Get out that ol' bucket of whitewash paint.

[BigElCat]

Originally Posted by Oerets

For some reason I just was reminded, one of my brothers talking about being in Japan in the eighties. Said the girl he was seeing over there asked him why the U.S. started the war with them?

So it seems this country is not the only one having difficulties with the telling of the past.

The USA systematically provoked Japan into committing an overt act of war against the USA in order to sway public opinion about entering WW2.

It's a fact. Endorsed by FDR, Henry Stimson the then Secretary of War, and written by a Naval Intelligence officer named Arthur McCollum.

Where and when wars start are always matters of opinion, surrounded by propaganda.

Believe what you want. Your brother's GF wasn't necessarily wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCollum_memo