On August 3rd Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reorganized his Cabinet. After the investiture ceremony at the Imperial Palace, he launched his third restructured Cabinet. That...
On September 15, North Korea launched a new type of variable trajectory ballistic missiles. In the debate about how Japan is to defend itself from such...
On July 6, a voluntary group intent on ending the bias in reporting on the issue of wartime comfort women met with The...
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.
In an interview, Nobukatsu Fujioka and Yumiko Yamamoto discuss J Mark Ramseyer’s new book on comfort women, recently translated into Japanese and Korean.
Predictions are that the core of this historical confrontation will shift as South Koreans take a fresh look at North Korea's role. Will Tokyo follow?
"My position on the comfort women issue is predicated on historical evidence and research" says Dr Tetsuo Arima in response to critics who would "cancel" him.
Pyongyang has peddled the comfort women story to divert attention from its weapons program and state-sponsored abduction.
Hata provides an objective dissent on orthodox views of comfort women in Korea while also acknowledging the poverty that plagued many Chosun women victims.
South Korea funded a foundation to promote its anti-Japan historical perspective, and Japan should counter this with its own research institute.
If it were to become clear to everyone that there is no evidence of “forceful taking away,” going forward we might be able to face history...
Parents’ agreement to what their daughters were being recruited for was indisputably the “contracts.” Critics of Harvard Professor J. Mark Ramseyer don’t seem to be aware...