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Okinawa city rips efforts to alter textbooks

NAHA, Okinawa Pref. (Kyodo) The city assembly of Tomigusuku, Okinawa Prefecture, called Monday on the education ministry to retract its instructions to textbook publishers to modify statements that... Read more . . . ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Mon, May 14 2007

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