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More than 100,000 people in Japan have taken part in a rally against changes to school textbook accounts of a controversial wartime episode.

When US soldiers invaded Okinawa at the end of World War II, more than 200,000 people died.

Hundreds of them were Japanese civilians who killed themselves.

The textbooks, intended for use in high schools next year, said that as the Americans prepared to invade, the Japanese army handed out grenades to Okinawa residents and ordered them to kill themselves.

Many survivors insist the military told people to commit suicide, partly due to fears over what they might tell the invaders and because being taken prisoner was considered shameful.

Как, все-таки, людям важно, чтобы дети думали, что их предки были честными и благородными людьми. Можно представить себе, какая невероятная работа была сделана в Германии, для того, чтобы отучить новые поколения немцев от нацизма.