History textbooks in East Asia

Children Textbooks  Kichijoji Library Flickr sekihan Logo A child looks at the various books offered in the Kichijoji Library, Japan.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe formed a panel to rewrite national textbooks that reference the country's wartime past. Daniel Sneider, associate director for research at Shorenstein APARC, says those actions are a “backdoor way of limiting references to Japanese aggression” in an Economist article analyzing the history debates.