Current Issues
Recently there has been controversy about the inclusion of the Liancourt Rocks (sovereignty over the islands is disputed between Japan and South Korea) as being part of Japan in Japanese teacher's guidebooks for social study classes for junior high school students.
Read more about this topic: Japanese History Textbook Controversies, Major Controversies
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