State asks schools to weigh in on disputed book

The state Department of Education wants to know whether a book available to many public schools is appropriate for students after being warned by the Korean Consulate that it contains historical distortions about the end of World War II. The autobiographical book, “So Far from the Bamboo Grove,” was written by Yoko Kawashima Watkins and depicts her life as an 11-year-old Japanese girl fleeing from a city in north Korea to Japan in 1945. During her escape, Watkins, now a Massachusetts resident, talks about bombings by U.S. planes and murders, rapes and other atrocities committed against the Japanese by Koreans.

February 8, 2007 by Uncategorized 0

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