Children and Textbooks - Japan Network 21 - http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kyokasho/net21/english_contents.htm
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. |
Japan: Far Right Rewrites History - http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2001/455/455p22.htm
Article detailing the successful publication of revisionist history textbooks despite several protests. |
The Distortion and the Revision of History in Postwar Japanese Textbooks, 1945-1998 - http://homepage3.nifty.com/ubiquitous/
A content analysis of post-war Japanese high school history textbooks by Tomochika Okamoto of Waseda University, Tokyo. |
The Textbook Controversy - http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~copeland/textbook.htm
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. |