ASDF chief urges students to learn about foreign views of WWII

TOKYO, Japan - Air Self-Defense Force chief Gen. Toshio Tamogami delivers a special lecture at the University of Tokyo's Yasuda Auditorium on May 24, urging students to support the Self-Defense Forces and learn more about foreign views on Japan's wartime military and World War II. ''There are many views in Japan that Japan went to war because it was an aggressive country...But there are many reports (in foreign countries) suggesting Japan was not. I want you to learn not only the one-sided views in Japan but both,'' Tamogami said.

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