Rose (Japan studies, U. of Leeds, England) analyzes the international dispute that erupted in the early 1980s between Japan and China concerning alleged revision of Japanese school textbooks through the regular screening process practiced by the Ministry of Education. China and South Korea criticized downplaying the barbarity of Japanese military actions in China during the 1930s: the changing of the term from invasion to advance. She is not so concerned with the fact that the Chinese were mistaken about what the books said, as with how the incident focused international attention on the political implications of textbook production and the Ministry's control over content. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
The first book-length study to examine the re-writing of school textbooks by the Japanese Education Ministry in an attempt to play down atrocities in China during World War II. The famous textbook crisis in 1982 was at the centre of a diplomatic storm extending through the 1980s as Sino-Japanese relations were beset by a series of political controversies. This fascinating account of the period reveals that Chinese and Japanese policy-makers were more concerned with changes taking place in international and domestic politics than with adopting a correct view of history.
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