Posts Tagged ‘Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform’

  1. Left out

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    March 14, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    I’m developing a new obsession, fuelled this week by a number of chance media encounters.  Today I read an article by Mariko Oi reflecting on her own extremely selective education in history as a teenager in Japan – just nineteen pages of a textbook were devoted to events which took place between 1931 and 1945. Oi then outlined the ‘curriculum battles’ taking place in Japan right keep reading



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