Japanese internment.* I suppose it may have been more of a focus because the West Coast was quite involved in that aspect of the war and that we also have large concentrations of Japanese/Japanese-Americans in California.
As a general question: did you guys have ideas as to what Kamakazi attacks were, or did you just assume it was a general term for Japanese bombing attack?
* My recollection of this may be a bit off since as far back as I can recall, I have been an avid reader of WWII history books and I watched many, many war movies and documentaries, even as a kid. I have always been pretty well-versed in the Pearl Harbor attack, so I am not sure what the general public would know, or have been taught, about it.
I went to private school in San Diego and I don't recall a history class ever going over the Japanese Internment camps, if we did, it was ridiculously brief. I only knew about it because in 7th grade my teacher suggested I do my report on it.
what's even more mindblowing is the Japanese gov't to my knowledge has not apologized for their war crimes nor do they acknowledge those crimes in their books nor formal education.
Just a small preview, but they make the Holocaust look pretty civil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_nanking
"Japan officially maintains that no international law or treaties were violated. Many leaders in the Japanese government, including former prime ministers Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe, have prayed at the Yasukuni Shrine, which includes convicted Class A war criminals in its honored war dead. Some Japanese history textbooks controversially downplay Japanese actions in World War II,[11] and Japanese officials as high as prime minister Shinzo Abe have denied that atrocities occurred.[12][13]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes