Japan orders changes to school text books

Anonymous Patron writes ABC News Online Reports Japan’s education ministry has again been criticised for rewriting history.

In its latest screening of junior high school text books, the ministry has ordered publishers not to state that weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq.

The ministry has also ordered that the word ‘unilaterally’ be removed from a paragraph which said the United States and it allies had unilaterally attacked Iraq and overthrown the government of Saddam Hussein.

Another entry has been banned which said that Japanese troops had been deployed to the Iraq battlefield.

The ministry ordered that the text read instead that they had been deployed to a non-combat area in Iraq.”