Japan's textbook, Controversial in Asia Options

[gelionie]

Now it's more than just the Japan history textbooks.
This thing is getting really tense now. Neither sides are agreeing to apologize.

I'm kind of worried that it will get really serious.

[azn_r4pf4n]

mmhmmm.. the japanese already sent troops to guard the japanese embasy in china so it doesn't get hit by rocks like it did last time.

[innovation]

the chinese government is against the idea of japan having a permanent seat on the UNSC-- because they refuse, once again, to measure up to their war crimes, supposedly.

[azn_r4pf4n]

Protests are currently getting worser... *sighs*

+ source ; http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=100...10Mw&refer=asia

Anti-Japan Protesters March in Shanghai; U.S. Issues Warning
April 16 (Bloomberg) -- About 1,000 anti-Japan protesters gathered on Shanghai's riverfront Bund area for a march down one of the city's downtown streets.

At least 100 police were present but didn't intervene to stop the gathering crowd. The protesters were yelling anti- Japanese slogans and carrying banners denouncing Japan.

Japan and the U.S. yesterday warned their citizens in China to avoid public areas and steer clear of protests planned for a second weekend. The U.S. on embassy Web site in Beijing said the protests may spill to demonstrations against all foreigners in the country.

China-Japan relations have worsened the past month amid renewed disputes over possible oil-rich areas of the East China Sea, China's claims that new Japanese textbooks gloss over wartime atrocities and Japan's recent decision to join the U.S. in declaring Taiwan, which China claims as a province, a ``security concern.''

Shanghai television last night said there have been no demonstrations approved by the city. Chinese authorities in Beijing yesterday warned activists that unapproved protests were illegal, the South China Morning Post reported today.

The Chinese government earlier this week said last weekend's protests, in which rocks, bottles and eggs were thrown at Japanese diplomatic missions, shops and restaurants, were ``spontaneous.'' Public protests normally don't occur in China without at least tacit government approval.

Avoiding Confrontation

Japan's consulate in Shanghai yesterday sent a note to Japanese nationals telling them to be careful about their behavior and to avoid ``provocative'' remarks and actions, consulate spokesman Tomohiko Murakami said yesterday.

Chinese Web sites are calling for protests in the cities of Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenyang, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Tianjin and Wuhan today and tomorrow, after Japan's government said this week it would allow energy drilling in an ocean area claimed by both countries. China called the decision ``a serious provocation.''

The anti-Japan rallies are the biggest street protests in China since the U.S.-led NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade six years ago.

Chinese nationals have also protested Japan's bid to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.

This weekend's protests will coincide with the arrival of Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura in Beijing tomorrow to discuss ties between the countries.

China and Japan are disputing each other's claims over areas of the East China Sea as competition for new energy sources mounts between Asia's two biggest economies.

Japan relies on overseas supplies for 99.7 percent of its oil. In China, demand for oil, gas and other natural resources has soared as the economy tripled in a decade to $1.6 trillion.

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a pic i found on msnbc

[F_L_I_P]

Aww man, that's gonna suck if they start attacking.
They'll totally own us with their Gundams and thingamabobs.

- Solipsist

Hahaha thats funny

-Phil-

[ikayto]

The Japanese during WWII did some pretty fed up shiz to East Asia. They raped thousands of women in the "rape of nanking" a city near china. They basically slaughtered the people in Manchuria North West of Korea, and did the same to the Koreans.

They shouldn't try to sugar coat what they did or else history would repeat itself. Japanese kids dont even know that it happened and that's not right. That's like Germany saying Hitler didn't kill many people in the death camps; can't sugar coat history.

[Azn Kid from NY]

dayum,...i've known about this textbook issue before....its wayy old news...Japans always been doing it for years and pissing off Korea and China....and finally its escalated to this point.....

Japan should just really change those textbooks...

[*kryogenix*]

(I'm Chinese)

We don't have any control over what the Japanese history textbooks say, but distorting historical facts is a BIG NO.

You can't imagine how many people were killed by the Japanese during when Japan invaded China... yet it's so sad that they turn it into something good.

I'm not trying to be racist, but it's just the same with Jews against Germans.

Are you trying to say China's censorship is any better?

There is a great deal of hypocrisy on China's part. Japan's actions were terrible (in fact, my grandmother has experienced Japanese Soldiers' cruelty first hand when they killed her parents), but to say China (or north korea for that matter) is any better, is a flat out lie.

[PinoyOtaku]

wishes to south korea..im south korea..i dont give a crap about china..but i hate nk and japan..

I guess you should give a crap soon, comrade...looking at what's taking place on the other side of the Yellow/West Sea esp. economic-wise.

There is a great deal of hypocrisy on China's part. Japan's actions were terrible (in fact, my grandmother has experienced Japanese Soldiers' cruelty first hand when they killed her parents), but to say China (or north korea for that matter) is any better, is a flat out lie.

Again I'm agreeing with ya: Great Cultural Revolution smell familiar to anyone? Chinese, Japanese, heck I was reading a Philippine history book that seemed to sugarcoat blotches of our history! Hiding away the injustices from the past won't benefit us in the future...