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The Distortion and the Revision of History in Postwar Japanese Textbooks, 1945-1998 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. (Historical Revisionism) http://homepage3.nifty.com/ubiquitous/
Japan: Far Right Rewrites History Japan: Far Right Rewrites History: Article detailing the successful publication of revisionist history textbooks despite several protests. (Historical Revisionism) http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2001/455/455p22.htm
The War At Home The War At Home: Article in Asiaweek detailing the uproar caused by ultranationalists and conservatives attempting to rewrite Japanese history texts. (Historical Revisionism) http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/97/0314/nat3.html
Examining the Japanese History Textbook Controversies 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. (Historical Revisionism) http://www.indiana.edu/~japan/Digests/textbook.html
Information Concerning New History Textbook Information Concerning New History Textbook: Multinational group of scholars attack Japan's new pro-militarist history textbooks. (Historical Revisionism) http://www.jca.apc.org/JWRC/center/english/appeal2.htm
Children and Textbooks - Japan Network 21 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 As (Historical Revisionism) http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kyokasho/net21/english_contents.htm
History Textbooks: For Whom and for What Purpose? 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. (Historical Revisionism) http://www.aasianst.org/Viewpoints/yoshida.htm
The Textbook Controversy 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. (Historical Revisionism) http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~copeland/textbook.htm
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