The authors and publisher of a controversial junior high school history textbook being screened by the government are ready to comply with all of the revision requests made by an education ministry panel, sources close to the group said Monday.
Members of the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform and publisher Fuso Publishing Inc. have already revised 137 entries in the draft in accordance with requests by the panel of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the sources said.
The textbook recently provoked a storm of condemnation from South Korea and China, which said the text distorts history and justifies Japan's wartime aggression against Asian countries.