At the urging of the U.S., Beijing may take changing names of some state-run enterprises as a “minor offense”. But Taipei’s deliberate tampering with history, especially about Japan and Japanese World War II atrocities in China, is different.

Last week, in two of the newly revised history textbooks for Taiwan’s high schools, Japan’s 50-year colonial rule of the island is now called “governance” rather than “occupation” as in the past. And the terms “our country” and “this country” are replaced with the word “China,” an obvious attempt to downplay Taiwan’s cultural and historical ties with the mainland.

Furthermore, the “Rape of Nanking,” the heinous six-week massacre that began after the then Chinese capital fell to the Japanese troops on Dec. 13, 1937, was completely omitted in one textbook and barely mentioned in four others.

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