Travel
Samurai Spirit of Fukushima: The Shonentai Youth Corps of Nihonmatsu Castle
(First of 3 Parts) At the end of the Edo period (1600-1868), Japan was in turmoil. There had […]
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A Mingling of Souls at Yasukuni — Toward A Strong, Beautiful Japan
In February 2018, just before his summit meeting with President Donald Trump, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe laid a […]
Books
[JAPAN LIBRARY] Mutsu Munemitsu and His Time
Presented by Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC) This book traces the footsteps of modern Japan’s diplomacy […]
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A Rebuttal to President Moon’s Claims on Wartime Korean Workers in Japan
South Korean President Moon Jae In, in his New Year press conference on January 10, made a remark that […]
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INTERVIEW | Harvard Professor Mark Ramseyer Asks, ‘What’s Gotten Into the Korean Judiciary?’
Mark Ramseyer, Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, is one of the world’s foremost authorities […]
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Uemura, It’s Pointless to Pursue Your ‘Comfort Women’ Defamation Case
Former Asahi Shimbun newspaper reporter Takashi Uemura said at The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) that he regrets […]
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Koreans in Wartime Japan: Don’t Confuse Illegal Immigrants with Recruited Workers
(Second in a 3-Part Series) Part 1: The Reality of the Mobilization of Koreans During World War […]
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The Reality of the Mobilization of Koreans During World War II – An Analysis Based on Statistics and Written Records
(First of a 3-Part Series) In 1965, Japan and South Korea normalized their diplomatic relations. Japan paid South Korea $ […]
Probing Deeper into the BTS T-Shirt Controversy
The Korean media seems to think the issue has been settled when the production company handling the […]
Who is the Revisionist? Not the Journalist Who Called ‘Comfort Women’ Reports ‘Fabrication’
“I am not a revisionist,” Yoshiko Sakurai said calmly, despite the sudden rise in tension in the […]
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EDITORIAL | Dissolving ‘Comfort Women’ Foundation, South Korea Puts Ties With Japan at Risk
The Sankei Shimbun Trampling on a key bilateral accord, the South Korean government announced on November […]
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BTS T-shirt Controversy Shows Korea Needs to Study History
The recent controversy over a T-shirt linking the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki to Korean liberation from Japanese […]