S. Korea expresses 'regret' over Japan’s approval of history textbooks, urges rectification

South Korea’s Education Ministry on Tuesday denounced a Japanese government panel's approval of high school textbooks containing what Seoul described as "historical distortions." “The Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Education expresses its deep regret over the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s decision to pass textbooks which claim territorial sovereignty over the Dokdo islets and distort historical facts based on the country’s self-centric historical pers

By The Korea Herald