The story is always the same. Someone will always whitewashing, down playing, cover ring up japanese atrocities during its aggressive period in the second world warn, pre second world war era. Oftentimes these complaints will come from people who suffered at the hands of japanese aggression. We have similar text book issues here in the united states, and many other countries do. And they often revolve around history class for middle schoolers and junior high schoolers and high schoolers. The arguments are over how your own country's bad periods are portrayed. I don't mean to get political, but both of the right winged, extra patriot sides of both countries actually have similar
Deep themes run through this show, with allegations of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in China at the start leading to eerily familiar, almost modern questions over how the world should respond. And then Dec 7, 1941 arrives...