Koreans protest Japanese textbooks

Koreans protest Japanese textbooks

SEOUL, South Korea - Two young women put their signatures in protest over Japanese history textbooks during a boycott campaign against Japanese goods organized by civil groups in Seoul on May 8. The South Koran government formally demanded Japan make 35 revisions to eight history textbooks it says glorify Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula and whitewash wartime atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army.

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