The lack of patriotic passion in Japanese textbook treatment of the war should not surprise us. Japan, after all, lost the war. That limits opportunities to spin triumphalist war stories. What is striking about Japanese public memory of the war is the lack of consensus about its meaning. No single narrative seems to dominate. For the majority, it is remembered as a war that brought grief both to fighting men and the home front; for others, it is a war of liberation fought by brave soldiers whose struggles laid the groundwork for the postwar decolonization of Asia; and for still others, it was a cruel war of aggression for which the Japanese have not yet fully atoned.
（文献：The Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution. 1995.. Luigi Luca Cavalii-Sforza and Francesco Cavalli-Sforza. Addison Wesley Publ. ISBN 0-201-44231-0）
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