Japan and its neighbors exchanged sharp words Tuesday after Tokyo made public school textbooks hew closer to its stance on history and toughened an annual foreign-policy report. As the WSJ's Yuka ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Korea filed a complaint against Japan on Tuesday for approving history textbooks that officials say “distort historical ...

Japan has dismissed South Korea’s protest over the alleged distortion of historical and territorial facts in Japan’s new high school textbooks that were approved on Tuesday. After the approval of the ...

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SEOUL (CBS.MW) -- Amid mounting anger here over Japan's refusal to make changes to history textbooks that allegedly whitewash Tokyo's wartime record, the South Korean government is taking its ...

Surviving former crew members of Japan's Imperial Navy battleship Yamato and descendants of her crew attend a memorial service for the ship's 3,000 crew on the 70th anniversary of Yamato's sinking ...

Japan may revise guidelines for middle and high school textbooks to describe the South Korean islets of Dokdo as the country’s “indigenous territory,” Japanese media reported Saturday. Tokyo’s ...