Civic group rallies against Japanese history textbook April 10, SEOUL, South Korea -- Members of the Asian Peace and History Education Network, a Seoul-based civic group, rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on April 10 to demand that Tokyo reverse its authorization of a junior high history textbook. The book paints Japan's colonization of the Korean Peninsula as aimed at modernizing Korea, and glosses over much of its imperialist past. (Yonhap)