This spring, high schools around Japan are rolling out a groundbreaking required course combining modern Japanese and world history. A high school principal explores the new curriculum and its promise ...

Before I discuss the textbook system itself, I believe it would be helpful to touch on its political and social background. History textbooks currently constitute a delicate political issue involving ...

山川出版社（東京都千代田区、代表取締役：野澤武史）は、昭和26年から70年余りにわたって文部科学省検定教科書の出版に携わり、教科書や学習参考書のほか、歴史学を中心とした書籍を多く刊行しています。 このストーリーでは、高等学校の日本史教科 ...

The 20th century saw a profound shift in emphasis to social history, people’s history and latterly, the history of those pushed to the margins — women, people of color and the working class. At times ...

Ask any Japanese high school student which is their most difficult subject, and chances are they'll answer Japanese History — a consequence of the endless litany of dates, names and battles they need ...

Seiya Matsuno, a researcher at Meiji Gakuin University's International Peace Research Institute, was born in 1974 and has been conducting self-funded research on historical topics including the ...