Asia-Pacific - AP

Sunday November 28, 4:19 PM

Reports: Education minister praises textbooks that shy away from Japan's wartime atrocities

Japan's education minister has praised recent history textbooks that reduce references to the country's past atrocities, including the military's use of sex slaves, news reports said Sunday.

Education Minister Nariaki Nakayama said every country should reflect on its past wrongdoings, but that Japan's education system must rid itself of "self-condemning" perceptions that everything the country did was bad, according to the Tokyo Shimbun daily.

Recent school texts that only fleetingly mention Japan's past transgressions were better than old versions, Nakayama said in a speech in southern Oita prefecture (state) Saturday.

"There was a time when they were filled with extremely self-deprecating material, as though Japan had done nothing but bad things," Nakayama was quoted as saying. "I'm glad to see that, at last, the use of terms like 'comfort women' and 'forced labor' has decreased recently."

"Comfort women" was the euphemism used to describe sex slaves for Japanese troops.

Similar comments attributed to Nakayama were carried by national daily Mainichi Shimbun on Sunday.

Japan's history textbooks are a sensitive issue for Asian countries that suffered Tokyo's aggression. The approval of a middle-school textbook in 2001 written by a group of nationalist scholars damaged the country's relations with South Korea and China, which said it whitewashed Japan's wartime past.

Japan's military seized up to 800,000 people from China, Korea and other Asian countries in the early 1900s, and shipped them to Japan to work in coal mines and ports, often under brutal conditions.

Another 200,000 women from Korea, China, the Philippines, Taiwan and the Netherlands are also estimated to have been forced into sex slavery.

Tokyo has acknowledged its wartime military's offenses, but has refused to compensate victims directly or apologize, saying all government-level compensation was settled by postwar treaties.

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