Japanese history textbook controversies Japanese history textbook controversies The Anti-Japanese demonstrations of 2005 are demonstrations that happened in spring 2005 in China and Korea to protest against a Japanese history textbook "Atarashii Rekishi Kyokasho" (新しい歴史教科書) or "New History Textbook" which downplays or " whitewashes" the nature of Japan's military aggression in the Sino-Japanese War, in Japan's annexation of Korea in 1910, and in World War II. The textbook was written by the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform, a conservative Japanese organization, which, as its name implies, aims to revise Japanese history to suit its rightist ends. It whitewashes wartime atrocities, de-emphasizes the subject of the Chinese and Korean comfort women, and avoids contemporary issues surrounding Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to the Yasukuni shrine in honor of dead Japanese soldiers, where the enshrined include the names of many convicted and executed war criminals. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anti-Japanese demonstrations, 2005"
(Excerpts from government-approved Japanese history textbooks) # March 1st Movement: ...more on Wikipedia about "Excerpts from government-approved Japanese history textbooks"
The Japanese textbook controversies is a series of controversies over the government-approved history textbooks used in the secondary education of Japan (junior high school and high school). The controversies primarily concern the constitutionality of the government authorization system itself and the textbook descriptions of the wars and imperialism conducted by the Imperial Japan in the first half of the 20th century that the post-war Japanese government has been accused of whitewashing by the Japanese activists as well as the governments of South Korea and the People's Republic of China. ...more on Wikipedia about "Japanese history textbook controversies"
Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform (新しい歴史教科書をつくる会) is a group founded in 1997 to promote a revised view of Japanese history. The group was responsible for authoring a history textbook published from Fusosha (扶桑社), which was heavily criticised by China and South Korea for not including full accounts of or downplaying wartime activities of Imperial Japan during World War II, such as reference to the Nanjing Massacre (南京大虐殺) as "Nanjing Incident" (南京事件) and forgoing use of the term " comfort women" (慰安婦). The textbook also highlighted Japan's claim to Liancourt Rocks (Takeshima) and Senkaku Islands whose sovereignty is being disputed by Korea and China. ...more on Wikipedia about "Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform"
*Source: Japan Federation of Publishing Workers' Union ( 日本出版労働組合連合 ), Kyokasho Report 2002 (教科書レポート), No. 46. ...more on Wikipedia about "Market share of government-approved Japanese history textbooks"
Saburo Ienaga (家永 三郎 Ienaga Saburō: September 3, 1913 - November 29 2002) was a Japanese historian. Ienaga graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1937. He served as a professor at Tokyo University of Education (東京教育大, today's University of Tsukuba ) from 1949 to 1977 and at Chuo University from 1977 to 1984. Ienaga is known for a series of law suits against school textbook authorization (教科書検定) conducted by Japan's Ministry of Education. Ienaga was nominated for the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize by Noam Chomsky among others. ...more on Wikipedia about "Saburo Ienaga"
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