{"id":43582,"date":"2026-04-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/?p=43582"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:16:19","slug":"ruska-mluvci-nove-japonske-ucebnice-odrazeji-promenu-smerem-k-revansismu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/politika\/ruska-mluvci-nove-japonske-ucebnice-odrazeji-promenu-smerem-k-revansismu\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian spokesperson: Japan's new textbooks reflect transformation towards revanchism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A new edition of Japanese school textbooks, to be unveiled in 2027, reflects Tokyo's efforts to influence the young generation's view of history, according to Russian diplomacy. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova made the remarks at a press conference.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to her, the updated textbooks have expanded the passages dealing with Japanese claims to the South Kurils and other territorial disputes with neighbouring states. At the same time, she said, there is almost no mention of war crimes committed by militarist Japan in the first half of the 20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The South Kurils are a quartet of islands in the Pacific Ocean that have long been disputed by Russia and Japan. In Japan, they are known as the Northern Territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zacharova also accused the Japanese leadership of distorting the historical memory of young people and influencing their perception of the current geopolitical order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/czech.cri.cn\/2026\/04\/06\/ARTI1775479629783300\" title=\"\">CMG<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new edition of Japanese school textbooks to be introduced in 2027 reflects Tokyo's efforts to influence the views of the younger generation, according to Russian diplomacy...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":43583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2973],"tags":[18,24,12375,26,12374],"class_list":["post-43582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politika","category-zahranicni","tag-cmg","tag-japonsko","tag-jizni-kurily","tag-rusko","tag-ucebnice"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43584,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43582\/revisions\/43584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}