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Gov’t rethinks textbook revision
In an effort to soothe the feelings of the people of Okinawa Prefecture who have been outraged by an education ministry instruction that publishers remove from high school textbooks references to the Japanese military forcing civilians to commit mass suicide during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, the government Tuesday suggested it would consider requests by publishers to “correct” textbook passages.
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