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This year’s September 1st marks 90 years from Japan’s Great Kantō Earthquake. When the magnitude 7.9 earthquake has hit the Kantō area, Japan’s government has declared martial law. Under those conditions many Koreans and Chinese residents of Japan as well as suspected socialists were murdered by groups of vigilantes. This article compares and analyzes the narratives on the post-quake “massacre incidents” in 27 history textbooks recently screened and approved by Japan’s Ministry of Education. The results of the examination conducted here suggest that the overall number of dead and missing persons mentioned in the newly authorized textbooks has decreased. Also the number of books that provide a clear depiction of the incident has decreased and so has the number of books that provide a illustration with massacre incidents and groups of vigilantes. Arguably, the conservative attacks on the established historical narrative as well as the newly enhanced Ministry of Education textbooks’ screening process has weakened the narrative on the massacres but the task of erasing the narrative completely is much more difficult to achieve.
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The Great Kantō Earthquake, Massacre Incidents, National Curriculum, Screening of School Textbooks, Attacks on Textbooks
