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Article: IN JAPAN, WAR AND FORGETFULNESS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 15, 1988
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OSAKA, Japan - Today is the day Japan remembers its war dead.
Yoshiko Matsui wants her countrymen to remember the millions who
died at Japanese hands, as well.
"Japan has gone from the darkness of committing violence to
the darkness of forgetting the violence we once committed," said
the soft-spoken, 60-year-old grandmother who has spent the past
three decades trying to keep alive memories of atrocities
committed by Japanese forces against Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos
and others during World War II.
"We are changing our own history so we see ourselves as
victims of war instead of perpetrators of war," said Matsui, who
grew up as the daughter of a ...