On The Source And Essence Of The Issue Of History Textbooks In Japan

Nowadays, the Japanese history textbook problem has been of a great concern. The issue frequently causes argument in Japan as well as in the international societies. In the 1950s, the Japanese right-wingers launched an offensive to distort the history textbook for the first time; hence it caused the history textbook problem being kept in "frozen winter ages" for 20 years, until after the case of "the Shanben judgment", there has been an improvement. In the 1980s, the Japanese administrative party—Liberal Democratic Party launched countercharge on the textbook problem again, which caused another tide of conflict on the textbook problem. The textbook problem haven't got any "improvement" until the middle of 90's . Starting from the summer of 1996, the right-wingers of Japanese conservative forces , revolving around the coming new century's history textbook, started another round of conflict about the textbook problem.On April 3rd, 2001, the Education-Science Department of Japan granted the publication of which edited by Japanese right-wingers, caused a severe controversy in Asia. In the textbook — published by the Fusang Publisher in the year of 2002 and 2005,there has been serious distortion on many aspects , named a few— the origin of Japan as a nation, the violent and inhuman behaviors of Japanese invaders in China and the property problem of Japanese launching the invading war against China, all of these expose the purpose and the substance of Japanese right-wingers, they publicize an idea of imperial country, observe history revisionism, instigated modifying constitution and carried out new nationalism.The coming out of the right-wingers' textbook is not only subjected to the influence of Japanese domestic nationalism deeply, but also subjected to the influence of unsteady factors in Sino-Japan relations. They are the results of the surging current of thoughts of the new nationalism and its domestic political tendency conforming to the right deviation seriously, and moreover it is the result of the mainstream ideology of Japanese Society turns to be conservative, as well as the result of its economic depression . The Japanese government censored and approved the right-wingers' so-called , which is sure to mislead the Japanese young generations seriously, and influence the political...