YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) The Yokohama board of education on Tuesday adopted a disputed history textbook with a nationalist bent for use in many of the city’s public junior high schools, municipal officials said.
The textbook was mainly authored by a group of nationalistic scholars called the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform, popularly known as Tsukurukai.
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