The Mimizuka part 3 The Mimizuka is almost unknown to the Japanese public. A plaque, which was later
The Mimizuka part 3The Mimizuka is almost unknown to the Japanese public. A plaque, which was later removed, stood in front of the Ear Mound in the 1960s with the passage, “One cannot say that cutting off noses was so atrocious by the standard of the time.” Most guidebooks do not mention the Ear Mound, and only a few Japanese or foreign tourists visit the site. The majority of visiting tourists are Korean - Korean tour buses are often seen parked near the Ear Mound.In 1982, not a single Japanese school textbook mentioned the Ear Mound. As of 1997, the mound is referred to in about half of all high-school history textbooks according to Shigeo Shimoyama, an official of Jikkyo, a publishing company. The publisher released the first Japanese text book mentioning the Ear Mound in the mid-1980s. The Education Ministry of Japan at that time opposed the description as “too vivid” and pressured the publisher to reduce the tone and also to praise Hideyoshi for religiously dedicating the Ear Mound in order to store the spirits of the killed people.In the 1970s under the Park Chung-hee administration, some of the officials of the Korean government asked Japan to level the monument. However, most Koreans said that the mound should stay in Japan as a reminder of past savagery.#destroythedayhttps://www.instagram.com/p/CFXqy_hBk4v/?igshid=1xrp2hcspgo01 -- source link
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