Japanese highschool textbooks. /VCG
China has lodged a critical protest with the Japanese facet regarding distorted narratives associated to historical past in Japan’s textbooks for use by highschool college students from 2027, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian mentioned on Wednesday.
It was reported that Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology on March 24 reviewed the textbooks for use in school rooms from 2027. Some textbooks embrace descriptions suggesting there was no coercion relating to consolation ladies and compelled labor, and assert that Diaoyu Dao is “Japan’s inherent territory.”
“To obscure historical facts, play down Japan’s war crimes and seek to evade responsibility by playing on words when reviewing textbooks is Japan’s go-to tactic to deny and distort its history of aggression,” Lin mentioned at an everyday news briefing.
He mentioned China strongly deplores and firmly opposes Japan’s transfer and has lodged a critical protest with the Japanese facet.
Japan has but to make a clear break with militarism after the warfare, and its Yasukuni Shrine nonetheless honors 14 convicted Class-A warfare criminals.Â
Forcibly recruiting “comfort women” and labor is a critical crime in opposition to humanity that Japanese militarists dedicated throughout their aggression and growth, Lin mentioned, including that these are historic info clear to the entire world and backed by stable proof, and there isn’t any method they are often denied.
He confused that Diaoyu Dao and its affiliated islands have been China’s territory since historic instances, over which China has indeniable sovereignty. “No matter what small tricks the Japanese side uses regarding textbooks, they cannot change the fact that Diaoyu Dao belongs to China. Any attempt to undermine China’s territorial sovereignty is futile.”
China famous that the Republic of Korea has additionally lodged critical demarches with the Japanese facet to protest in opposition to contents in regards to the Dokdo islets and “comfort women” within the textbooks, Lin mentioned.
“This shows that Japanese far-right forces’ moves of distorting history and misleading Japanese people in their view of history have triggered high alert and strong indignation from the international community, including its Asian neighbors,” he mentioned.
“We seriously urge the Japanese side to look history in the eye, make a clean break with militarism, allow the young generation in Japan to know the true history,” he mentioned, including that Japan ought to correctly deal with historic points in a accountable perspective and keep away from additional shedding the belief of its Asian neighbors and the worldwide neighborhood.
Source: CGTN