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Category: History

Books

[JAPAN LIBRARY] Mutsu Munemitsu and His Time

February 14, 2019 6:45 pm

JPIC Leave your thoughts

Presented by Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC)     This book traces the footsteps of modern Japan’s diplomacy […]

Special Reports

A Rebuttal to President Moon’s Claims on Wartime Korean Workers in Japan

February 8, 2019 2:00 am

Tsutomu Nishioka 1 Comment

  South Korean President Moon Jae In, in his New Year press conference on January 10, made a remark that […]

Special Reports

INTERVIEW | Harvard Professor Mark Ramseyer Asks, ‘What’s Gotten Into the Korean Judiciary?’

January 31, 2019 12:27 am

Jason Morgan, Reitaku University 1 Comment

  Mark Ramseyer, Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, is one of the world’s foremost authorities […]

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Uemura, It’s Pointless to Pursue Your ‘Comfort Women’ Defamation Case

January 28, 2019 11:44 pm

Tetsuhide Yamaoka, Australia-Japan Community Network Leave your thoughts

  Former Asahi Shimbun newspaper reporter Takashi Uemura said at The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) that he regrets […]

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Koreans in Wartime Japan: Don’t Confuse Illegal Immigrants with Recruited Workers

January 21, 2019 10:49 pm

Tsutomu Nishioka Leave your thoughts

  (Second in a 3-Part Series)     Part 1: The Reality of the Mobilization of Koreans During World War […]

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The Reality of the Mobilization of Koreans During World War II – An Analysis Based on Statistics and Written Records

January 10, 2019 10:48 pm

Tsutomu Nishioka Leave your thoughts

  (First of a 3-Part Series)   In 1965, Japan and South Korea normalized their diplomatic relations. Japan paid South Korea $ […]

Probing Deeper into the BTS T-Shirt Controversy

December 8, 2018 11:10 am

Katsuhiro Kuroda, Sankei Shimbun Leave your thoughts

      The Korean media seems to think the issue has been settled when the production company handling the […]

Who is the Revisionist? Not the Journalist Who Called ‘Comfort Women’ Reports ‘Fabrication’

December 7, 2018 7:54 am

Arielle Busetto 1 Comment

      “I am not a revisionist,” Yoshiko Sakurai said calmly, despite the sudden rise in tension in the […]

Special Reports

EDITORIAL | Dissolving ‘Comfort Women’ Foundation, South Korea Puts Ties With Japan at Risk

November 29, 2018 11:27 pm

Editorial Board, Sankei Shimbun 1 Comment

      The Sankei Shimbun   Trampling on a key bilateral accord, the South Korean government announced on November […]

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BTS T-shirt Controversy Shows Korea Needs to Study History

November 24, 2018 11:14 pm

Earl Kinmonth Leave your thoughts

      The recent controversy over a T-shirt linking the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki to Korean liberation from Japanese […]

Special Reports

Memories of the Gripsholm Exchange: Living on Both Sides in World War II

2:12 am

Archie Miyamoto Leave your thoughts

      More than 100 American citizen minors were collected and sent for an exchange of civilians between the […]

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Let’s Not Aid South Korean Supreme Court’s Misperception of Facts on Wartime Labor

November 21, 2018 12:15 am

Tsutomu Nishioka Leave your thoughts

      Just after the South Korean Supreme Court ruled that Japan’s Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corporation should […]

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