ABSTRACT
Historical revisionism enjoys popular support in Japan. The great danger with Japan's historical myopia is that it endangers Japan's fragile relationships with its many Asian neighbors. Watanabe Takesato, Professor of Journalism at Doshisha University and a scholar of Japanese revisionist history, stresses that historical revisionism has been a common feature of Japanese government policy since the end of the Pacific War. Sejima Ryuzo, certainly one of Japan's more powerful postwar figures, is a graduate of the Imperial Army's military academy and distinguished himself as a staff officer in the Japanese expeditionary forces occupying China. Mizobuchi, who actively supports the historical revisionists, is a chief organizer of annual reunions of the several hundred Japanese survivors of Unit 731. The women were raped by Japanese soldiers at their homes in Shanxi Province in northeastern China or at Japanese military camps in the early 1940s.
