On March 18 the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan confirmed and made public the results of screening the textbooks to be used at schools in 2017.

Tok Islets are designated as "part of the territory of Japan" in the 27 kinds of history textbooks out of 35 kinds of textbooks dealing with social subjects that passed the screening.

The above-said controversial textbooks account for 77 percent of all the textbooks or 8 percent increase over those two years back.