Rewriting Another's Historical Viewpoint

I have had enough of countries telling other countries what is the "truth" about the other's past. From George Bush rewriting both history and the present, to Arab and Jewish "versions" of the history of the Holy lands, this modern concept of writing another country's history has gotten out of hand.
What has pushed me over the edge is the latest attempt by one nation to force another to document "truth", in this case China's attempt to force Japan to let China dictate the content of a Japanese school textbook. Surely, Japan's version of W.W. II relations with China is not an accepted view, but trying to make Japan write history from a foreign (Chinese) perspective is just as wrong. In truth, if a country does err and teaches history wrongly, the mistakes will be corrected naturally through normal life experiences of the citizens who live there. They will discover the truth themselves.
Too, what about Chinese text books? Are they pure or missing important information? Of course they are. Some things you will not find in Chinese history textbooks include; that 1989 democratic movement in which the government slaughtered protesters, the millions of innocent Chinese citizens who died in a famine caused by misguided communist policies or China's unprovoked military attacks on India 1962) and Vietnam (1979).
Perhaps China should re write it's own textbooks before commenting on Japan's. No doubt there are numerous omissions about the Chinese communist system's own history and relations with its neighbors. And how can China justify the use of the words like "Jap bandits" in some of their own Chinese texts?. But having said that, every country is in the same position as China and Japan.
The United States, for example, has missing gaps in history texts too- the story behind the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is but one story left out in our own books. In all other countries there are also many omissions or misstatements in their history books.. But does a nation have the sole write to compose it's own history books? I say "yes", even if the texts do not reflect what most other nations believe to be true. Text books are a kind of soul a nation bears to it's youth. They are instruments that translate the culture to youth. Thus, they are the responsibility of the culture itself, not of outsiders.
Unfortunately, to outside nations another country's textbooks are be seen differently. They have become a tool of nationalism to "rewrite history according to their own image of what a particular nations sees it was or should be seen. This is not what they should be. In essence, the accuser (China) in this attempt to re write another's (Japan) history makes no sense on even a practical basis.
While Japan's distortions and omissions of it's history appear to be driven by a reluctance to accept responsibility of the shame of the atrocities committed against China during the war, China's own omissions and distortions of it's history are aimed at preserving the image and rule of the communists.
Therefore, casting stones at another nation's view of itself is a slippery slope for any to undertake. Maybe, as the little kids say countries should "mind their own business".