In an interview, Park Yuha argues that comfort women activism started with good intentions but ignored the universal issue in a rush to hold Japan liable.
Hata provides an objective dissent on orthodox views of comfort women in Korea while also acknowledging the poverty that plagued many Chosun women victims.
After being caught off guard and flip-flopping on the statue's status, German officials appear to be considering new ways to calm the international controversy.
“My people and the international community…are being deceived by such malicious propaganda.” — Kim Byungheon, advocate against comfort women fraud.
The End Comfort Women Fraud group says the statue and textual inscription of the “Statue of Peace” run counter to the historical evidence and mislead viewers.
Japan and South Korea are important neighbors. It’s time to look at the records, pay respect to Korean society of the era, and overcome the issues...
Point by point, renowned expert in Japanese legal history J. Mark Ramseyer shows how his critics were “wrong on law,” “wrong on facts,” and totally missed...
Quarreling over whether or not such statues should be erected in public spaces has created friction among local residents and led to the division of local...
This incident represents the second infringement on academic freedom this year in the debate about the history of wartime comfort women.
The comfort women issue will not be resolved by running away from the facts and stifling debate because it is not what you want to hear.
The critics’ aim is to intimidate public intellectuals through Nazi-like mob-attack tactics.
The installation of the statue in Germany is not only incompatible with South Korea’s 2015 and earlier agreements with Japan, but it is an unduly one-sided,...