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» Examining the Japanese History Textbook Controversies - Essay on the importance of history textbooks, background on the Japan textbook controversies, the current situation, and lessons for Americans. From the National Clearinghouse for US-Japan Studies at Indiana University.
» History Textbooks: For Whom and for What Purpose? - Documents recent fights on rewriting Japanese history textbooks involving nationalistic revisionists against mainstream historians, by Takashi Yoshida of Columbia University.
» Japan: Far Right Rewrites History - Article detailing the successful publication of revisionist history textbooks despite several protests.
» The Distortion and the Revision of History in Postwar Japanese Textbooks, 1945-1998 - Shows objectives, significance, and background of successive postwar attempts to change Japanese history books, by sociologist Tomochika Okamoto.
» The Textbook Controversy - Describes the tug-of-war between those wanting history textbooks to be used for instilling pride and nationalism versus those advocating an objective and balanced view of the past.
» The War At Home - Article in Asiaweek detailing the uproar caused by ultranationalists and conservatives attempting to rewrite Japanese history texts.