Protest rally held over Japanese textbooks

Protest rally held over Japanese textbooks

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean students sit near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on June 12 to protest Japan's approving textbooks that they say justify its 1910-1945 colonial rule of Korea and wartime atrocities committed by Japanese troops.

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