This textbook case threw cold water on it. But on history, Japan is an exception. We would like to see the Japanese younger generations learn the historical truth. A group of revisionist historians in Japan say they want to reawaken the pride of young people in their nation. I'm not surprised at what they are doing.
Japan has a long history of distorting truth to fit their needs.
But not anymore. Such sentiments have spread beyond the single text, the Junior High School Social Studies New History Textbook. Koizumi is seen in South Korea as a right-wing nationalist. His tentative suggestions of small changes in Japan's constitutional limits on its military and his promise to visit a shrine for Japan's war dead have been viewed negatively in Korea and elsewhere in Asia. Koizumi's new foreign minister has not helped.