Comments on: Doodling on faces in Japanese history textbooks

By: Shichi

Shichi — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:15:50 +0000

I sent this to Ito’s Great Grand-Daughter, she thought it was cute.

By: putang

putang — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:27:06 +0000

i think that they were afraid of offending james.hehehe

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:49:26 +0000

“Could it be that the show’s producers thought it might offend Christians to see one of their saints defaced?”

Francis Xavier is a Catholic saint, not a Christian one; the idea of sainthood isn’t even present in most Christian theologies.

(No, I’m not saying that Catholics aren’t Christians, only that non-Catholic Christians probably wouldn’t give a rat’s ass about people drawing on pictures of a Catholic saint. I doubt most Catholics would care either.)

By: goat

goat — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:39:57 +0000

A quick google of 開国してください　led me to this: http://storage.irofla.com/?name=peri&type=swf
(Crappy flash and good laughs.)

By: Togu

Togu — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:19:48 +0000

I remember doing the same thing when I was a kid.

By: aka

aka — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:15:12 +0000

I’d be more worried about censoring Gandhi than Xavier. Those fanatics are experts at getting shows cancelled… shows that they’ve never seen… that aren’t even broadcast in India…

By: Ryry

Ryry — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:05:54 +0000

Funny and inventive. Nice to see that the youth of today is on the right tracks.

Though, I do wonder why the music being played was “Land of Hope and Glory”…

By: Gol

Gol — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:48:03 +0000

Awesome. Just awesome.

By: jsmizzle

jsmizzle — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:14:39 +0000

they shouldn’t be afraid at all. francis xavier isn’t mohammed.

By: Dan Chen

Dan Chen — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:43:42 +0000

“Could it be that the show’s producers thought it might offend Christians to see one of their saints defaced?”

LOL – why do i suddenly feel an incoming debate again….

But on a more serious note: are there that many Christians in Japan to begin with to warrant such censorship?

By: The Overthinker

The Overthinker — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:34:34 +0000

Yeah – this is a bit sinister. Are they really afraid of fanatics?

By: Maxim

Maxim — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:13:36 +0000

Why would they censor Xavier’s pictures?

By: Xylo

Xylo — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:31:16 +0000

“Could it be that the show’s producers thought it might offend Christians to see one of their saints defaced?”

Well, Aso is Catholic…

I also notice that images of the emperor seem to have been spared.

By: www.japansoc.com

www.japansoc.com — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:07:36 +0000

Doodling on faces in Japanese history textbooks…

Some examples of what Japanese kids write in their history textbooks. (Contains some true masterpieces!)…