The Tokyo Metropolitan board of education adopted two contentious social studies textbooks Thursday that critics say distort history and gloss over Japan's wartime atrocities.
The capital is the second city this year, after Otawara, Tochigi Prefecture, to choose junior high textbooks -- one for history and one for civics -- compiled by members of the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform and published by Fuso Publishing Inc.
Otawara's board of education issued its approval July 13.