SEOUL, March 28 (Xinhua) — South Korea on Tuesday expressed remorse over Japan’s history-distorting textbooks because it hinders the precise notion of historical past in Japan’s future generations.
The South Korean international ministry stated in a press release that the federal government expresses deep remorse over the Japanese authorities’s approval of main college textbooks following the unreasonable claims, which Japan has made for the previous many years.
The ministry famous that it strongly protests, particularly, in opposition to Tokyo’s approval of textbooks containing the unfair claims to Dokdo, referred to as Takeshima in Japan, which the ministry stated is the nation’s distinctive territory traditionally, geographically and in line with worldwide legislation.
Dokdo is a few rocky islets mendacity midway between South Korea and Japan, which had been forcibly integrated into the Imperial Japan throughout its 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
South Korea restored its sovereignty over the islets after the peninsula’s liberation from the colonization. Seoul has since maintained a small police detachment there.
The South Korean ministry additionally expressed sturdy remorse over the Japanese textbooks, which modified the expression and outline associated to Japan’s wartime pressured mobilization of South Korean staff in a bid to dilute the character of its coercion.
It added that the Japanese authorities ought to present extra accountable conduct in educating its future generations whereas squarely dealing with historical past.