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Textbook author to seek correction on Okinawa mass suicides

A history textbook author said Saturday that he is set to revise his textbook to restore a statement that the Japanese military forced civilians to commit mass suicides during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa and will file the modification with the education ministry by around Friday.

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