China News Service, March 30. According to Yonhap News Agency, the South Korean government issued a statement on the 29th, expressing deep regret that the Japanese government approved the high school textbooks that downplayed the issue of the victims of the Japanese army's comfort women and distorted the facts of the forced recruitment of Korean laborers during the Japanese colonial rule. And urge the Japanese side to correct its mistakes immediately.
Data map: On August 14, 2019, Korean and Japanese civil groups in Germany held a rally in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on the occasion of the seventh world "comfort women" anniversary.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Peng Dawei
The statement also made a solemn protest against Japan's adoption of a textbook claiming the sovereignty of Dokdo (a disputed island between South Korea and Japan, which Japan calls Takeshima).
The director of the Asia-Pacific Bureau of the South Korean Foreign Ministry summoned Naoki Kumagai, the chief minister of the Japanese embassy in South Korea, to protest the Japanese move.
Japan approved 239 high school textbooks on the 29th, some of which changed the expression "compulsory escort" to "mobilization" or "requisition", and 12 social textbooks stated that "Dokdo is an inherent territory of Japan".