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Japan's history textbooks to go online

Chinese and Korean translations of Japanese history textbooks will be posted online Wednesday in an effort to dispel charges that they distort wartime history. In a press release Tuesday the ministry said parts of eight textbooks that deal with Japan's modern history would be translated and posted on the company's Web site (www.je-kaleidoscope.jp) with a link to the site on the ministry's Web site.
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