Below are excerpts and links to articles on the textbook cover-up.
“More than 110,000 people on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa demonstrated Saturday against the central government’s order to modify school textbooks which say the country’s army forced civilians to commit mass suicide at the end of World War II…” Â Â Â Â Â Â —INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE article
“Governor will join in textbook protest” Â Â Â Â Â Â —WEEKLY JAPAN UPDATE article
“Sumie Oshiro was 25 when she and her friends tried to kill themselves to avoid capture by U.S. soldiers at the start of the bloody Battle of Okinawa...”Four of us tried to commit suicide with one hand grenade, but it did not go off”…” Â Â Â Â Â Â —REUTERS article
“All Okinawa assemblies protest gov’t view on wartime mass suicides” Â Â Â Â Â Â —YAHOO! ASIA NEWS article
“Okinawans press protest against textbook changes” Â Â Â Â Â Â —WEEKLY JAPAN UPDATE article
“Nobuaki Kinjo, 80, is one of the survivors… he was 16 years old living on
“Tokyo admits Okinawans were under suicide order ” Â Â Â Â Â Â —STARS and STRIPES article
A statue of an Okinawan mother and child inside a walled-off monument to civilians who were convinced to commit suicide rather than surrender to American invasion troops. The monument was vandalized by right-wing Japanese nationalists in 1987 because they said it embarrassed the emperor. Photo: David Allen / S&S