CHINA CHANGES WAR DATE

BEIJING: China will bring forward the start date of the country’s war with Japan by six years in education textbooks, a move which will bolster patriotic education, state media reported. The Chinese War Against Japanese Aggression, China’s name for its war with Japan, will be now be 14 years long, from 1931 to 1945, not the previously taught eight years. The changes make the 1931 Mukden incident, an explosion near a Japaneseowned railway line in northern China that led to Japan’s occupation of Manchuria, into the starting point for the war. – Reuters