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In the ongoing debate over the mistaken paragraphs in McGraw-Hill’s history textbook regarding the so-called comfort women issue, the December 2015 issue of “Perspectives on History,” the official publication of the American Historical Association, has published a letter from 50 Japanese historians in rebuttal to the 20 American historians who stood by McGraw-Hill.


English:
https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/december-2015/letter-to-the-editor-multiple-authors-on-standing-with-historians-of-japan

However, the most compelling rebuttal was published in the July issue of the same magazine and authored by Jason Morgan, an American historian studying for his doctorate degree in history at the University of Wisconsin..
English:
https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/summer-2015/letter-to-the-editor-jason-morgan-on-standing-with-historians-of-japan

It is a blistering and very refreshing attack on those historians who are quick to label people with views of history other than their own as “historical revisionists.”

It is comforting to know that there are still some objective historians in the United States.


Kent Gilbert