| | | Find the Knowledge You Need with These Textbooks!! | myLot Discussions| Japan orders textbook changes on disputed history | | Japan's education ministry ordered high school textbook publishers on Friday to change descriptions of controversial wartime incidents including the Nanjing massacre.
In a screening of textbooks to be used from Apirl 2008,publishers giving only one figure for the number of victims in the 1937 Nanjing massacre were told they "did not make note of variouts studies,"the official said.
Some right-wing Japanese historians play down the 1937 massacre in which Japanese invaders killed more than 300,000 Chinese men,women and children.
The official said publishers which had only put the number of victims as "200,000 or more"or "more than 100,000"were told to add more to text, while those giving multiple figures were given approval.
Japan angered China and South Korea in 2005 when it approved a junior high school textbook published by Fusosha Publishing Inc which critics said whitewashed Tokyo's militaristic past.
Fusosha does not publish history textbook for high schools and were therefore not part of this year's screening,the education minditry official said.... | |
| | Hu's five points show way for China-Japan ties | | Editor's Note: At a seminar sponsored by China Daily last week, leading researchers on Japan studies analyzed current Sino-Japanese relations and offered their opinions on how to improve and develop bilateral ties. The following are some of their thoughts. When meeting Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Indonesia on April 23, Chinese President Hu Jintao, who was there attending the Asia-Africa Summit, proposed five points on improving and developing Sino-Japanese relations. First, friendly and co-operative Sino-Japanese relations orientated towards the 21st century should be developed on the basis of the three political documents, namely, the Sino-Japanese Joint Statement, the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship and the Sino-Japanese Joint Declaration. Second, the issue of history should be taken seriously by adhering to the principle of "taking history as a mirror and looking forward to the future." Japan should back up its remorse on wartime aggression with action and deal with historical issues in a serious and prudent manner. Third, the Taiwan question should be handled properly. Fourth, the differences between China and Japan should... | |
| | Looming Sino-Japanese naval Clash possible? | | The recent furor over Japan's refusal to acknowledge its wartime crimes against humanity against the Chinese people has manifested itself in an upsurge in anti-Japanese sentiment throughout China in the form of protests, oftentimes violent, in front of Japanese consulates and boycotting of Japanese products. It is important to bear in the mind though that the Chinese people are not directing their ire against the Japanese people in general but against the Japanese government and a segment of the Japanese people who are bent on being partisans of their government's tilt towards the country's pre-WWII jingoistic attitude.An important underlying issue between the current Sino-Japanese dispute is the disputed East China Sea which is contested by the two countries which is home to rich gas reserves, most of which remain unexploited. After over 30 years, the Tokyo has given the green light to Japanese companies to tap gas reserves in what it claims to be part of its economic zone. Beijing, on the other hand, holds on steadfastly to China's rightful claim that the area lies in sovereign Chinese territory. Japan, has thus no legitimate right to lay claim over its so-called economic... | |
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This impressive site from Steven Mintz at the University of Houston includes an up-to-date U.S. history textbook; annotated primary sources on United States, Mexican American, and Native American history, and slavery; and succinct essays on the history of ethnicity and immigration, film, private life, and science and technology. Visual histories of Lincoln's America and America's Reconstruction contain text by Eric Foner and Olivia Mahoney. The Doing History feature lets users reconstruct the past through the voices of children, gravestones, advertising, and other primary sources. Reference resources include classroom handouts, chronologies, encyclopedia articles, glossaries, and an audio-visual archive including speeches, book talks and e-lectures by historians, and historical maps, music, newspaper articles, and images. The site's Ask the HyperHistorian feature allows users to pose questions to professional historians. | |
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