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| Only 0.03 Pct of Japanese Students to Use Controversial Textbook |
| Only 0.03 percent of all junior high school students in Japan will use a controversial history textbook written by a group of Japanese nationalist scholars in their classrooms next spring, according to a Kyodo News survey released Thursday. |
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| Photo Album Displaying Japanese Aggression Published |
| A photo album has been published as a memorial to over 26,000 innocent Chinese people, killed by Japanese aggressor's bombs some 60 years ago in Chongqing, southwest China. |
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| Textbooks Can't Be Tolerated: S.Korean PresidentJapan's Refusal to Revise |
| South Korean President Kim Dae-jung Tuesday said South Korea will never tolerate Japanese distortions of history in middle school textbooks. |
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| Roundup: S.Korea Tougher on Japanese Textbook Issue |
| South Korea Monday said the Japanese rejection to revise 35 passages distorting history in eight middleschool textbooks is intolerable. |
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| Negative Teaching Materials of History |
| The fact-distorted junior high school history textbook, compiled by the "new history textbook compilation committee" which is composed of Japanese right-wing scholars, has been printed and published by the Fusosya Publishing House and distributed and sold in Japan after having been examined and approved as "Pass" by the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science in April. |
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| China Can't Accept Japan's Revisions of History Textbook: FM Spokeswoman |
| China reiterated Wednesday that it cannot accept the revisions of the controversial Japanese history textbook made by the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform. |
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| China's Stance on Japanese Textbook Issue Unchanged: FM Spokeswoman |
| China has not changed its stance on the Japanese textbook issue, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said Tuesday. |
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| Japanese History Textbook Contains 56 Errors |
| A group of eminent Japanese historians said a recently approved history textbook which drew criticism from Japan's neighboring countries contains at least 56 mistakes, a leading Japanese newspaper reported Friday. |
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| Seoul to Continue Fight Against Distorted-History Japanese Textbooks |
| South Korea will continue its fight for revision of passages in eight distorted-history middle school textbooks of Japan through bilateral and multilateral channels. |
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| Human Chain Formed in Tokyo to Protest Controversial History Textbook |
| Some 300 people from Japan and several of its Asian neighbors such as China and South Korea formed a human chain around the Japanese Education Ministry in Tokyo on Monday to protest its approval of a controversial Japanese history textbook in April. |
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| Conference Held in Tokyo to Protest Contentious History Textbook |
| Some 280 people from Japan and its Asian neighbors gathered in Tokyo Sunday to protest a controversial Japanese history textbook and explore ways to jointly compile a regional history overcoming differences in interpretations, Kyodo News reported. |
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| Japanese FM Vows to Overcome Pending Issues with Beijing, Seoul |
| Japanese Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka pledged Thursday to make efforts to resolve contentious issues with China and South Korea, including the two countries' demands that Japan make additional revisions to controversial junior high school history textbooks recently approved by the Japanese government, Kyodo News reported. |
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| Japan to Deal With China's Textbook Demand Sincerely:Spokesman |
| Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda vowed Thursday to sincerely deal with China's demand the previous day to revise a controversial junior high school history textbook approved by the Japanese government for classroom use. |
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| China Once Again Demands Japan Correct Mistakes in Textbook |
| The Chinese side has once again demanded that the Japanese government take effective measures to correct its serious mistakes in the history textbook fabricated by rightist scholars. |
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| Koizumi Sticks to Textbook Decision |
| Japan will not reverse its approval for a controversial history textbook although criticisms across Asia that it whitewashes Tokyo's wartime atrocities will be seriously considered, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said on Friday. |
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| S.Korean NGOs Ally Against Japanese Textbook Issue |
| South Korea's civic and human rights organizations formed an alliance Monday for a systematic and long-term protest against the Japanese textbook issue. |
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| Daring to Shoulder Historical Responsibility: Way to Become Big Political Power |
| The event of Japan's tampering with the history textbook has stirred up an unprecedented wave of condemnation of Japan by various Asian countries, Italy, which is far off on the continent of Europe, has also shown extensive concern over the matter. A local media commentary says the revised Japanese history textbook "has stricken fear into the hearts of the people in the once Japan-occupied countries. For the people of various Asian countries, this is just like the German history textbook which denies the Nazi acts of massacre". |
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| Seoul to Make All Diplomatic Efforts to Tackle Japanese Textbook Issue |
| South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung-soo Tuesday said Seoul will make all possible diplomatic efforts to tackle the Japanese textbook issue to placate public indignation in the country. |
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| Curator of Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall Slams Japan's Distortion of Textbook |
| The distortion of the textbooks by Japan is a very serious issue because the Japanese government has legalized the act of altering the historical facts by the rightist forces, said Zhu Chengshan on Sunday, curator of the Memorial Hall to Victims of the Nanjing Massacre. |
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| Taiwan Scholars Launch Campaign on Japanese Textbooks |
| A group of Taiwan scholars launched a campaign Saturday to urge Japan to rewrite school history textbooks that gloss over its wartime role and atrocities, Taiwan's local media reported Sunday. |
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