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(1)Japan again OKs nationalist text

TOKYO, Japan - An education ministry panel on screening junior high school textbooks is in plenary session in Tokyo on April 5. The ministry approved a new edition of a controversial junior high school history textbook that drew strong protests from China and South Korea. Some of the eight history textbooks approved in the latest round of ministry screenings mentioned wartime sex slaves in simplified terms, but euphemism ''comfort women'' disappeared from all the texts.

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Choi expresses disappointment over textbooks

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong (L) shakes hands with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Yutaka Kawashima in Tokyo on July 10. During their meeting, Choi formally conveyed South Korea's disappointment over Japan's decision the previous day to reject most of the revisions requested by Seoul to controversial junior high school history textbooks. Critics say the eight textbooks approved recently by Japan's education ministry distort history and gloss over Japan's wartime atrocities.

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S. Koreans protest Japan's reply on textbooks

SEOUL, S. Korea - A group of South Korean citizens protest in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on July 9 over Japan's reply to South Korean demands for revision of history textbooks. Japanese Ambassador Terusuke Terada earlier issued his government's reply to South Korea's demands, made in May, that 35 passages in eight history textbooks be revised. Terada told South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo two passages in two of the textbooks will be revised.

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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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S. Korea demands 35 revisions to Japanese textbooks

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo (R) hands over documents to Japanese Ambassador Terusuke Terada at his ministry in Seoul on May 8, demanding Japan make 35 revisions to eight controversial history textbooks. South Korea feels the textbooks justify Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula and whitewash wartime atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army.

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(1)Japan again OKs nationalist text

TOKYO, Japan - An education ministry panel on screening junior high school textbooks is in plenary session in Tokyo on April 5. The ministry approved a new edition of a controversial junior high school history textbook that drew strong protests from China and South Korea. Some of the eight history textbooks approved in the latest round of ministry screenings mentioned wartime sex slaves in simplified terms, but euphemism ''comfort women'' disappeared from all the texts. (Kyodo)

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Filipino "comfort women" call for Japan emperor's help in seeking redress

Eight Filipino women, who claimed to have suffered sexual abuse from Japanese soldiers during World War II, hold a rally in front of the Japanese embassy in the capital Manila on Jan. 29, 2016 to appeal for help from visiting Japanese Emperor Akihito. The women, all in their 80s, demand an official apology and compensation from the Japanese government, and inclusion in Japan's historical accounts and textbooks of the wartime sexual slavery issue. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korea demands 35 revisions to Japanese textbooks

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo (R) hands over documents to Japanese Ambassador Terusuke Terada at his ministry in Seoul on May 8, demanding Japan make 35 revisions to eight controversial history textbooks. South Korea feels the textbooks justify Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula and whitewash wartime atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army.