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Originally Posted by FlameOn
As for the Senkaku Islands, these islands were originally Chinese territory pre-war with Japan, however they weren't returned following the WW2 and the Chinese have been raising a stink about it for years.
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This is absolutely wrong.
Here is a PDF of a run down of the dispute which started in 1970. Needless to say it is far more nuanced than saying Japan didn't return it after the war. This is a territorial dispute that goes back 100's of years.
This PDF gives China's position and Japan's position as well as strengths and weaknesses of each.
A list of Japan's apologies.
As for Japanese text books. No the do not all whitewash the past. Yes there are some that do but that is comparable to textbooks in NA that teach creationism as science. They are pushed by a small group of nationalists that no one likes. These textbooks face a lot of scrutiny IN Japan when there are changes made.
In June 2007, the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly officially asked the Ministry of Education of Japan to retract its instruction to downplay the military's role in mass suicide in Okinawa in 1945.[21] More than 100,000 people in Okinawa rallied against the text book changes at the end of September.