Japan Seeks to Promote ‘Correct’ View of Wartime Past
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Japan is stepping up a campaign to promote a “correct understanding” of its wartime past, in a move that may anger China and South Korea ahead of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in August.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told parliament on Thursday he was “stunned” at the content of a U.S. history textbook. The book states Japan forcibly recruited as many as 200,000 women and girls to serve in military brothels across Asia before and during the war and massacred many of them to hide the truth.