Nihon rekishi. ge-kan : Shihan gakkōyō kyō kasho [Japanese history vol. 2 : for normal schools] / Minegishi Yonezō hen. Kai-han. (Tōkyō : Rokumeikan , Taishō 13 [1924]) Taishō 13-nen Shihan gakkō rekishi-ka Monbushō kentei zumi.

The long-running Japanese history textbooks controversy is about how historical events are presented in official Japanese school textbooks. The controversy centres on how Japan's aggression in the Sino-Japanese War and in World War II is portrayed.

Atarashii Rekishi Kyōkasho o Tsukuru Kai (Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform) is a group founded in 1997 to promote a more accurate view of Japanese history. The group was responsible for authoring a history textbook published in Fusosha, but it was still heavily criticised by China and South Korea for not including full accounts of, or downplaying, the wartime activities of Imperial Japan during World War II, such as referring to the Nanjing Massacre as the ‘Nanjing Incident’ and forgoing use of the term ‘comfort women’ . The textbook also highlighted Japan's claim to Takeshima ( Liancourt Rocks) and Senkaku islands, whose sovereignty is being disputed by Korea and China.

The book is volume 2 of an old Japanese history textbook (1924) that covers the Meiji period from the Meiji new administration until the demise of the Meiji emperor. The photograph shows Japanese and other foreigners in Beijing in 1900 during the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion.

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