When Japanese publishers revised textbook depictions of World War II at the government’s behest this spring, China was quick to cry foul. And with good reason: The new high-school history books toned down or ignored atrocities like the Nanjing Massacre and Japanese soldiers’ use of Chinese and Korean “comfort women” as sex slaves.
One Xinhua editorial bluntly condemned Tokyo’s revisionism. “Maybe the Abe administration could start to show its sincerity in ‘deep remorse’ by stopping playing up school textbook [sic] as a tool to stay in power, and passing on correct historical perceptions, instead of lies, to the young generation,” the state-run news agency wrote. But Beijing can’t claim the moral high ground on this issue. It is guilty of the same offense.
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