Editing Second Sino-Japanese War (section)

===China-Japan relations===
Today, the war is a major point of contention and resentment between China and Japan. The war remains a major roadblock for [[Sino-Japanese relations]]. Issues regarding the current historical outlook on the war exist. For example, the Japanese government has been accused of [[historical revisionism]] by allowing the approval of a few [[Japanese textbook controversy|school textbooks]] omitting or glossing over Japan's militant past, although the most recent controversial book, the ''New History Textbook'' was used by only 0.039% of junior high schools in Japan<ref>Sven Saaler: Politics, Memory and Public Opinion: The History Textbook Controversy and Japanese Society. Munich: 2005</ref> and despite the efforts of the Japanese nationalist textbook reformers, by the late 1990s the most common Japanese schoolbooks contained references to, for instance, the Nanjing Massacre, [[Unit 731]], and the [[comfort women]] of World War II, all historical issues which have faced challenges from ultranationalists in the past.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s841387.htm|title=Foreign Correspondent – 22/04/2003: Japan – Unit 731|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=13 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803172812/http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s841387.htm|archive-date=3 August 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2005, a history textbook prepared by the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform which had been approved by the government in 2001, sparked huge outcry and protests in China and Korea. It referred to the Nanjing Massacre and other atrocities such as the [[Manila massacre]] as an "incident", glossed over the issue of comfort women, and made only brief references to the death of Chinese soldiers and civilians in Nanjing.<ref>{{cite web |last=Oi |first=Mariko |date=14 March 2013 |title=What Japanese history lessons leave out |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21226068 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616083041/https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21226068 |archive-date=16 June 2018 |access-date=21 June 2018 |publisher=BBC}}</ref> A copy of the 2005 version of a junior high school textbook titled ''New History Textbook'' found that there is no mention of the "Nanjing Massacre" or the "Nanjing Incident". Indeed, the only one sentence that referred to this event was: "they [the Japanese troops] occupied that city in December".<ref>{{cite web |last=Wang |first=Zheng |date=23 April 2014 |title=History Education: The Source of Conflict Between China and Japan |url=https://thediplomat.com/2014/04/history-education-the-source-of-conflict-between-china-and-japan/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171111205550/https://thediplomat.com/2014/04/history-education-the-source-of-conflict-between-china-and-japan/ |archive-date=11 November 2017 |access-date=11 November 2017 |website=The Diplomat}}</ref>