Government officials hinted changes in textbooks may be coming - references to forced mass civilian suicides during WWII will be reinstated.
In Okinawa, 100,000 people protested against a government order to modify sections of several high school textbooks that mentioned the Japanese army - "faced with a U.S. invasion in 1945 -- distributed grenades to island residents and urged them to kill themselves rather than surrender to the Americans."
Tokyo has consistently tried to soften brutal attacks of the Japanese during the war.
The Okinawans don't want it forgotten what it is Tokyo wanted them to do.
Historians say that some 500 civilians were led to believe that U.S. soldiers would commit horrible atrocities and consequently killed themselves and their families to avoid being captured.
The reference to the government induced suicide was removed. Now the fight is on to get it back.
Do you think a government should be able to 'soften history?'
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