Zauriel
The Angel of Justice
- 13 Mar 2005
- 66
- 5
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When you had heard of Japan for the first time, what was your reaction and what was the first thing you learned about it?
When I was in the elementary school history class and I heard of the word Japan for the first time, the first thing I discovered about Japan was they were vile and merciless invaders and I thought they were "bad guys". That was because I had studied about "Japanese occupation in Philippines during World War II" in the history class at that time.
Today I still remember, from a high school level history book, a picture of Japanese World War II soldiers eating bananas while forcing the Filipino and American prisoners of war, even those wounded ones to walk on their death march as well as a picture of a U.S.-Filipino troop struggling to help his wounded comrade walking for miles.
I've seen an anime called Daimos when I was 6 or 7 years old but I had no idea it was anime and thought those kanji showed in Daimos were Chinese.
When I was in the elementary school history class and I heard of the word Japan for the first time, the first thing I discovered about Japan was they were vile and merciless invaders and I thought they were "bad guys". That was because I had studied about "Japanese occupation in Philippines during World War II" in the history class at that time.
Today I still remember, from a high school level history book, a picture of Japanese World War II soldiers eating bananas while forcing the Filipino and American prisoners of war, even those wounded ones to walk on their death march as well as a picture of a U.S.-Filipino troop struggling to help his wounded comrade walking for miles.
I've seen an anime called Daimos when I was 6 or 7 years old but I had no idea it was anime and thought those kanji showed in Daimos were Chinese.