OSAKA — "Imperial Japan pillaged our country and instituted a cruel, repressive colonial regime. This went beyond acquiring food, resources and labor, and developed into a policy of obliterating the Korean people from the face of the Earth."
This paragraph appears in a summation of Korea's history from 1900 to 1945 in a history textbook used by an Osaka high school.
But this is no ordinary Japanese high school. The textbook is used in history classes at Hakuto Gakuin, a school in Osaka's Sumiyoshi Ward connected to the pro-Seoul Korean Residents Union (Mindan).