It said that the Nov. 4 announcement of the "committee for compiling national history" that it could not open to public the writing group of "state-compiled" history textbook means its intention to write "state-compiled textbook" in secret room.

Now that the overwhelming majority of historical and educational circles declared the refusal to write "state-compiled textbook", those who would respond to writing are only neo-conservative forces keen on embellishing pro-Japanese acts and dictatorship, the editorial said.