Japan and its neighbors exchanged sharp words Tuesday after Tokyo made public school textbooks hew closer to its stance on history and toughened an annual foreign-policy report. As the WSJ's Yuka ...

Fueling an international dispute over wartime history, Japan’s government approved a new public school textbook Tuesday that China and South Korea immediately denounced as “poison” for whitewashing ...

After a summer filled with protests by historians, human-rights groups, and high-level officials from neighboring countries, educators in Japan appear to have shunned controversial history textbooks ...

TOKYO - Japanese government on Friday approved new elementary school textbooks claiming the disputed Diaoyu Islands as part of Japan's territory, arousing strong denunciation from China immediately.