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S Korea summons Japan envoy on textbook, island row
4/7/2005
SEOUL, Apr 6 (Reuters): South Korea summoned Japan's ambassador Wednesday to protest against the approval of a history textbook critics say whitewashes Japanese militarism and Tokyo's claims over disputed islands, officials in Seoul said.
Seoul would also send its top envoy in Tokyo to Japan's foreign ministry to make a similar protest, the South Korean foreign ministry officials said.
Japan's Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiken Sugiura called for calm on both sides over the historical issues.
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