It is a well-known fact that Japan occupied Korea by force of arms in the last century and imposed untold misfortunes and sufferings on the Korean nation.
Recently, the Japanese authorities have additionally screened and approved two kinds of history textbooks for middle schools which deny the crimes related to the sexual slavery for the imperial Japanese army and claim that Japan’s colonial rule led Korea towards its modernization.
This is a persistent bid for distortion of history and its escalation.
After their defeat in the war, the Japanese reactionaries have been hell-bent on falsification of history.
This is well evidenced by reactionary politicians’ “first textbook campaign” against “left-leaning history textbooks” in the wake of the Liberal Democratic Party’s inauguration in 1955, the “second campaign” in the early 1980s against the allegedly biased history and language textbooks, and the “third campaign” in 1997 that described the “Greater East Asia War” as the “one to liberate Asia,” and the Japanese army’s sexual slavery and forced conscription as fabricated.
In the course of this, descriptions of wartime crimes gradually disappeared from textbooks, and the so-called “society for making new history textbooks,” a right-wing reactionary organization, was overtly formed.
In February 2018, Japan published new “study guidelines” to further intensify history education with a view to embellishing its war of aggression and colonization.
As a result of the screening in March 2022, such expressions as war of aggression, forcible drafting of Koreans, and sexual slavery for the imperial Japanese army were all deleted from history, politics, economics and geography textbooks for high schools.
The ultimate goal of the Japanese reactionaries’ bid for distorted textbooks is to brainwash the younger generation into harbouring revanchism for the defeat in the war and the “imperial viewpoint” and emasculate a peaceful trend at home against militarism.
The distortion of history creates growing risks as it coincides with Japan’s bid for militarism that has entered an extremely reckless stage.
History can neither be distorted nor whitewashed.
With such crafty schemes to deny and justify its crime-woven history, Japan can never cover up its blood-stained sinful past.
Kim Yong Gwang
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