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Japanese history textbook controversies involve controversial content in one of the. Japan s achievement is explained not merely in economic terms, but at a more fundamental level, as a product of historical patterns of response to circumstance. Popular japanese history and culture books showing 150 of 119 the kojiki. The history textbooks used in japanese schools have come under.
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