Hmm, you mind if I could borrow some of that for TTL? A good portion of that could easily be used to demonstrate how education in East Japan operated under Communism (i.e. portraying Ezô as the victim by extrapolating what happened in Hokkaidô to the rest of northern Japan, and hence - via a possible logical fallacy - suggesting that only Communism would eliminate Ezô's victimhood). Of course, I had already known about much of that - I was just a little bit fuzzy about the dates, and suggesting it in those terms as a possible presentation of the *East Japanese view of history.
(scratching head) Well it would make sense.