Study Of The Puppet Manchuria Regime In History Textbooks

The Japanese imperialists began its aggression upon northeast China when they procured the lease access of Luda and the franchise right of the South Manchurian Railway in 1905. The "918 Incident" erupted in 1931, and the Japanese occupied the Northeast China. During the brutal political domination and economic exploitation, Japanese aggressors also executed cultural aggression, colonial education and deceptive propaganda. The aggressors carried out crazy destroy upon cultural and education system in northeast China, established colonial and enslavement education system, implemented the enslavement education plan, so as to infuse the enslavement concept into the children and the people in northeast China. The colonial education in the Northeast lasted and increased during the whole War period with the aim of strengthening its colonial rule, enslaved Chinese people. In order to dominate the Northeast for long, the Japanese imperialist created a false history, put forward that the Northeast did not belong to China and they vainly attempted to dissever the Northeast from China which has a brilliant history of 5,000 years. In the history education, the Japanese distorted and misrepresented history, propagandized that the Manchukuo puppet was a dependent country with a deep origin in Japan, which showed the aggressive ambition to separate the Northeast from China. The history textbooks of the puppet Manchukuo period were an important tool to carry out colonial education. With the references of the history textbooks of primary school in puppet Manchukuo period and the Japan Industrial school history textbooks, this thesis analyzes the contents, guiding ideas and methods of the history textbooks of the puppet Manchukuo period and compares the new edition of the history textbooks in Japan.This thesis consists of a prelude and five chapters, and the main elements are as follows:Chapter one is"the history process of puppet history textbook revision ", which briefly discussed four changes of the textbooks by the Japanese colonialists in the puppet Manchukuo period. A brief discuss is made on the four textbooks edition which are the early establishment of the puppet Manchukuo, Manchukuo imperialism,...