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Yomiuri: Don’t allow interference in textbook screening

Four textbook publishers have applied to the Education, Science and Technology Ministry to reinsert in high school textbooks phrases stating that the Japanese military forced residents to commit mass suicide during the Battle of Okinawa. The revived phrases will be carried in Japanese history textbooks for the next academic year.

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