Can history textbooks jointly written by countries with pasts full of conflict serve as catalysts for reconciliation?
This was the question posed at a symposium Friday at the Goethe-Institut Japan in Tokyo, where scholars from Germany, France and Japan discussed the significance and the background of the launch of the first Franco-German high school history textbook.
Believed to be the first attempt of its kind anywhere, the history book has been used since the 2006 school year by some schools in France and Germany.