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S.Koreans rally against Japanese history textbook
(Agenices)
Updated: 2005-04-05 23:11
A South Korean boy holds an anti-Japanese
banner at a rally in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul April 5, 2005.
Rallies were held on Tuesday in protest against new controversial Japanese
history textbooks about Japan's military aggression in Asia and its
1910-1945 colonial rule over the Korean peninsula and Japan's sovereignty
claims over a group of islets that South Korea refers to as Tokto and
Japan, as Takeshima. [Reuters]
South Korean members of civic group shout slogans
during a rally against Japan's sovereignty claims over Dokdo islets, which
South Korea is effectively controlling, in front of Japanese Embassy in
Seoul Tuesday, April 5, 2005. They also claimed some Japanese textbooks
that are undergoing review by the Japanese government justify Japan's
imperialist occupation of neighboring countries, including Korea, during
World War II. [AP]
A controversial textbook, written by
nationalist scholars for junior high schools, is
displayed during a news conference held by civic groups opposed
to the approval of the new version of the textbook in
Tokyo April 5, 2005. Japan's Ministry of Education approved on Tuesday a
revised version of the textbook that critics say whitewashes Japan's
militaristic past, further fraying already tense ties with
China and South Korea. [Reuters] |
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