S. Korea urges Japan to revise textbooks by Aug.

S. Korea urges Japan to revise textbooks by Aug.

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo responds to a question in an interview with Kyodo News at the ministry in Seoul on May 23. He urged Tokyo to revise by August some history textbooks, which critics say justify Japan's 1910-1945 colonization of Korea and gloss over wartime atrocities by Japanese troops.

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