A Japanese publishing company will stop publishing a school history textbook in 2012 that stresses Japan's responsibility for wartime atrocities.

Japan's Sankei Shimbun daily says Nihon Shoseki Shinsa didn't submit its history textbook to the Education Ministry for approval by the Wednesday deadline.

The textbook included many parts underlining Japan's responsibility for wartime atrocities, including sexual enslavement of Asian women by the Japanese Army during the Second World War.

The book was originally published by Nihon Shoseki, a subsidiary of Nihon Shoseki Shinsa, which took over the company after it went bankrupt in 2004.

The history textbook was once used by all school districts in Tokyo. But the textbook came under fire by Japanese rightists for allegedly being overly self-incriminating. As a result, the adoption rate by schools nose-dived, forcing the company to go bankrupt.