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While I was in Japan I got my hands on a Japanese history textbook.
在日本的时候，我看到了这样一本历史教材。
But this isn't an ordinary Japanese textbook, it's a very political one.
但它并不是普通的历史教材，而是带有强烈政治色彩的一本历史教材。
And if you look inside,
打开看看，
you'll see a version of history that is very different from the one the world knows.
你就会发现，里面讲述的历史跟世界人民印象中的历史有着很大的出入。
An example is the Nanking Massacre,
南京大屠杀就是一个例子，
the 1938 event in which Japanese troops murdered tens of thousands of Chinese civilians.
在发生于1938年的这次事件中，日军屠杀了数以万计的中国平民。
To the world, this massacre is considered one of the most infamous war crimes commited by the Japanese during their takeover of Asia,
在世界人民眼中，这次屠杀是公认的，日本在侵略亚洲期间犯下的，最无耻的战争罪行之一，
but in this textbook, it basically gets no attention.
但这本书对此基本上是只字未提。
It's referred to as the "Nanking Incident"
将这次大屠杀说成是“南京事件”，
and the only attention it gets in this book is basically disputing the facts.
整本书里唯一的一点笔墨基本上也是在否认事实。
There's no mention of the hundreds of thousands of Korean women
也完全没有提到那数十万
who were forcibly brought over to serve in brothels on the front lines of the Japanese wars.
被强迫送到前线充当军妓的朝鲜女性。
They're these comfort women that are a huge part of Japanese history,
她们就是所谓的慰安妇，她们在日本历史上发挥了非常重要的作用，
but they don't show up in this book.
却并没有出现在这本教材里。
When I was in Tokyo for a Borders story,
其实，在东京拍“国境”系列节目期间，
I actually visited the people who publish and write this book.
我还去拜访了撰写并出版这一教科书的那些人。
It's this group of old Japanese men who are part of this lobbying society
他们都已经上了年纪，也都是游说团体的成员，
that basically try to push a different historical narrative into Japanese schools, and they've been quite successful.
而他们的工作基本上就是在日本校园里推行一种不同的历史观，还推行得很成功。
This textbook publishing society is one of many expressions of a rising Nationalism in Japan.
多种迹象都表明日本民族主义情绪正在抬头，这个教材出版团体的存在就是例子。
This is Makoto Sakurai.
这是樱井诚。
He's the public face for the Japan First Party.
他是日本第一党现任党首。
This group launched just a month after another rightwing faction across the Pacific Ocean took power of the White House,
就在该党成立的一个月前，同样是右翼分子的某人在太平洋彼岸入主白宫了，
proclaiming a like-minded message.
宣扬的也是相似的民族主义思想。
"America First! America First!"
“美国第一！美国第一！”
Within the first five minutes of Sakurai, and even through a translator,
跟樱井谈话不到五分钟，即便中间还有翻译，
I could tell that this guy would get along great with Donald Trump.
我都能感觉到，这哥们儿应该跟特朗普很合得来。
Sakurai's Japan First Party hasn't won any elections yet,
樱井领导的日本第一党暂时还没有赢过大选，
but other Nationalists in Japan have, including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2012.
但日本的其它民族主义党派已经赢过了，比如，2012年，安倍晋三就赢得了内阁总理大臣的选举。
He has surrounded himself with advisers and ministers from some of these fringe groups, who are now influencing policy.
他在自己身边安排了很多原本处在政治圈外围，如今却对国家政策起着决定性作用的顾问及大臣。
Up until now, these guys, and yes most of them are guys,
到目前为止，这些哥们儿，是的，他们中大多都是男性，
have been known for driving around in their decked out vans, preaching the restoration of Japan's pre-World War II greatness.
一直都是干开着那些全副武装的宣传车到处转悠，宣扬重回二战前的伟大时代这行的。
Their agenda is similar to nationalist movements in other countries:
他们的计划与其它国家的民族主义运动并无太大不同：
they want to restore strong military,
重建起一支强大的军队，
they call for the deportation of Koreans and limitation to the little immigration that Japan even has.
呼吁把日本境内的朝鲜人赶出去，进一步收缩日本本就已经近乎零移民的移民政策。
I chased after these guys and filmed them for an afternoon, watching them spar with the Tokyo police.
我跟在这些人后面拍了他们一个下午，看着他们跟东京的警察斗嘴。
