peace boat founder tatsuya yoshioka joins us here in tokyo. welcome to democracy now!thank you very much. >> tell us more just what peace boat and what you are trying to do to make sure history is told accurately? >> we are organizing the cruise voyage by passenger ship like anyway., we try to bring young people to learn history through their own experience there had it is very difficult, especially for young people to study or to understand the reality of the history. they are only just learning in a classroom or university. an active way of learning about the past issues and issues. that is my strong belief. us about what you are doing onshore here in japan, what you are doing in the schools. >> that is one of the biggest problems, the government and the teachers -- they are quite on telling the truth about the past history, especially japanese invasions and aggression in the past. course, is view, of if we would really like to make a relationship with the koreans and chinese, of course we have to understand what has happened in the past. >> for a u.s. audience, an a