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Shigereu Miyagawa & John Dower at MIT study Japanese Nazis art

Dear sir or madam,

http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027j/throwing_off_asia/toa_core_01.html

A Professor Shigery Miyagawa posted for his course at MIT. In these
webpages, Miyagawa posted a number of drawings, which he called ARTS and
many of these drawings depict beheading of Chinese civilians and soldiers
by Japanese captorss during the 1894-1895 Japanese invasion war to China.

With all due respect, I find this explanation totally irresponsible and
disappointing. These drawings and comments from Professor Miyagawa glorify
the atrocity committed by Japanese army to Chinese citizens during the 1894
Sino-Japan war.

Academic freedom is not to be exercised without boundary. I challenge
MIT President Hockfield and Professor Miyagawa to find any artistic value in
the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the oven-burning of Jews in Holocaust, the
beheading of American captive in Iraq，or the victims jumping off the world
trade center on 9/11.

It is my impression that the administration at MIT have not taken this matter
seriously, and I sincerely hope the handling or mishandling of this incident
does not damage MIT's integrity and reputation as one of the most prestigious
institutions in the world.

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• make in taiwan = make in japen -嫖賭飲吹- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/25/2006 postreply 09:44:48

• updated -bizinfoex- ♂ (1356 bytes) () 04/25/2006 postreply 09:54:32

• using art that depicting beheadings to represent -thrawn- ♂ (77 bytes) () 04/25/2006 postreply 15:03:47