据日本有关媒体报道,日本教科书出版商在执政的自民党和部分历史学家的压力下,在初中教学课本草稿中淡化日本在二次世界大战时的暴行。 假如有关草稿获政府通过,2002学年开始使用的8本初中生历史课本中,只有3本提及“慰安妇”。由于部分仍健在的慰安妇控告日本政府,要求赔偿,东京政府才在1993年承认“慰安妇”被日军当作性奴隶 According to Japanese media reports, under the pressure of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and some historians, Japanese textbook publishers have played down the Japanese atrocities committed during the Second World War. If the draft was approved by the government, only three of the eight junior high school history textbooks that were used in the 2002 academic year referred to “comfort women.” As some of the comfort women still alive sued the Japanese government for compensation, the Tokyo government admitted in 1993 that “comfort women” were treated as sex slaves by Japanese troops