Abstract
The purpose of this study is to examine why textbook issue in Japan have continuously occurred by analyzing the ‘structure of textbook issue’ composed of ‘multiplicity’, ‘diversity’, and ‘simultaneity’. Since the textbook issue occurred in 1982, these elements of the textbook issue such as ‘multiplicity’, ‘diversity’, and ‘simultaneity’ have appeared. First, ‘multiplicity’ has appeared as the textbook writing standards became a problem together with the contents of the textbook since the 2008 revision. Second, ‘diversity’ began with high school social studies textbooks, and since then, it has been expanded to middle and elementary school social studies textbooks. Third, several textbooks related to various social studies subjects caused textbook issue at the same time in middle and high schools and the number of grades using controversial textbooks has increased in elementary schools. In this way, the structure of textbook issue was formed through ‘multiplicity’, ‘diversity’, and ‘simultaneity’, and the ‘structure’ was gradually strengthened. In turn, this structure has continuously triggered textbook issue.
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