Sino-Japanese war added to school curriculum.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: January 10, 1996| Author: McLaughlin, Ken | Copyright information

CUPERTINO, Calif. _ Firing the first shot in a battle to change the way California schoolchildren are taught the history of World War II, a Cupertino-based group has successfully persuaded the San Francisco Board of Education to add the Sino-Japanese war to its supplementary curriculum.

To most Americans, the war in the Pacific began when Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor in a sneak attack in 1941. But to many Americans of Chinese descent, the war started in 1931, when the...

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