Until not long ago, there was a strong left-wing current in education and some of the media that used Japan’s horrendous wartime record as an argument against any kind of revisionism. But, as long as the Japanese left used history to make this political argument, the nationalists pushed back by claiming that stories of wartime atrocities had been greatly exaggerated.
直到不久前，在教育及部分传媒界仍然存在着一股强大的左翼力量，利用日本可怕的战争纪录反对任何形式的修宪企图。但只要左翼用历史证明自己的政治观点，民族主义者就拼命反击，称战时暴行的故事被极度夸大了。