Thursday, October 1, 2009

Assembly Votes to Rewrite History

Alaska Standard
October 01, 2009
By Rebecca Logan

In 2005, Japanese government officials were criticized for publishing a textbook that whitewashed the country’s history of forcing Asian women into sexual slavery and putting civilians in labor camps during WWII. In 2006, the Chinese government received similar criticism for omitting the killing of hundreds of demonstrators during the 1989 democracy movement from school text books.

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