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This study is aimed at reviewing whether the high school history textbooks of both Korea and Japan, which are two parties of the Japanese Invasion of 1592(Imjin Wearan), describe the Imjin Wearan from an impartial and objective point of view, and clarifying how the perception of the war expressed in historical descriptions has influenced the awareness which two countries have of the counterpart. The history textbooks of two countries show a tendency to describe specifically the success(or victory) of his or her own country, and to evade the description of their failure(or defeat). Besides, Korea imputed every war guilty to Japan, the invader, and Japan did not reflect actively the standpoint of Korea, the victim even though she admitted the fact of invasion. Nevertheless, unlike Korea which has the only one history textbook, Japan has eleven history textbooks, among which there is a textbook like “High School Japan History B(Jitkyo)”, which describes actively the invasion of Japan and the suffering of Korea.