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| Subject: Japan rebuffs international outcry over new history textbooks Wed Apr 08, 2015 3:19 am | |
| Japan on Tuesday rebuffed neighbouring countries' protests about newly approved textbooks after complaints about references to disputed territory and their bitter shared history.
The education ministry announced on Monday that all 18 new social studies textbooks for use in junior high schools assert Japanese ownership of two separate island groups at the centre of disputes with China and South Korea.
New school books also fail to use the word "massacre" when referring to Japan's mass slaughter of Chinese civilians in Nanjing in 1937, preferring the term "incident".
The textbook dispute surfaces regularly in the three-way row over events in the first half of the 20th century, when Japan invaded and occupied large tracts of Asia.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/27004234/japan-rebuffs-international-outcry-over-new-history-textbooks/ |
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