Four South Korean ruling and opposition lawmakers applied to the Tokyo District Court on Thursday for an injunction to halt the sale of a controversial history textbook being published by Fuso Publishing Co.
The lawmakers, including Ham Seung Hui of the ruling Millennium Democratic Party, sought the injunction over a book that critics say glorifies Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula and whitewashes atrocities that the Imperial Japanese Army committed before and during World War II.
The textbook was the most controversial of eight that the government approved for use in junior high schools in Japan from next April. It was compiled by nationalist academics of the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform.