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Japanese Textbooks Backpedal on History of Massacre

Written: 2012-07-20 13:41:30Updated: 2012-07-20 18:11:14

Japanese Textbooks Backpedal on History of Massacre

The Yokohama education office has decided to change the wording in a supplementary textbook for middle schools in Yokohama, Japan.

The textbook included a sentence admitting for the first time that after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, Japanese soldiers and police massacred Koreans. However, the word “massacre” will be downplayed and once again the word "murder" will be used to describe the incident in the text.

Japan's Sankei Shimbun reported that the Yokohama education office decided to change back the term, explaining the word “massacre” is subjective.

The revised version of the history textbook this year stated that the Japanese military and police were involved in the massacre of Koreans after the Great Kanto Earthquake. However, conservative media in Japan were strongly opposed to the revised edition.

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