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U.S. Backs Academic Freedom amid Japan’s Effort to Alter Textbook

U.S. Backs Academic Freedom amid Japan’s Effort to Alter Textbook

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States strongly supports academic freedom, the State Department said Sunday, as history scholars criticize Japan for pressuring an American textbook publisher to change the description of Tokyo’s sexual enslavement of Asian women during World War II. A group of American history scholars have issued a protest statement denouncing Japan’s [...]