A Japanese civic group criticized the Japanese government for changing the term ‘comfort women’ used in Japanese textbooks to ‘comfort women’ according to the will of the Japanese government as political intervention.
In a statement, ‘Fight for Justice’, a civic group that operates an academic site for the Japanese military comfort women, pointed out in a statement that textbook publishers applied to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to change the term ‘comfort women’ to ‘comfort women’ as a result of government pressure.
The group criticized these results, saying, “It is absolutely unacceptable for the government to determine the interpretation and terminology of history and to intervene politically in textbook technology.”
Prior to this, Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology approved on the 8th that five textbook companies would change the expression ‘comfort women in the wartime’ to ‘comfort women’ and ‘forced arrest’ to ‘forced mobilization’ or ‘conscription’.
In April, the Japanese government announced that it was appropriate to use the term ‘comfort women’, arguing that the term ‘comfort women in the wartime’ could be misleading, and that it was not appropriate to use the term ‘forced arrest’ for the labor of Korean workers. have been adopted.
It turns out that textbook companies applied for revisions to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology after the Japanese government’s position came out.
YTN Kyungah Lee (kalee@ytn.co.kr)
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