In September 1947, the MOE announced that it would introduce a textbook screening system in 1948. This order also claimed the halt of the publication of state-authored textbooks. In 1950, the MOE announced that it would cease writing textbooks, though it tried to reintroduce its own textbooks in 1952. Then, the MOE decided to stop publishing state-authored textbooks. In 1952, new non-governmental history textbooks published by seven different presses started to enter Japanese middle schools. The attitudes of these books toward Japanese wartime crimes are very diversed (See the Figure 5). Most textbooks demonstrate their ablility to make wartime content as short as posshible. For example, the one published by Nippon Shoseki only has three pages for the history of the Japanese modern wartimes. Considering
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Sometimes it would be good to examine a frame by looking at the structure. The subtitles of the wartime chapter in the book are "Japan and Manchou", "Wave of the Crisis", "Liberty and Violence", "Dictatorship of Army Headquarters", "the War against China" and "the Pacific War". The clue behind these subtitles is the history of Japanese militarist. In the chapter of "Japan and Moanchou", the book introduces the militarists and their efforts to fight China. The chapter of "Wave of the Crisis" tells the story of the developing communist movements during the first three decades and the efforts made by militarists to suppress these movements. Then, "Liberty and Violence" demontrates the story that Japanese militarists waged attacks toward liberal forces in Japan and occupied Manchou without any agreements from the government. The following chapters, "Dictatorship of Army Headquarters", "the War against China" and "the Pacific War", describe the major events during the war and claim that all the decisions about the war were made by those militarists without any support from either government or
Sometimes it would be good to examine a frame by looking at the structure. The subtitles of the wartime chapter in the book are "Japan and Manchou", "Wave of the Crisis", "Liberty and Violence", "Dictatorship of Army Headquarters", "the War against China" and "the Pacific War". The clue behind these subtitles is the history of Japanese militarist. In the chapter of "Japan and Moanchou", the book introduces the militarists and their efforts to fight China. The chapter of "Wave of the Crisis" tells the story of the developing communist movements during the first three decades and the efforts made by militarists to suppress these movements. Then, "Liberty and Violence" demontrates the story that Japanese militarists waged attacks toward liberal forces in Japan and occupied Manchou without any agreements from the government. The following chapters, "Dictatorship of Army Headquarters", "the War against China" and "the Pacific War", describe the major events during the war and claim that all the decisions about the war were made by those militarists without any support from either government or