The war of the handbooks (April 2005) is an expression to name tensions between the China, the South Korea, and the Japan which began with the publication with the Japan from a School handbook minimizing the atrocities and massacres made by the Japanese Armée in China lasting the Sino-Japanese Guerre (1937-1945) (like the Massacre with Nankin”, where 300  000 Chinese civilians would have been killed in six weeks). The Chinese population was indignant that such a handbook can be published and shows Japan of Révisionnisme. Japan however refuses to modify the aforementioned handbook estimating that, being published by a privately held company, it falls within the competence of the prefectures to approve or not the handbook (the rate of adoption of this handbook in 2001 is 0,039%). Japan also estimates to have, with many recoveries, emitted its “deep remorses” over this period of the History. It in addition reproaches China for letting the currents anti-Japanese be expressed kind.

These tensions were in addition accentuated with the advertisement of the potential entry of Japan as a permanent member of the Safety advice of the United Nations what raised a series of demonstrations anti-Japanese women. China does not accept indeed only one country denying the war crimes which it made can occupy such a function. Japan could become the second Asian country with becoming permanent member, after China.

See too

• War crimes Japanese
• Expansionism of Japan Showa
• History of China
• History of Korea
• History of Japan
• Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
• selective Amnesia of war
• Revisionism in Japan
• Movements anti-Japanese in China 2005

External bonds

• '' Guerre of the handbooks between China and Japan '' of Radio-Canada.
• '' Of the Japanese school handbooks scandalizes the area '' Monde.fr
• Japan: the offensive of the deniers of the History
• off History Textbooks Used in Japan' S Middle Schools"