Machimura blasts China's textbooks as 'extreme'

[dArKeR]

Chinese textbooks are "extreme" in their interpretation of history, Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said Sunday, a day after China's president demanded Tokyo do more to improve relations damaged by new Japanese textbooks that allegedly whitewash wartime atrocities.
Machimura meanwhile hailed the Saturday meeting between Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Chinese President Hu Jintao in Jakarta, saying it has paved the way to start repairing battered ties that have led to anti-Japan protests across China.

"From the perspective of a Japanese person, Chinese textbooks appear to teach that everything the Chinese government has done has been correct," Machimura said on a TV Asahi talk show. "There is a tendency toward this in any country, but the Chinese textbooks are extreme in they way they uniformly convey the 'our country is correct' perspective."

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050425a2.htm

What do print about the KMT's invasion and slaughter of Formosa (Taiwan)?

[David__77]

1. The Japanese militarists have no right to complain.

They must apologize formally for the crimes of Japan against the people of Asia and make amends through their actions. China is correct to hold Japan to this standard--they must not allow Japan to sit among the permanent security council members since their are enough unrepentant imperialists sitting there already.