China lashes out over Japanese textbook

China lashed out on Saturday after a Tokyo school agreed to use a history text book heavily criticised for glossing over Japan's military past.
A statement carried by the official Xinhua news agency said right-wing elements were launching "secluded and fraudulent" attempts to present their view of the past which were "doomed to failure".
"It is the Japanese rightists' customary tactics to distort history and impart to younger generations an erroneous or even reactionary view of history through textbooks," the statement said.