BANGKOK: All is not well in East Asia. China, South Korea and Japan have been squabbling over the disparities between their various takes on the region’s history, particularly where Japan’s wartime atrocities are concerned, and the version presented in a batch of Japanese school textbooks recently approved by the government.
Between this issue and the multiple outstanding border disputes that have been ruffling diplomatic and nationalist feathers for the past several months, East Asian rows have dominated news headlines.
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