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Japan is moving to have more of the government perspective in textbooks even as it allows private companies to publish them. Whether it's the government or private publishers that make textbooks doesn

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Kwon Sung Youn, a South Korean education ministry official handling textbooks. Textbooks have become part of the front line in East Asia's propaganda war as recent administration changes in China, Japan and Korea see leaders fomenting nationalism to bolster their hold on power. (Bloomberg)

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Yeah, I think all three of these countries do reprehensible things with their textbooks.

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Perhaps the Korean guy could give his opinion on Korean text books, how they portray the Korean version of history.

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I agree with both of the above comments... you'd think the South Koreans and Chinese were completely innocent of any kind of military violence... such as massacres by the South Koreans military of their own people during the Korean War calling them traitors and the Chinese massacring their own people during the Cultural Revolution. Or is it okay to kill your own people?

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Their all at in East Asia. They are confusing propaganda with education-but at least they don't have to recite 'The pledge of allegiance' every SINGLE day.

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