Japan's Supreme Court said the Education Ministry broke the law when it deleted passages from a history textbook about Japan's biological experiments on 3,000 people in China during World War II. The court also ruled that the ministry can keep screening textbooks, giving historian Saburo Ienaga a partial vicotry in his 32-year battle against academic censorship.
Censored Textbooks
Japan's Supreme Court said the Education Ministry broke the law when it deleted passages from a history textbook about Japan's biological experiments on 3,000 people in China during World War II. The court also ruled that the ministry can keep screening textbooks, giving historian Saburo Ienaga a partial vicotry in his 32-year battle against academic censorship.
