it's deep into the german culture of looking at the stereotype but if you're going to see from the countryside our. dear eugene ridiculous grammar their own belief goes it's all about their new primary job join me to meet the germans on the w. post. this is d w news asia coming up on this program 30 years ago students in china took to tiananmen square demanding change the government responded with bullets the world commemorates china pretends the incident never happened and. tiptoeing around a taboo subject why do many japanese teens give sex education in their schools the only great.
chant welcome to the program it's good to have you with us the chinese government's crackdown in and around tiananmen square in 1989 came to be symbolized by this iconic image of one man blocking a tank advance for weeks students had occupied the space demanding economic and political reforms and eventually officials had had enough they declared martial law and the military moved in beginning in the early hours of june 4th soldiers fired on civilians as to its range from a few 100 to several 1000 people killed the movement was successfully suppressed and its memory has also been successfully suppressed in china 1400000000 people that's a 5th of the world's population do not have ready access to the facts of what happened in tiananmen square beijing has never shown any remorse or given a clear account of what happened. a single day in 1989 completely changed
your life photos taken years before the massacre of show young family in the 1980 s. you know with her small son and her husband to mingle. he was shot 30 years ago on june 4th 1989 and died in hospital his was just one of hundreds possibly thousands of deaths that night as. the massacres the worst thing that has ever been done to people in this country the government hasn't answered the question of what happened on june 4th nor has it apologized and i regret that very much had it. not only has the government never apologized it refuses to talk about it. officially these images do not exist they are taboo. in the spring of 1989 hundreds of thousands of chinese took to the streets of
beijing to demand reforms and freedom. the uprising against the communist leadership was spearheaded by students i was one of their leaders was valar casey who was 21 at the time he now lives in what he calls exile in taiwan. this is how he appeared on chinese state media back then today he is hardly known in china. if you look me or my name search into that say but i do the chinese version of google i don't exist chinese government i have decided to wipe. this phase of the history completely searches on chinese websites bring up no links or references to vo r k she or 989 only a dubious article with the title tianna man massacre
a myth. it's the same with school textbooks $989.00 the uprising the deaths all absent. the evening news on june 4th was mostly state propaganda but one detail belied the truth the anchors wore black to signify sorrow and sympathy about the deaths after the broadcast the female anchor doocy on was barred from ever presenting the news again the official forgetting have begun. you've ha whose husband died in 1909 is working against this forced amnesia she wants to remember jean 4th and regularly meets others who lost loved ones that day but they say the state is bullying and watching them. or whatever if everyone in this country had access to information about what happened to be furious but the government has concealed it
for 30 years i've just because young people today know very little about it doesn't mean it didn't happen. indeed it did happen but the subject is off limits for the chinese leadership forgetting in suppression instead of remembering silence and no apology but not everyone is playing along joining me now is louisa lim author of the people's republic of amnesia tiananmen revisited a book about the power of propaganda and we said give us a sense of just how thorough that you re sure and propaganda has been you asia has been surprisingly effective in china and particularly amongst young people those people who are not yet born at the time and 989 when i was writing my book i went around the campuses of universities and i asked 100 students whether they could identify the picture of time that famous picture of the young man
standing in front of a line of tanks and only 15 out of 100 people knew what it was it was interesting because it was we obvious who knew what it was and who just from their body language so it was quite clear also from the questions that they asked me that they simply had never seen this image before and that was something that really surprised me. there are 1400000000 people in china i know that you did a little bit of a poll in on the college campus but is it really possible that the vast majority of people in china have no idea tianna and happened and is a possible that some people do know they just can't talk about it openly. well 2 i mean for sure there were people who lived through those events and then have decided over time not to talk about them and i think what we've seen is that the real cost of active at memory of talking about what happened is commemorating it in any way has become higher and higher and so people have made the decision not to
remember not to talk about it and to erase it from their own own memories but we're also seeing quite a lot of evidence that even young people. who might be in a position to know don't i mean we saw one instance where a newspaper printed a picture of students or people with bullet wounds being rushed to hospital from 989 and then the reason that picture was printed was because no one working at the newspaper not the page editor or the picture editor not even the censor no one recognized what that picture was so it's a real sign that the collective institutional memory of june the 4th has been quite effectively arrays ok is there any scenario you think that it's possible the chinese government would finally acknowledge what happened in 1989. i mean they don't deny what happened is just that the government is not changing its line on it
and this year we've seen comments from a government official from the defense minister and also an editorial in a government newspaper in the global times which really sort of doubles down on the government position and says what we did back then was right in fact the editorial says this move inoculation china against future turmoil and so allowed china to become which and powerful so that the government line and that shows absolutely no sign of changing anytime soon louisa lim thank you. thank you. moving on to japan and it's public education it's a country where sex seems to be out in the open for example in pornographic comic books sold at nearly every convenience store but the country is also very conservative parents tiptoe around the subject of sex a survey released last year suggest sex education at school is minimal leaving many
students confused and short of answers. it's no origin rescale day here at tokyo's middle school. 6 education is on today's lesson plan in what is probably the industrialized world least in lightened country when it comes to human sexuality classes separated boys here girls there and not all of them will get advice from their parents you know when it's not if i can talk about it at home and i don't have any older siblings either. in class we don't go into much detail with some of the topics but this plenty of information online much of it is h mistreated but it's easy to get around so we look at it there. are. the 9th graders are in the midst of puberty surrounded by anime and online pornography but their teachers do not actually talk
about the to be topics of sexual intercourse contraception or abortion sex ed in japanese schools is complex but it seems seems to be surpassed on as little information as possible but. the fear is that if they know too much it will lead to an increase in on wanted pregnancy so many girls are getting pregnant because they're getting the wrong information. if sexuality isn't properly discussed at home then i think it's up to the schools to fulfill that role. with nothing. but the ban on frank discussion and school creates a. aqim of knowledge that can result in sexual behavior disorders ignorance over birth control methods sexually transmitted disease and even unwanted pregnancies in order to protect their children from this fate these mothers are attending as workshop the former nurse talks openly she asks what do i tell my child if he or
she frequently masturbate serve used at a young age many are too embarrassed even to voice questions like these. many mothers have problems talking about it that they never experienced it when they were kids but they were this and this relaxed environment mothers play games to lower their inhibitions against self-confidence has to educate the parents before they can teach their children. i didn't know anything when i had my 1st period i thought it would just happen once and then be over my family could traditional red rice to mark the occasion i had absolutely no idea what was going on. thanks to a card game from workshop a sucker is having an easier time talking to her daughter about sex it's an important conversation that has better equipped her daughter for the transition to adulthood. that's right we don't cover this in school but
it's better to know this i understand it now now i know how a baby is made. and i also know how i would have a child they couldn't. unlike many japanese this 10 year old now understands the basics of human sexuality but it's not just about the physical act feelings are also involved. take in the usa i would like to know more about what girls experience how do they get pregnant what happens after that is it painful that would really help in understanding the opposite sex and in getting to know one another. the whole. understanding is hard to achieve in a claim it where young people are too shy to ask questions perience keep silent and schools up hold the status quo. but these mothers have understated that they are
after all talking about the most natural thing in the world. that's it for now be sure to check out our other stories on t v dot com for slash or on facebook and twitter we continue our coverage of the challenge square anniversary tomorrow to see you next time goodbye. rock n roll. sinful ribs. by the church. i know that evil feeling that you feel when you fight. to. stop no one is more popular than jesus comes the. rock and religion
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