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...
An incident as big as the execution of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s uncle Jang Song Thaek in December 2013 occurred at the center...
North Korea held a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Korean Workers' Party (KWP) from December 28-31. Although some 300 full and candidate...
Despite the 1965 Agreement and payments to mobilized laborers, anti-Japan activists, including Japanese lawyers and extremist labor union members, have traveled to South Korea since the...
In their 1965 treaty, claims settlement agreement and restoration of diplomatic relations, South Korea called for all compensation from Japan to wartime laborers, to be paid...
The stories told by these statistics reveal the reality of wartime laborer, which differs dramatically from the claims of capture and forced labor, or slave labor,...
The foundation of Japan-South Korea relations was shaken by the South Korean Supreme Court’s ruling on wartime laborers in Japan. An explanation of the key terms...
The liquidation of assets of the Japanese companies is precisely a consequence that the 1965 Treaty and Agreement intended to prevent.
On November 22, South Korea’s Moon Jae In government announced the conditional suspension of its earlier decision to terminate the defense intelligence sharing agreement with Japan...
Efforts to solve the North Korea nuclear and abduction issues are at a standstill. One reason for this impasse is that China is using a...
The government of South Korean President Moon Jae In has been criticized as a dictatorship. Two years have passed since Moon’s inauguration — meaning, he...
After the breakdown of the United States-North Korea summit in Hanoi in late February, some in Japan observed that a breakthrough might come on the...