place in disputed territorial waters. The companies have not yet been formally granted permission to drill and this is expected to take several months. China National Offshore Oil Corporation, a Chinese, state-owned company, plans to drill near the disputed EEZ line between China and Japan beginning in August. See also List of war apology statements issued by Japan Anti-Japanese sentiment Anti-Japanese sentiment in China Anti-Japanese sentiment in Korea Fei hua qing han Historical revisionism Japanese war crimes Nanking Massacre denial Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform Japan Teachers Union Senkaku Islands Liancourt Rocks Sino-Japanese relations Chinese nationalism May 1968 events in France Sinocentrism Fenqing Japanese nationalism 2012 China anti-Japanese demonstrations 2005 French riots References Further reading Ienaga, Saburō. Taiheiyō Sensō. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1968. Written as a counterweight to the controversial textbooks, it attempts to survey the reasons for and the conduct of the Pacific War from 1931 to 1945. Translated and entitled variously: The Pacific War, 1931–1945: A Critical Perspective on Japan's role in World War II. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. . The Pacific War: World War II and the Japanese, 1931–1945. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. . Japan's Last War: World War II and the Japanese, 1931–1945. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1979. . Saaler, Sven; Politics, Memory and Public Opinion : The History Textbook Controversy and Japanese Society . Munich: Iudicium, 2005. External links New History Textbook - English translation of the schoolbook which is criticized by China and the Republic of Korea (Modern times history relation & contemporary history relation) Translated Version of Controversial Japanese Textbook to Go Online English Translations of Japan's Middle School History Textbooks (JE Caleidoscope) Japan textbook angers Chinese, Korean press - BBC coverage of the story. Pictures from around the world of protests against the Japanese history textbooks "Textbook Authorization System in Japan" by Miki Y. Ishikida Are Japanese textbooks distorting history? (Archived 2009-10-22) Essay: "Origins of the April 2005 Anti-Japanese Protests in the People's Republic of China", by Aron Patrick Protests in Korea Conflicts in 2005 Heisei period History of South Korea History of the Philippines (1986–present) Foreign relations of Post-war Japan Japan–South Korea relations China–Japan relations Anti-imperialism in Korea Anti-Japanese sentiment in China Anti-Japanese sentiment in South Korea Anti-war protests Anti-Japanese Demonstrations, 2005 Anti-Japanese Demonstrations, 2005 Anti-Japanese Demonstrations, 2005 2005 in Japan Riots and civil disorder in China Protests in China Protests in South Korea Anti-Japanese Demonstrations, 2005