中国の反日デモ

>I always wonder what do the majority of Japanese people think about
>the change of history textbook.

It is kid of difficult to describe opinions of majority regarding this matter because what really happened is still controversial.
Most of Japanese know behaviors of Japanese army at WW2 must not be repeated.
The controversial part is like “Ok, we were bad, but how bad?”

Let me suggest one example.
Chinese government insists about 400,000 people got killed at Nanking atrocities in 1937.
However, the population of Nanking city at that time is estimated around 200,000.
Did Japanese army was so brutal that they even killed 200,000 people who did not exist?
Simple math tells you difficulties to find out the truth about war.

Besides that, do you know we have various kinds of history textbooks in Japan?
and most of Japanese textbooks describe Nanking atrocities, sex slaves, and general cruelties of Japanese army at WW2?

As a matter of fact, among those textbooks, one paticular history textbook describes Nanking atrocities as “the truth is still controversial.”
This is what Chinese government calls "history change."

What is the problem to describe something actually controversial as “controversial”?

So my interpretation of Chinese government's intentions regarding this matter is not about history re-writing.

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