Officials in Tokyo rejected a request by the South Korean government to include accounts of Japanese wartime atrocities in the books. The refusal has led to a chill in relations between the two ...

Ever since 1982, when the content of Japan’s government-censored textbooks first became an international issue, Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, and Technology (MEXT) has been no ...

Chanting, “Japan, apologize,” and “Japan, tell the truth,” more than 200 Asian American protesters Tuesday demanded that the Japanese government pull back new history textbooks that they ...

Kinjo agreed to tell his story again because the Japanese government is now denying, in new high school textbooks, that Okinawans had been coerced by imperial troops into committing mass suicide.

Fueling an international dispute over wartime history, Japan’s government approved a new public school textbook Tuesday that China and South Korea immediately denounced as “poison” for ...

The approval of the textbooks has caused a diplomatic storm The Japanese government's approval of a set of controversial history textbooks has reignited bitter disputes over the region's past in the ...

In the modern Japanese language textbook "Gendai no Kokugo," works by musicians and entertainers, such as Gen Hoshino and Neru Nagahama, were also included. Taishukan Publishing Co. initially ...

All but 10 of the country’s 542 public school districts have said they will not use the textbooks that critics say gloss over Japan’s military aggression before and during World War II.