The Ehime Prefectural Board of Education decided Wednesday to adopt a controversial history textbook, penned by a group of nationalist authors, for use by public schools for the disabled.
Ehime is the second prefecture in which the textbook, compiled by the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform, will be used for students at public schools.
On Tuesday, the Tokyo metropolitan board of education adopted the text -- a target of protest from China and South Korea -- for three public schools for the disabled.
The six-member Ehime board reached a unanimous decision Wednesday morning to adopt the textbook, published by Fuso Publishing Inc., which critics say glosses over Japan's wartime atrocities in Asia.