About 40 people, including war victims, from several parts of Asia will speak against a recently approved Japanese history textbook at a two-day meeting in Tokyo starting Sunday.
The "International Asian Solidarity Conference on Textbook Issues in Japan — Prohibit Use of Distorted History Textbook" is aimed at expressing the opinions of Asian people in an attempt to stop the adoption of the controversial textbook by local education boards for classroom use, organizers said.
Participants are expected to come from South and North Korea, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Taiwan. They will include two South Korean women and a Filipino woman who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army and a Malaysian survivor of a wartime massacre.