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Know your Enemy: Japan’s most controversial textbook available online
posted Saturday, 2 July 2005
For interested Readers, the full text from the Japanese society for History Textbook Reform's (新しい歴史教科書をつくる会) most controversial textbook is now available for download in Chinese and Korea.
Chinese
http://www.tsukurukai.com/05_rekisi_text/rekishi_Chinese/kantaiji.pdf
http://www.tsukurukai.com/05_rekisi_text/rekishi_Chinese/hantaiji.pdf
Korean
http://www.tsukurukai.com/05_rekisi_text/rekishi_Korean/Korean.pdf
The Tsukurukai text, arguably Japan’s most controversial textbook, is widely condemned in Japan and is the source of the majority of Sino-Japanese and Korean-Japanese educational tensions at the present time. It has been broadly criticized from all sides for downplaying Japan’s invasion and occupation of Asia and for portraying Japan in a more favourable light than many, including most Japanese, feel is justifiable.
To date, only a handful of schools in Japan use Tsukurukai's text and it has been widely denounced by Japan’s liberal teachers union with the majority of schools banishing it from the curriculum on the grounds that it is unfit for use. Some sources put adoption of this book below 0.04%.
Despite being available free of charge to private schools, some editions of the text reached print runs of less than 700 books, significantly lower than the number of complaints recieved about it and lower than the number of books printed in trial runs of less controversial texts.
Please be advised that the Angry Chinese Blogger does not endorses this book, and strongly condemns the false justification of military aggression and the purposeful distortion of history, but would encourage people to read the text themselves before reaching opinions on its contents.
Comments on this entry will remain closed due to the heated nature of the issue.
Tsukurukai's text is not representative of Japanese opinion or textbooks and does not represent the opinions of this website or its creators. Please direct all complaints on the book’s contents directly to The Japanese society for History Textbook Reform or their publisher, and all comments to the appropriate forums.