BEIJING, March 25 (Xinhua) — 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 highschool textbooks for use from 2027. Some textbooks embody descriptions suggesting there was no coercion relating to consolation girls 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.
“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 angle and keep away from additional dropping the belief of its Asian neighbors and the worldwide neighborhood.