Four ruling and opposition lawmakers left for Japan Wednesday to apply for a provisional injunction to stop the production and sale of the controversial history
textbooks for Japanese junior high school students.

The four lawmakers are Reps. Ham Seung-hui and Song Young-gil from the ruling Millennium Democratic Party and Reps. Kim Won-wung and Bae Ki-sun.

The Korean lawmakers will file the application for the injunction with the Tokyo District Court against eight Japanese publishers who produce the history books that are said to vindicate atrocities committed by the Japanese army before and during World War II.

In a news conference prior their departure, the lawmakers said, that with the help of Japanese lawyers specializing in human rights, we will first bring a suit against Fuso Publishing Co., which is deemed to harbor the greatest ill-intent in making the distorted textbooks."

Should the trial go ahead, the lawmakers said Korean historians would be called as witnesses to pinpoint the fallacies in the textbooks.