April 11, 2013
Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has expressed his intention to revise the guidelines requiring history textbooks to be sensitive to neighboring Asian countries’ feelings about Japanese textbook accounts of Japan’s modern history.
He unveiled this view on April 10 at a House of Representatives Budget Committee meeting in reply to questions made by lawmakers of the ruling Liberal Democratic and the opposition Japan Restoration parties.
Abe also proposed amending the textbook screening standards in order to have school textbooks properly reflect patriotism, which is emphasized in the Fundamental Law of Education revised in 2006 by the first Abe administration.
The LDP and JRP lawmakers denied the existence of Japanese military sex slavery and the occurrence of the Nanjing Massacre in their questions calling for the textbook screening standards to be revised.
LDP representative Nishikawa Kyoko presented her view that “prostitutes” who followed the Japanese army are falsely recognized as “sex slaves” forcibly taken by the military. She also described the comfort women issue as an “issue that could occur in any war and with any military.”
JRP parliamentarian Nakayama Nariaki said, “Neither the use of sex slaves nor a slaughter in Nanjing happened during the war.”
He unveiled this view on April 10 at a House of Representatives Budget Committee meeting in reply to questions made by lawmakers of the ruling Liberal Democratic and the opposition Japan Restoration parties.
Abe also proposed amending the textbook screening standards in order to have school textbooks properly reflect patriotism, which is emphasized in the Fundamental Law of Education revised in 2006 by the first Abe administration.
The LDP and JRP lawmakers denied the existence of Japanese military sex slavery and the occurrence of the Nanjing Massacre in their questions calling for the textbook screening standards to be revised.
LDP representative Nishikawa Kyoko presented her view that “prostitutes” who followed the Japanese army are falsely recognized as “sex slaves” forcibly taken by the military. She also described the comfort women issue as an “issue that could occur in any war and with any military.”
JRP parliamentarian Nakayama Nariaki said, “Neither the use of sex slaves nor a slaughter in Nanjing happened during the war.”
