Tomoko Kana, director of a documentary film "From the Land of Bitter Tears" condemning Japanese aggressors' crimes of abandoning weapons in China, criticized Japanese media for not reporting on Japan's infliction during the World War II and refuted criticism on "anti-Japan education" in China.

She made the remarks when delivering a speech in Shibuya, Tokyo on July 17, 2005.

Ms. Kana said that sixty years later, today, all the Japanese should think about what Japan, as a country who inflicted pains on others, should do. As the 60th anniversary of the end of the World War II draws near, Japanese media are reporting more about the war, which, however, mostly concentrate on Japanese victims and mention little Japan's infliction on its neighboring countries. They should not be doing so, she said.

As for criticism in Japan on China's "anti-Japan education", Kana said firmly that she had read Chinese textbooks, which, though introducing the background, do not describe in detail the atrocities of the Japanese aggressors. It is from their grandparents that the Chinese people get their most vivid impression of the war. If the Chinese textbooks are regarded as anti-Japan, then introductions on atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki should well be taken as anti-United States.

By People's Daily Online