Japan's miseducation

From: China Daily | Date: April 9, 2005 | Copyright information

The school textbooks authorized by the Japanese Ministry of Education on Tuesday not only put South Korea and Japan on a collision course but also fuel growing nationalist sentiments in Northeast Asia.

The confrontation between the two nations is certain to escalate since the textbooks were designed to reinforce Japan's claim to Dokdo, a group of islands in the East Sea, while making few changes to the distorted descriptions of history. The Japanese call the islands Takeshima.

What makes a head-on clash inevitable is the fact that two widely used citizenship textbooks, in addition to the ...

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