S. Korean lawmakers demand revisions to screened textbooks

S. Korean lawmakers demand revisions to screened textbooks

TOKYO, Japan - Park Sang Cheon (C), vice chairman of the (South) Korea-Japan Parliamentarians Union, and another South Korean lawmaker meet with Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Nobutaka Machimura (L) at the ministry in Tokyo on April 12. During the meeting, the South Korean lawmakers demanded that Japan revise several recently screened junior high school history textbooks, which they say distort historical facts about Japan's wartime aggression toward its Asian neighbors.

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