This category is for sites on Japanese nationalist, revisionist, and conservative movements to rewrite Japanese history school textbooks, particularly on Japanese military involvement in Asia in the first half of the 20th century.
Websites submitted here must be Japan related and in
English. Sites in Japanese should be submitted to the
appropriate World / Japanese subcategory.
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Essay on the importance of history textbooks, background on the Japan textbook controversies, the current situation, and lessons for Americans. From the National Clearinghouse for US-Japan Studies at Indiana University. www.indiana.edu/~japan/Digests/textbook.html
Documents recent fights on rewriting Japanese history textbooks involving nationalistic revisionists against mainstream historians, by Takashi Yoshida of Columbia University. www.aasianst.org/Viewpoints/yoshida.htm
Describes the tug-of-war between those wanting history textbooks to be used for instilling pride and nationalism versus those advocating an objective and balanced view of the past. www.artsci.wustl.edu/~copeland/textbook.htm
Article in Asiaweek detailing the uproar caused by ultranationalists and conservatives attempting to rewrite Japanese history texts. www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/97/0314/nat3.html
Documents several cases of ultraconservatives pushing and the government's use of school textbooks that distort history, manipulate facts, ignore historical research and issues of Comfort Women and Unit 731, and glorify Japanese aggression during East As www.ne.jp/asahi/kyokasho/net21/english_contents.htm
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