Smiling and bowing deeply, an 83-year-old historian, Saburo Ienaga, acknowledged his victory in a court battle that has taken 3 decades: Compelling Japan to tell schoolchildren the full story of its actions in World War II. Fifty-two years after WWII, Japan has not come to terms with the war crimes its troops committed against Asian and Western soldiers and civilians. That is especially true when the issue is how much Japan’s schoolchildren should read about atrocities such as the Imperial Japanese Army’s slaughter of up to 300,000 Chinese in the Rape of Nanjing. “We will take the ruling seriously and continue to make sure contents of textbooks are appropriate.”-Takashi Kosugi, Education Minister.