Japan and its neighbors exchanged sharp words Tuesday after Tokyo made public school textbooks hew closer to its stance on history and toughened an annual foreign-policy report. As the WSJ's Yuka ...

After a summer filled with protests by historians, human-rights groups, and high-level officials from neighboring countries, educators in Japan appear to have shunned controversial history textbooks ...

South Korea filed a complaint against Japan on Tuesday for approving history textbooks that officials say “distort historical facts” about sexual slavery and forced labor imposed on Koreans during ...

Beijing, China, June 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A Japanese civil group said in an exclusive interview with the Global Times on Tuesday that Japanese junior high school history textbooks contain ...

Eighty years ago, the Japanese Emperor read the Imperial Rescript of the Termination of the War, announcing Japan's unconditional surrender to the allied forces in the World Anti-Fascist War. Yet 80 ...

TOKYO — Local school districts across Japan voted with their order books Wednesday when they rejected by an overwhelming majority the use of a controversial middle school textbook that has inflamed ...

The Rev. Shigeaki Kinjo, 78 years old and in failing health, no longer wanted to talk about that fateful day 62 years ago toward the end of World War II when he beat to death his mother, younger ...

Fueling an international dispute over wartime history, Japan’s government approved a new public school textbook Tuesday that China and South Korea immediately denounced as “poison” for whitewashing ...