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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS THAT
WILL FOCUS TEACHING AND
LEARNING:
• Students will investigate the continued
denial of atrocities by the post- war
and current Japanese governments, the
international reactions to these denials,
and the efforts at redress.
• Students will investigate current
legal efforts to force the Japanese
government to (a) recognize the crimes
committed, (b) formally apologize for the
acts, and (c) remunerate the victims for
their pain and suffering.
GUIDING QUESTIONS:
• What was the San Francisco Treaty of
1951? How is it connected with Japanese
denial?
• How does the Japanese government
deny the Nanking Massacre?
• Do any Japanese admit that the
massacre occurred and that hundreds of
thousands of Chinese civilians and POWs
were murdered?
• Why has the Chinese government not
cut diplomatic ties with the Japanese to
force the Japanese to apologize?
• What efforts are being made to force
the Japanese to (a) recognize the crimes
committed, (b) formally apologize for the
acts, and (c) remunerate the victims for
their pain and suffering.
• What are the current redress
movements?
ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE,
SKILLS, AND ENDURING
UNDERSTANDINGS:
A: STUDENTS WILL KNOW:
The reasons that unlike the German
government after the Holocaust, the
Japanese government is denying the
Nanking massacre.
The San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951
Current redress movements
B: STUDENTS WILL
UNDERSTAND THAT:
• Eyewitness testimony in current
litigation against the present Japanese
government is essential.
• Historiography and the role of the
Historian
• Historical revisionism and denial
• Denial regarding the Nanking Massacre
• Eurocentric trends in History and
WWII as a global war
• The importance of historical records,
sources, evidence and their uses
• The meaning of activism
• Different levels and types of activism.
• The meaning of Humanitarianism
• The Power of One
• The importance of redress and political
activism
C: STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE
TO:
• Explain what redress means.
• Explain the necessity for redress.
• Explain what redress would look like.
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ASSESSMENT (EVIDENCE
OF KNOWLEDGE AND
UNDERSTANDNG):
STUDENTS WILL:
• Students will recognize the
importance of eyewitness testimony
in current litigation against the present
Japanese government.
• Students will understand the U.S. and
the Chinese government’s role in the
Japanese denial.
• Students will understand the
importance of the The San Francisco
Peace Treaty of 1951.
• Students will understand current
redress movements.
• Students will understand the role
they can play in forcing the Japanese
government to redress the Nanking
Massacre.