Historical Revisionism
This category is for sites on Japanese nationalist, revisionist, and conservative movements to rewrite Japanese history school textbooks, particularly on Japanese military involvement in Asia in the first half of the 20th century.
Children and Textbooks - Japan Network 21
- Documents several cases of ultraconservatives pushing and the government's use of school textbooks that distort history, manipulate facts, ignore historical research and issues of Comfort Women and Unit 731, and glorify Japanese aggression during East Asia.http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kyokasho/net21/english_contents.htm
The Distortion and the Revision of History in Postwar Japanese Textbooks, 1945-1998
- A content analysis of post-war Japanese high school history textbooks by Tomochika Okamoto of Waseda University, Tokyo.http://homepage3.nifty.com/ubiquitous/
Japan: Far Right Rewrites History
- Article detailing the successful publication of revisionist history textbooks despite several protests.http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2001/455/455p22.htm
The Textbook Controversy
- Describes the tug-of-war between those wanting history textbooks to be used for instilling pride and nationalism versus those advocating an objective and balanced view of the pasthttp://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~copeland/textbook.htm
The War At Home
- Article in Asiaweek detailing the uproar caused by ultranationalists and conservatives attempting to rewrite Japanese history texts.http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/97/0314/nat3.html
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