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Sunday, September 30, 2007 11:54 pm

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110,000 protest history text revision order

About 110,000 people held a rally in Okinawa on Saturday to demand that the education ministry retract an instruction pressuring publishers of history textbooks to remove references to the military’s involvement in forcing civilians to commit mass suicide during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.

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