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Ienaga Saburo Influence

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The article, “Coming to Terms with the Past” by Rikki Kersten, highlighted many important topics pertaining to World War II and the influence of Ienaga Saburo. This article was mainly focused on the impact that Saburo made by telling the stories of post World War II Japan and how many saw Japan during this time of war. Ienaga Saburo was a Japanese historian that was deemed unfit to serve in the military. Placed in the Army reserve, Saburo did not see much action during the war and at the age of 98, Saburo passed away. In the last four decades of his life, Saburo was considered a hero as well as a crusader in “radical and popular circles” (Kersten 145). Over a period of 32 years, Saburo placed many different lawsuits towards the Japanese state regarding censorship of his textbooks. He believed that students in Japan should see the hardships and crimes that the Japanese committed during this time of war. …show more content…

While the aforementioned statement might seem a little off topic, this was all started due to Saburo. Saburo ultimately changed how people viewed the history of Japan. This allowed for other entities, such as comics, to embrace history and tell the correct version to their audience. Popular cartoonist, such as Kobayashi Yoshinori, would not have been able to create his work if it wasn 't for Saburo paving the way. The history of cartoons is very reliant on the ideas created from postwar Japanese intellectual

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