Documents several cases of ultraconservatives pushing and the government's use of school textbooks that distort history, manipulate facts, ignore historical research and issues of Comfort Women and Unit 731, and glorify Japanese aggression during East Asia.

Essay on the importance of history textbooks, background on the Japan textbook controversies, the current situation, and lessons for Americans. From the National Clearinghouse for US-Japan Studies at Indiana University.

Documents recent fights on rewriting Japanese history textbooks involving nationalistic revisionists against mainstream historians, by Takashi Yoshida of Columbia University.

Multinational group of scholars attack Japan's new pro-militarist history textbooks.

Article detailing the successful publication of revisionist history textbooks despite several protests.

A content analysis of post-war Japanese high school history textbooks by Tomochika Okamoto of Waseda University, Tokyo.

Describes the tug-of-war between those wanting history textbooks to be used for instilling pride and nationalism versus those advocating an objective and balanced view of the past.

Article in Asiaweek detailing the uproar caused by ultranationalists and conservatives attempting to rewrite Japanese history texts.