自じ虐ぎゃく史し観かん

noun

masochistic view of history; self-tormenting historical view

A critical term, often used in political or historical discourse, for a perspective that emphasizes one's own country's or group's past wrongdoings in a self-flagellating manner.

• 彼かれは自じ虐ぎゃく史し観かんに基もとづいた教きょう科か書しょを批ひ判はんした。

  He criticized textbooks based on a masochistic view of history.

• 自じ虐ぎゃく史し観かんから脱だっ却きゃくすべきだという意い見けんもある。

  There is also an opinion that we should break away from a self-tormenting historical view.