Those who dislike Harvard Law Professor J. Mark Ramseyer’s scholarly interpretation — that comfort women were voluntary employees under contract — have failed to cite any...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan has long hesitated to speak clearly on the facts of Japan’s wartime history, leading to widespread falsehoods and misunderstanding....
The latest ruling must therefore be criticized not only on its violation of the principle of international law on sovereign immunity, but on the basis of...
Japan and South Korea signed an agreement in 2015, resolving the comfort women issue ‘finally and irreversibly.’ The Moon Jae In administration has been trampling all...
As academics, we are used to dealing with exaggerations. We are not used to finding that the story is pure fiction. But that is the nature...
It’s a story that was covered lightly by Japanese newspapers, including the Sankei Shimbun. But the Supreme Court’s recent decision to dismiss the appeal...
The Japanese comfort women program has become a dominant symbol of an era encompassing the Asia-Pacific War. Koreans have aggressively highlighted the issue by having...
The international community now sits at the crossroads in the face of China’s heightening of tensions with the United States as it pursues hegemony in...
There is a new book out with original source information on Korean comfort women. American Soldiers Witnessed Korean Comfort Women-”Flowers of the War” (2020) contains...
In South Korea, former comfort woman Lee Yong Soo has harshly criticized Yoon Mee Hyang, a former leader of a powerful comfort women support group,...
Until countries went into various levels of lockdown, a film dealing with the comfort women issue was being screened in North America and Europe. Entitled...
South Korean films are popular around the world. But while in the film world a South Korean film called Parasite has made headlines, in...