> We read, in our histories of Asia, that officials in the Japanese empire of the 1930s had similar views - that it was the duty of the Japanese nation to lead the rest of Asia to a modern, civilized state.

A lot of early american history from the expansion period is foggy, so there is no way to prove it didn't happen in america, but i know from what i've absorbed that thousands of chinese were used in germ warfare experiments not unlike the tuskeegee experiments

as far as educational systems are concerned, the textbooks in the us school systems on us history, specifically the early years of the US, are as much based on myth as fact.