Request

I've been requested to find out what the Japanese people think about Hiroshima. Now normally I have no qualms about asking people personal questions.. I just do it, but I don't know if that kind of outgoing... / assertive behavior would go over well in asking. So I did it anyway and asked my host parents how they felt about it. (They are an older generation and I figured they'd give me a better answer than my speaking partner). This might shock some people, because it shocked me, but they were honestly taken aback, not about the question, but that I knew about it. Odd right? Well maybe, maybe not. A little explaination is in order here.

Japan's education system has a notorious/historical reputation of rewriting their history text books to suit the state's needs. (For example, if you want to instill national pride change your history books to show that you were 'always' a powerful nation, etc. ) I honesty don't know if this practice still continues, if it does it's not very noticable. But yeah moving on, my personal thoughts on this is that they think all countries do this so the states can keep their dark secrets from their people. Again, only speculating but the only thoughts they shared on the subject were ones of suprise at me knowing about the atomic bombs.