I'd have to contradict you there, Izzibeth. Since I've worked at an international exchange center for foreign students at a UC, I've had a chance to meet many Japanese students. Since I'm quite interested in Asian regional history/politics, on occasion, I've had the opportunity to ask them regarding the "controversial" topics of Japanese textbooks and wartime atrocity. For most of them, if they were not oblivious to certain events, they did not learn about it until they came to the United States through American or Chinese friends. Those that knew certainly never learned it from the Japanese school system. I am unsure as whether or not they are taught that they were forced in to war, although I'm sure some of the older generation believe that. What I'm sure of is that there is a large Japanese population ignorant about WWII events being manipulated to believe that everyone is against them for events that, in their view, have no concrete proof of occurring.