Recently, every day we hear about the protests in China but what are they about? According to the news site we will read today they are mainly about a history book for high school students that has been published recently. The history book uses words like 'incident'  when talking about the Nankin/Nanjin massacre. 'Incident' sounds very light, as if it were an accident, but to many people from China, the massacre at Nanking was a terrible moment in history similar to how the Nazis massacred the minorities in Europe.
  I can tell you, most people in the world do not think of Japan as an evil country, but one problem remains. Some politicians never officially say 'sorry' about all the things that happened back then. They always just say 'it was a shame', or 'it was unfortunate'.  Why do they do this? One reason may be that there are still many old people in Japan who fought in the war and believe that Japan was not so bad.
  Germany on the other hand is a different case. Most German people believe that the government of Germany went in a very bad direction and feel embarrassed that normal German people did not stop them. They feel shame for not stopping the government. They feel as if they believed a lie and were fooled easily.
  Today we will read an article on a site from the BBC ( the NHK of Great Britain ), and do a quiz about it. Click on the link below and do the quiz. Today's quiz may be a little difficult so try your best!

  BBC: ' China's anti-Japan rallies spread '
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4429809.stm