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Facing the past
Japanese World War II museum avoids issue o/lip
TOKYO (AP) — After years of controversy, Tokyo
now has a national museum chronicling the events of
World War II. But it is a portrait cleansed of Pearl Har
bor, Hiroshima and almost any direct reference to the
front lines.
The transformation of the Showa Hall museum,
which opened in March, from a war memorial into a
bland exhibition of wartime life
shows it is difficult still is for Japan
to reckon with its past.
Half a century after Japan’s sur
render, debate still rages over at
tempts to designate the widely used
national flag and anthem as the na
tion’s official symbols. Attempts to
bolster the role of Japan’s postwar
military have met heavy criticism,
and historians still battle over
whether the imperial troops com
mitted atrocities abroad.
The passions aroused by the
Japan’s role in World War II has
'‘The people on the
left wanted wartime
responsibility
addressed. The people
on the right... didn’t
want an anti-war
memorial/'
— Hirokazu Ishida
Japanese government official
proven too much for the museum, according to Hi
rokazu Ishida of the government agency overseeing the
$101 million project.
“The people on the left wanted wartime responsibil
ity addressed,” he said. “The people on the right protest
ed they didn’t want an anti-war memorial. It became im
possible to display anything historical about the war.”
By the time the museum opened, a decade after the
project began, officials had backed downii
deal with the responsibility issue, andinsie.-.;
the theme of hardships suffered by civiM
The only exception may be a largepnoicr
ing a part of Tokyo razed by U.S. airstrikes.
no caption that speaks ot the bombing.
Interviews with survivors ol the war are
monitors. But none ot trie:
soldiers. Shown instead;
dren and wives, whom
lonely, afraid and, mosto
Not surprisingly, tner
the museum’s messaged
activists on either sideot.
A Tokyo-based group
veterans' families, whicr
the museum, said them
ik) justice to the war. wl
lv 2 million Japanesedeat
them civilians. -
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and thinking you've
pliant," Hitoshi Nakayama, an official
tion, said. "You have to talk about thewar
To pacifists, the site of the new museuiL
so far attracted 44,000 visitors, has distu
and militarist undertones. It is within w
of Yasukuni Shrine, a Shinto memonaltM
highly controversial for including war
its enshrined.
Israeli coalition rejects hardline p
JERUSALEM (AP) — The hard
line Likud party, which sought a
powerful place in Prime Minister-
elect Ehud Barak’s emerging coali
tion, announced yesterday it would
not join what was shaping up to be
a dovish Israeli government.
Barak’s refusal to capitulate to
Likud’s demands to hold the line on
turning over more land to Israel’s
neighbors was welcomed by the
Palestinians, who had been jittery of
dealing again with the Likud.
The Likud-led government, oust
ed by Barak in elections May 17,
froze the peace process with the
Palestinians and did not reopen ne
gotiations with Lebanon and Syria.
Barak’s left-w
said thev would be ha®
out Likud. But the te:
ty’s absence from It'D
ended prospects tor
leader to establish a te
ernment that wouldgre
witiest possible corae
peacemaking decisions
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