Does high school in Japan educate students on the facts of WW2?

Question:

WW2 is taught prominently during my high school history class, people say this is not taught in Japan, is that the case or do the facts get altered? Many people here seem to think Germany actually killed more people during WW2!

Germany: approximately 6 million Jews killed, 20 million Russians killed

Japan: approximately 7 million (Filipinos, Malays, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Indonesians and Burmese combined), 23 million ethnic Chinese


http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n22/chalmers-jo…

Answer:

Yes, we do.
Japanese students learn about the 20th century history not only from their textbooks but from the news papers, TV programs and the youtube videos. Many of them are fairly informed about Japan-Sinno War (1895), Japan-Russo War (1905), the result of WWI, including the Treaty of Versailles (1919), and the subsequent Japanese militarism into Manchuria (1932) and Chinese mainland (1937) until our attack on Pearl Harbor (1941). In general, Japanese students are more knowledgeable about world history than American and Chinese students; otherwise, they cannot graduate from high school.

Their college exams require deeper and wider knowledge about world history. They have fairly balanced knowledge about WWII compared with your very limited and deviated crap.