Propaganda

June 22, 2005

Several months after the anti-Japan demonstrations in China, I’ve just read a provoking news in international Herald Tribune, meanwhile it tells me something interesting :

While the Japanese have received the bulk of the criticism for the shrine, they are not, however, the only ones to have manipulated the meaning of Yasukuni and its war criminals. So have the mainland Chinese, the Taiwanese and the Americans, each according to their own interests.

I can’t agree with it any more, propaganda is universal, ubiquitous. We concede that the politicians are fonctionally different from the historians, but please be honest in the critical , polemic problem at least do not distort too much the fact! To MP of Japan , China and everyone concerned.