The issue of the leap year between the Northern and Southern Courts

Japanese: 南北朝正閏問題 - なんぼくちょうせいじゅんもんだい

A controversy arose over the view of the national history textbooks in 1911 that the Northern and Southern Courts existed side by side. Mikami Sanji argued for the side by side theory, Yoshida Togo for the Northern Court orthodoxy, and Kuroita Katsumi for the Southern Court orthodoxy. In parliament, Fujisawa Genzo submitted a questionnaire to the government, and the second Katsura Taro cabinet decided in a cabinet meeting that the Southern Court orthodoxy was the case. Kita Sadakichi of the Ministry of Education, who had edited the textbook Jinjo Elementary Japanese History, which had adopted the side by side theory, was suspended, and the textbooks were revised, with the entry for the Northern and Southern Courts changed to the Yoshino Court.

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Japanese:

1911年国定歴史教科書の南北朝並立の見解をめぐって起こった論争。並立説で三上参次，北朝正統で吉田東伍，南朝正統で黒板勝美らが論戦。議会では藤沢元造が政府に質問書を提出，第２次桂太郎内閣は南朝正統を閣議で決定し，並立説を採用していた教科書《尋常(じんじょう)小学日本歴史》の編者で文部省の喜田貞吉を休職処分とし教科書を改訂，南北朝の項が吉野朝にかえられた。

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