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.

TOKYO, Japan -- China and South Korea contend that Japanese history textbooks misrepresent Japan’s wartime activities and colonization of the early 20th century and should be revised.

After the Tiananmen Square Massacre: A Reflection on America’s China Policy Ever since 1982, when the content of Japan’s government-censored textbooks first became an international issue ...

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.

[Photo: cntv.com] Japan's new textbook revisions provide another example of how the Japanese government, under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has plotted one trick after another to whitewash Japan's ...

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 ...

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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 ...