Japan’s ambassador to South Korea, Koichi Aiboshi, is summoned to the Foreign Ministry on Friday. (Yonhap)
South Korea’s Foreign Ministry on Friday summoned Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Koichi Aiboshi to formally protest Japan’s approval of historical past textbooks asserting sovereignty over the Dokdo islets and watering down the coercive nature of its wartime compelled labor and sexual slavery.
The Foreign Ministry in Seoul additionally expressed “deep regret” over the Japanese authorities’s approval of textbooks for center faculties that distort historic details in a press release issued underneath the identify of the ministry’s spokesperson.
The ministry referred to as on Japan to offer historical past training primarily based on the “spirit of apology.”
The remarks come after Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology accredited the usage of 18 college textbooks within the social research class, which incorporates historical past, geography and civics, ranging from 2025 for center faculties.
Seoul’s Education Ministry additionally urged Japan to right away redress the problem.
“To untie the knot between South Korea and Japan and move toward a more constructive relationship, it’s pivotal to start by correcting (Japan’s) continued assertions of sovereignty over Dokdo and historical distortions,” it mentioned in a press release.
The ministry additionally lambasted the Japanese authorities for additional watering down the coercive nature in describing sexual slavery claims and compelled labor in addition to its territorial claims to the Dokdo islets, in comparison with these accredited in 2020.