| Abstract | Why has it come to this? For the fifty years since the war, Japanese have allowed the vague coexistence in this country of two views of history, belonging to the two superpowers who divided the globe, the United States and the Soviet Union. The content of history textbooks provides one good example of the conflation of these two views. Although the two were originally opposed in principle, the historical views of these two countries have merged and coexisted in the minds of postwar Japanese intellectuals. As the victors in the war with Japan, both denied Japan's historical past. As a result, we have lost sight of Japan's own historical consciousness.
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