Following the government's cabinet decision on terms related to the comfort women issue and recruitment during the Pacific War, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) applied for correction of the terms "comfort women" and "forced entrainment" from five textbook companies. And revealed that it was approved.
In April, the government used the term "comfort women" instead of "comfort women" because it could be misleading over the comfort women issue, and "compulsory recruitment" and "compulsory recruitment" over "recruitment" during the Pacific War. The Cabinet has decided that it is appropriate to use "recruitment" instead of "".
In response to this, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology held an unusual briefing session for companies that publish social studies textbooks regarding application for correction of descriptions, and indicated the schedule for applying by the end of June as an example.
After that, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology announced on the 8th that five textbook companies have applied for correction of the deletion and change of the terms "comfort women" and "forced entrainment" for a total of 29 books. ..
Among them, in the history of junior high school, the description of "so-called comfort women" was deleted, and in the history of Japanese high school, "forced entrainment" was changed to "arrangement based on government decisions". ..
Regarding the description in the textbook, the revision of the certification standard in 2014 includes taking up the unified view of the government in history and citizens, if any.