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Wed, May 31, 2023 | 13:07
Japan adopts absurd claims in textbooks
정부, 日교과서 도발 규탄…"아베, 약속 저버리는것"
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By Jun Ji-hye

The foreign ministry called in Japanese Ambassador to Korea Koro Bessho, Friday, to protest his government's decision adopt more claims on Dokdo, in school textbooks. / Yonhap
The foreign ministry called in Japanese Ambassador to Korea Koro Bessho, Friday, to protest his government's decision adopt more claims on Dokdo, in school textbooks. / Yonhap
The Japanese government Friday approved newly revised textbooks for elementary schools claiming that Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo are Tokyo's and they are illegally occupied.

Seoul lodged a strong protest, warning the move will further strain relations between the two countries.

The foreign ministry called in Japanese Ambassador to Korea Koro Bessho.

Japan's education ministry approved eight social studies textbooks for fifth- and sixth-graders that contain the claims.

The ministry screens and authorizes all Japanese school textbooks every four years.

Among the five textbooks that passed the screening in 2010, just one contained the specific description of Japan's territorial claim to the islets.

Others indirectly claimed the country's Dokdo ownership by using visual images, such as maps.

However, eight newly approved textbooks all contain these provocative arguments, with maps identifying the islets by their Japanese name of Takeshima.

Such textbooks also downplay the country's wartime misdeeds. Only two books contain reference to the massacre of Koreans in 1923.

In its "Diplomatic Bluebook for 2014," Japan also maintained its unilateral claims that "Dokdo historically and legally belongs to Tokyo."

The controversial move came just days after President Park Geun-hye met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe along with U.S. President Barack Obama in The Hague.

The meeting marked Park's first official meeting with Abe since her inauguration more than a year ago.

The foreign and education ministries issued strong statements of condemnation.

"We express strong regret over the Japanese government's approval of revised school books that increased its provocative level against Seoul," said the foreign ministry in its statement.

The statement said if the Japanese government offers education for elementary students with the purpose of concealing and distorting its shameful history during the age of imperialism, it will only come at the peril of being isolated from international society.

The ministry also expressed its regret over the "Bluebook," saying "Japan repeated ridiculous claims."

However, Hakubun Shimomura, Japanese minister of education, said, "It is a matter of course to teach students the correct perception of the history of their homeland."


정부, 日교과서 도발 규탄…"아베, 약속 저버리는것"

벳쇼 日대사 불러 항의…'제3기 역사공동연구' 출범도 요구

    정부는 4일 일본이 부당한 독도 영유권 주장 등을 담은 초등학교 교과서 검정 결과와 외교청서(한국의 외교백서에 해당)를 발표한 것에 항의하면서 한일관계에 심각한 영향을 초래할 수 있다고 경고했다.

    우리 정부는 이날 일본의 교과서 검정결과와 관련, 외교부 대변인 명의의 성명을 내고 '일본 정부가 지난 1월28일 중·고교 학습지도요령 해설서 개정에 이어 2010년보다 독도에 대한 도발 수위를 더욱 높인 초등학교 교과서를 검정 통과시킨 것을 강력히 규탄한다'고 밝혔다.

    정부는 '아베 신조(安倍晋三) 일본 총리가 불과 3주 전 국회에서 역대 내각의 역사인식을 계승한다고 공언했다'면서 '그러고서도 초등학생들에게까지 제국주의 침탈 역사를 왜곡·은폐하는 교육을 실시한다면 이는 스스로의 약속을 저버리는 것이고 미래세대를 국제사회로부터 고립시키는 우를 범하는 것임을 명심해야 한다'고 비판했다.

    정부는 '일본 정부가 교과서 검정제도를 빙자해 독도 도발을 계속한다면 한일관계 개선의 길은 멀어질 수밖에 없다는 점을 분명히 경고한다'고 밝혔다.

    교육부도 대변인 성명을 통해 '자라나는 세대에게 거짓 주장을 가르치고 침략의 역사를 정당화하는 것은 인근 국가들과의 선린은 물론 동북아 지역의 평화를 위태롭게 할 수 있는 매우 비교육적 행위'라고 비판했다.

    정부는 '국제법에 의한 독도분쟁' 해결을 주장한 일본 외교청서 발표에 대해서도 별도의 외교부 대변인 성명을 통해 '일본 정부가 외교청서 발표를 통해 우리 고유의 영토인 독도에 대해 또다시 터무니없는 주장을 반복한 데 대해 강한 유감을 표명한다'고 밝혔다.

    정부는 '일본 정부는 독도에 대한 억지주장을 되풀이하는 것이 일본이 제국주의 침탈 역사의 미망에서 벗어나지 못하는 것을 보여주는 것으로 한일 관계는 물론 동북아의 평화와 안정에도 심각한 손상을 초래할 것이라는 점을 분명히 인식하여야 할 것'이라고 강조했다.

    조태용 외교부 1차관은 이날 오후 벳쇼 고로(別所浩郞) 주한 일본대사를 외교부로 불러 일본의 독도 관련 부당한 주장에 대해 엄중히 항의하고 올바른 역사인식을 촉구한 뒤 우리 정부 입장을 담은 외교문서를 전달했다.

    정부는 또 외교경로를 통해 일본에 제3기 역사공동연구 출범을 촉구하고 있는 것으로 전해졌다.

    한일 양국은 지난 2001년 일본의 역사교과서 왜곡 사태 이후 양국 정상간 합의에 따라 2002년 역사공동연구위원회를 출범시킨뒤 1, 2기에 걸쳐 공동 연구를 진행했다. 그러나 이후 일본의 소극적 대응으로 3기 공동연구가 진행이 안되고 있다.

    교육부는 독도교육을 강화하기 위해 초·중·고등학교 학교급별로 독도교육의 목표를 명확히 하는 방향으로 독도교육 내용 체계를 개정하기로 했다.

    정부는 이밖에 민간차원에서 한중간 일본군 위안부 문제 공동 연구도 추진할 예정인 것으로 알려졌다.

    이와 함께 일본의 올바른 역사인식을 촉구한다는 차원에서 다음달 초 박승춘 국가보훈처장 등으로 구성된 정부 대표단의 중국 하얼빈(哈爾濱) 안중근 의사 기념관 참배 방안도 추진하고 있다.
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