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The Japanese Textbook Controversy

The Japanese Textbook Controversy. By Rob Hamilton Anthony DiLullo James Kiernan. Who’s Involved?. Where the screening started.

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The Japanese Textbook Controversy

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  1. The Japanese Textbook Controversy By Rob Hamilton Anthony DiLullo James Kiernan

  2. Who’s Involved?

  3. Where the screening started. • The current textbook authorization system began in 1947 under the direction of the U.S.-led Supreme Commander, Allied Powers (SCAP) authority during Japan's post-World War II occupation. • SCAP ordered the provisional government of Japan to end the system of government-designated textbooks and allow scholars in the private sector to write textbooks. • Local educators would then choose which textbooks to use at their schools. Descriptions that promoted militarism and ultranationalizm. • The New School Education Law states that while the government sets a curriculum guideline, it is not meant to establish a fixed, uniform line for all educators to observe, like in the old militarist days, but rather to help educators to creatively adapt the curriculum to the new demands of children and society in general.

  4. The Japanese presentation of the war to its children runs something like this: “One day, for no reason we ever understood, the Americans started dropping atomic bombs on us. "

  5. Works Cited • Ducke, Isa. Civil Society and the Internet in Japan (Routledge Contemporary Japan). New York: Routledge, 2007. • Minear, Richard. "Support Statements of Nominators and Supporters," Nomination of Prof. IenagaSaburo for Nobel Peace Prize. • Kanji, Nishio. "Restoring Common Sense to the Teaching of History." Japan Echo (2001): 33. • Saaler, Sven. Politics, Memory and Public Opinion: The History Textbook Controversy and Japanese Society. Munich: Iudicium, 2005. • Schneider, Claudia. "IN THIS ISSUE: THE POLITICS OF HISTORY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: The Japanese History Textbook Controversy in East Asian Perspective." Ed. Martin O. Heisler. May & june 2008. Research Library. Lexisnexis. Pace, New York. 05 Mar. 2009 <http://www.lexisnexis.com.rlib.pace.edu/us/lnacademic/results/listview/listview.do?risb=21_T5990283917&startDocNo=1&sort=null&format=GNBLIST&BCT=G1>. • Speech. Japanese Education and Society in Crisis. Pick Lounge, Ground Floor, University of Chicago, Chicago. May & june 2007. • Won-deog, Lee. "A Normal State Without Remorse: The Textbook Controversy and Korea-Japan Relations." EAST ASIAN REVIEW 13 (2001): 21-30.

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