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More than 3,000 elementary school students and parents marched in Seoul, south Korea, April 10 to protest a new set of history textbooks approved by the Japanese government. The marchers charged that the publications whitewash Tokyo's subjugation of Korea and other nations of Asia in the first half of the 20th century by describing it as a crusade for national independence of the affected countries. The governments of China and north Korea have also protested the attempt to gloss over Tokyo's brutalities.
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