The view of history presented by "The University of Tokyo's Student Mobilization and Student Departure," edited by the History and Archives Room of the University of Tokyo ,the University of Tokyo Press, 1998.
Such a sentence appears at the beginning of "The University of Tokyo's Student Mobilization, Student Departure," edited by the History and Archives Room of the University of Tokyo, which was taken up in this article. The person who wrote this is Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, who was the president of the University of Tokyo from 1993 to 1997.
It is a model of high-quality sentences and can be understood obediently. Hiroyuki Yoshikawa is from the Faculty of Engineering and is not a historian. He describes his understanding of history as follows.
I think it is quite frank to say, "We probably cannot and should not unify our understanding of history."
In 2005, history researchers from Japan, China, and South Korea gathered to create a textbook on modern and contemporary history of the three East Asian countries (Japan-China-Korea Trilateral History Teaching Material Committee "History that opens the future").
I am not a student of history, so I cannot judge from this book whether the facts are accurately described. It is also possible that new historical facts have been discovered between 2005 and now. Nevertheless, the fact remains that historical researchers from the three countries have jointly produced a single product.
Unfortunately, the current situation in the three countries does not allow such joint work to continue. But such a situation should not be allowed to continue.
Seventy-seven years have passed since 1945, and the facts before 1945 may no longer be discovered. In that case, the issue will be how to pass on what we know to the next generation. Finally, let's draw the text of Mr. Hiroyuki Yoshikawa again.
I would like the students who enrolled in the University of Tokyo to read at least this sentence at the beginning of this book, "The University of Tokyo's Student Mobilization and Student Departure".