The author explains why and how brothel owners used contracts to secure the services of comfort women in the prewar and wartime era of Japanese history.
The author analyzes how poverty was at the root of the comfort women issue and explains why resolving the diplomatic issue requires acknowledging this fact.
South Korea's government needs to investigate the truth as chroniclers continue irresponsibly perpetuating the comfort women issue by reciting the folklore.
Longtime scholar of Korean Peninsula issues, Professor Tsutomu Nishioka analyzes the challenges and progress in relations between Japan and South Korea.
While Pyongyang foments rancor in the comfort women issue, "The path to friendship between Japan and South Korea lies in the facts" ーProfessor Tsutomu Nishioka.
"Now, anyone who spends thirty minutes skimming the internet will discover that there's a real debate" about the comfort women issue ー Dr J Mark Ramseyer.
A healthy debate is needed to set back on track what Asahi Shimbun ruined with its concocted report on comfort women in 1991.
On March 3, the High Court gave me a perfect victory in a libel case brought against me by former Asahi Shimbun newspaper reporter Takashi...
In 1991, Takashi Uemura wrote an article based on a recording that was made by the first of the “comfort women” to go public, Kim...
Former Asahi Shimbun newspaper reporter Takashi Uemura said at The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) that he regrets he “won the debate” over his...