New school textbook in Japan have replaced terms like “forcibly mobilized” with “participated” and reaffirmed Japanese sovereignty over Dokdo. This changes symbolize right wing political pressure, which downplayed Japanese military’s role in mass suicides and comfort women that betrayed South…
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“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…
“Our country’s textbook screening is carried out impartially and neutrally, based on professional and academic deliberations,” Suga told a news conference. “Since our country’s stance on Takeshima and history recognition have been consistent, we responded to (South Korea) by saying we…
“China urged Japan on Tuesday to properly educate its youth, joining South Korea in condemning Japan’s approval of textbooks its neighbors say distort history by claiming disputed islands.”
“The education ministry on Monday announced the results of its latest textbook screenings and the content of new textbooks to be used in middle schools from the next academic year. All social studies textbooks for middle school students will include descriptions…
“Diplomatic tensions are rising as Japan is said to have maintained in its diplomatic blue book the territorial claim over South Korea`s easternmost islets of Dokdo, which Japan calls Takeshima.”
“History textbooks in Korea and Japan are still riddled with inaccuracies in their descriptions of Korea’s March 1 Independence Movement 96 years ago, the catalysis of Korea’s fight against Japan’s colonial rule (1910-1945)…”
19 U.S.-based Historians, members of the American Historical Association, issued a collective statement entitled “Standing with Historians of Japan,” strongly condemning PM Abe’s recent efforts to revise depictions of ‘comfort women’ in a history textbook published by McGraw-Hill (“Tradition & Encounters:…
Conservative/Center-right newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun calls to end “misunderstanding due to ‘comfort women’ in textbooks.” The article closes by making two assertions: first, “doubts have been raised about the conventionally accepted theory that the overwhelming majority of comfort women were Korean,” and there…
Article from the New York Times, October 12, 2014: By Michael Fitzpatrick TOKYO — Japan’s simultaneous embrace of nationalism and cosmopolitanism is generating ambiguous signals from its education policy makers. They are rewriting textbooks along what they call “patriotic” lines, alienating…
This article in the Japan Daily Press looks how textbooks will likely change to reflect the Japanese government’s position on territorial disputes.
Click here to view the official White House transcript of the April 24th, 2014 Joint Press Conference with President Obama and Prime Minister Abe. In this press conference, the two leaders commented on the issue of disputed territory and President Obama…
Japan’s social studies textbooks to include disputed territories reports the Japan Daily Press
Japan, Korea and Textbook History – This New York Times Opinion letter brings together reactions to the Time’s earlier piece (Jan 13, 2014) ‘Politicians and Textbooks’ which discusses efforts by Prime Minister Abe and President Park to alter the history in…
High school teaching manuals up for revision, to include Senkakus and Takeshima as Japanese territories – reports the Japan Daily Press
Politicians and Textbooks – A New York Times editorial that looks at Prime Minister Abe and President’s Parks attempts to alter history textbooks
History textbook wars cross borders – This opinion piece in The Japan Times explores how Japan, Germany, China, and the US have confronted their history in textbooks and whether or not any of them have truly escaped promoting a political…
Japanese history to be mandatory during high school years reports the Japan Daily Press
A Shifting View of Japanese History – This New York Times article compares excerpts from two Japanese Textbooks – Tokyo Shoseki (the most popular ninth grade text) and Ikuhosha (a conservative text)
In Textbook Fight, Japan Leaders Seek to Recast History – This New York Times article explores Japanese Prime Minister Abe’s renewed efforts to change history textbooks and increase patriotism.
This article in the Japan Daily Press discusses the recall of books that described the massacre of Koreans by the Japanese in 1923. According to this article, the Yokohama Board of Education said this text “can cause a misunderstanding.”
South Korea to ask Japan to ‘correct’ school textbooks referring to disputed islands – reports the Japan Daily Press.