Directory > Regional > Asia > Japan > Education > Historical Revisionism 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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 past. http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~copeland/textbook.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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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 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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History Textbooks: For Whom and for What Purpose? Documents recent fights on rewriting Japanese history textbooks involving nationalistic revisionists against mainstream historians, by Takashi Yoshida of Columbia University. http://www.aasianst.org/Viewpoints/yoshida.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Examining the Japanese History Textbook Controversies Essay on the importance of history textbooks, background on the Japan textbook controversies, the current situation, and lessons for Americans. From the National Clearinghouse for US-Japan Studies at Indiana University. http://www.indiana.edu/~japan/Digests/textbook.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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The Distortion and the Revision of History in Postwar Japanese Textbooks, 1945-1998 Shows objectives, significance, and background of successive postwar attempts to change Japanese history books, by sociologist Tomochika Okamoto. http://member.nifty.ne.jp/Tomochika/Index_Original.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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