On April 3, 2001 (March 10, 2001 in the lunar calendar), the Japanese government's tampering with history textbooks aroused strong indignation from China, North Korea, South Korea and other countries. On April 3, 2001, the Japanese government passed a textbook that tampered with history and beautified aggression, which immediately aroused strong indignation from countries such as China, North Korea, and South Korea that had suffered from Japanese aggression in history, and governments of various countries expressed protests one after another. This middle school history textbook, which beautifies Japanese aggression and distorts historical facts, was published by Fuso Press and submitted for review in 2000. It was approved by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan in April 2001 and is scheduled to be used in 2002. This incident aroused strong condemnation and protests from China, North Korea, South Korea, Southeast Asian countries and just people around the world. It was also fiercely opposed by people of insight in Japan. As early as early as early March 2001, China Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi solemnly stated China's position on the issue of Japanese history textbooks to the Chargé d'affaires a.i. of the Japanese Embassy in China. He pointed out that the essence of the Japanese textbook issue is whether Japan can "truly correctly understand and deal with the history of past aggression." If history textbooks that promote "Imperial History" and beautify aggression are passed,"it will definitely damage Japan-China relations that have just entered the new century." On April 3, after the Japanese government ignored the strong opposition of the people of all countries and insisted on letting the textbook wantonly confuse right and wrong and confuse right and wrong, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China once again expressed strong indignation and dissatisfaction, pointing out that this textbook "not only did not reflect on the profound disasters caused by Japanese militarism to the people of Asian countries, but instead painted up and used every means to excuse a series of aggressive atrocities committed by the Japanese army that year."