The Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education voted Tuesday to use a controversial history textbook at three public schools for disabled children.
It is the first time the book, written by a group of nationalist authors and opposed by China and South Korea on grounds it glosses over Japan's wartime atrocities, has been approved for public schools.
The schools are to begin using it at the start of the next academic year in April.
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