2024-03-26 06:12:38
“Our government is also responsible.”
A history-related civic group visited the Japanese Embassy in Korea on the 25th and requested revisions to the middle school social studies textbook that Japan will use starting next year, saying that the contents, including the forced mobilization of comfort women, were distorted.
The Asian Peace and History Education Alliance held an ’emergency press conference on the results of Japanese middle school textbook inspection’ in front of the Japanese Embassy in Korea at 1pm on the 25th.
Lee Shin-cheol, standing co-steering committee chairman of the Asian Peace and History Education Alliance, said, “The Japanese government is denying the colonial apology and compensation of previous governments, denying the issue of comfort women for the Japanese military, and even minimizing and distorting the damage caused by forced mobilization,” and added, “It is not possible to pass such textbooks through inspection.” “It can be said that responsibility clearly lies with the Japanese government,” he criticized.
He also said, “The Japanese government’s distortion of history was possible because the Korean government and the Japanese government reached an agreement that the Korean government would compensate on behalf of the victims of forced mobilization and the victims of comfort women for the Japanese military,” adding, “The Japanese government’s distortion of history was possible because of the agreement that the Korean government would provide compensation on behalf of the victims of forced mobilization and the Japanese military’s comfort women.” He argued that the government is also responsible.
They also said in a statement, “Recently, the Japanese government has passed all responsibility for colonial damage compensation and compensation to the Korean government and is expressing its position in many places that all past history has been settled. “They are trying to completely escape from war and colonial crimes,” he said. “It is a very serious situation that the Japanese government’s intentions are being reflected in textbooks.”
He continued, “The Korean government showed its strong will to improve Korea-Japan relations through proactive measures and said that Japan would fill half of the remaining cup. However, the Japanese government is filling half of that cup with distortion of history and shifting responsibility,” he said. “We urge the Japanese government to reject textbooks that distort history and glorify war and colonial rule, and to immediately correct the distortion of history and incorrect perception of history.” “I urge you,” he said.
After the meeting, they submitted a ‘2023 Approval Application for Japanese Middle School Social Studies Textbook’s Opinion on Korea-related Technology’ to the embassy.
The opinion includes: ▲ corrective measures for techniques containing excessive interpretations of the Korea-Japan Claims Agreement ▲ the need for understandable descriptions of illegal forced mobilization ▲ requests for the deletion of descriptions that disparage the historical nature of the Japanese military comfort women issue and lack of basis ▲ requests for modification of the description of Dokdo sovereignty claims, etc. It contains the contents.
For example, with regard to the Korea-Japan Claims Agreement, “Korea maintains the position that the issue of forced mobilization and Japanese military comfort women was a crime against humanity caused by the Japanese government’s illegal colonial rule and was not subject to the Korea-Japan Claims Agreement. Nevertheless, there is a revised opinion, such as, “It only describes Japan’s position, so it needs to be revised or Korea’s position needs to be supplemented.”
Previously, Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) held a textbook evaluation committee meeting on the 22nd and confirmed the evaluation results of 18 revised and supplemented social studies textbooks that will be used in middle schools starting next year.
All 18 types of social studies textbooks that passed the test included Japan’s claim to Dokdo. Dokdo was described as “Japan’s inherent territory” or as “Korea’s illegal occupation.”
In eight types of history textbooks, the expression ‘forced conscription’ was omitted or deleted when describing the forced mobilization of Koreans in the 1940s. Also, in the second version of history, the expression ‘war comfort women’ was deleted or the government’s position was included denying any connection with the military during the Japanese colonial period.
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