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.

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 ...

The Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform produced one of the textbooks in question because of the “self-deprecating” tone of current Japanese history texts, according to a statement ...

TOKYO - Japanese government on Friday approved new elementary school textbooks claiming the disputed Diaoyu Islands as part of Japan's terr ito ry, arousing strong denunciation from China immediately.

Chanting, “Japan, apologize,” and “Japan, tell the truth,” more than 200 Asian American protesters Tuesday demanded that the Japanese government pull back new history textbooks that they ...

2007-04-01 04:00:00 PDT Tokyo -- In another sign that Japan is pressing ahead in revising its history of World War II, new high school textbooks will no longer acknowledge that the Imperial Army ...

Japan’s government approved a new public school textbook Tuesday, a book that China and South Korea immediately denounced for whitewashing Japan’s World War II atrocities.

Historians and China scholars say an underlying theme in many Chinese textbooks is the country’s victimization at the hands of foreign powers, particularly the Japanese.