Okinawans protest govt's partial concession on history texts

NAHA, Japan - Peace activists and schoolteachers rally in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Dec. 27 in protest against the education ministry's decision to reject direct references in school history textbooks that the Japanese military ''forced'' civilians in Okinawa to commit mass during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. The rally was held a day after Education Minister Kisaburo Tokai approved references to the military's ''involvement'' in the mass suicides but rejected, in line with recommendation by official textbook screeners, that the military had ''forced'' the suicides, citing the lack of historical evidence.

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