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flag New Japanese textbooks downplay wartime aggression, omitting the Nanjing Massacre and reframing forced labor.

flag Newly approved history textbooks for Japan's 2027 academic year continue a decades-long trend of downplaying wartime aggression. flag Revisions include omitting the Nanjing Massacre and reframing forced labor as "mobilization." flag Only one textbook among nine explicitly labels the war as aggression, reflecting a dominant revisionist narrative that critics say risks normalizing militarism and erasing historical accountability.

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