Tokyo teacher embattled over war history    But when a Tokyo
city councilman in an official meeting said "Japan never invaded
Korea," her history class sent an apology to Korean President
Roh Moo-hyan - an action that sparked her removal from her
classroom.  The war history dispute in Asia is now so front-and-
center that appears it was cited by South Korea as a reason to
avoid an upcoming December visit to Japan by Mr. Roh. Alongside
the diplomatic row, the Masuda case shows how nationalist
policies are creeping into the minutiae of daily life in Japan's
capital city.  Masuda, who says her two sons have Korean
friends, got censured after her class did a study group on
Japan's occupation of Korea. Her social studies class wrote a
letter of apology to Roh, and sent it to the Korean Embassy in
Toyko. In a cover letter, Masuda said that councilman Koga
Toshiaki's remarks were "a disgrace" by objective historical
standards, but "regrettably [they] can be presented proudly as a
triumph in the assembly of Tokyo, the