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Editorial: Japan needs more transparency in selection of public school textbooks - The Mainichi

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A corruption case involving the selection of textbooks for public junior high schools surfaced in the Osaka Prefecture city of Fujiidera. It emerged that employees of school textbook publisher Dainippon Tosho Co. had handed cash to a school principal on the city's textbook selection committee in return for favors. In response, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has informally decided to reject the publisher's application for screening of textbooks.

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Editorial: Japan needs more transparency in selection of public school textbooks - The Mainichi

To ensure that textbooks used in Japanese schools are not selected by dishonest means, an open selection system should be introduced.

·Chiyoda, Japan
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Mainichi Shimbun broke the news in Chiyoda, Japan on Tuesday, March 28, 2023.
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