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A Study on the Political contents of High school Japanese textbook Kim, Eun-Hee 󰡔日本語讀本󰡕 is the first Japanese language textbook in Korean high school. This textbook aims to teach Japanese language, but contains lots of political components. In fact, political components in the textbook are similar to regime propaganda. In this backdrop, this study tries to compare high school Japanese textbook with middle school ethic textbook to reveal how much political contents are included and what these mean. From the results, high school Japanese textbook is similar to ethic textbook in a way that emphasizes decorum of individual and society and nationality supporting sacrifice of self. Ushin regime’s propaganda such as acclimatization of national characters, awareness of national home land, economic development of the country, Saemaul Undong, reunification were all covered in the Japanese language textbook. It is because the education of the 1970s in Korea was a means of injecting national thought. Another reason that high school textbook skewed to political means is that Koreans’ stance on Japanese language was not good that Japanese language was forced to learn under colonial rule. This textbook tried to replace those colonial history and negative attitude, rather showed this language actually helps the development of Korea and stability of ruling regime. This textbook manifests that the ethnicity of Korea will not be hurt despite learning Japanese.