Rafu Shimpo, July 31, 2000, page 3:
A conservative nonprofit "textbook reform group in Japan is campaigning to revise Japanese school history and civics textbooks, which they allege are "unreasonably negative" of Japan's wartime actions.
"Why is only Japan under attack 50 years after the war?" said Akinori Takamori, director of the Japnaese Society of History Textbook Reform...
They allege that Japanese history education has been so distorted by pressures from foreign countries, "childrenof the next generation will never be proud of their own country"...
An earnest supporter and popular comic book author, Yoshinori Kobayashi, plays a major role in attracting young people with his books which glorify the Japanese military battles against American forces..."
[WWII started, these people say, when] the United States goaded Japan, which was exhausted after its war with Russia [I assume the 1938 attack on Manchuria is meant?], into another war by imposing sanctions against Japan for its expansion in Asia...
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