Owing to a curriculum controlled by the powerful Japan Teachers Union, since the end of WWII many Japanese youth have viewed the Japan-China relationship with a consciousness of the need for atonement for the Sino-Japanese War. Today, however, calls are growing to promote a more accurate and balanced historical education that focuses on modern history after the Meiji Restoration and WWII, and that reflects the reality of the Sino-Japanese relationship free from an obsession with "atonement."