A documentary about the terror of the 1995 sarin gas attack in Tokyo has been crafted into a masterful exploration...
The logical targets for South Korea’s ire should have been the U.S., China, and Russia, as they brought about the peninsula’s division. Several factors are at...
While the Tokyo Supreme Court has upheld Uemura’s critics, the question remains why he lied in his 1991 articles, and how Japan can repair their continuing...
Emotions can change along with political correctness, but the records of the time and first statements of women and other witnesses help keep the world in...
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...
Here is a case study that explores how contract negotiations were carried out and what was covered in the agreements with the parents and women who...
But the attraction is probably making the Chinese people recall the cultural scent of “good old China” that they have lost.
Japanese corporations should avoid advertising in the WaPo. The large fraction of its readers with hostile attitudes toward Japan and the Japanese is not likely to...
“I want to work as hard as I can so that as many people as possible know about this history” says 17-year old Aoi Mashimo, who...
Take a look at the popular “comfort women” theory, and the contrary evidence which, despite attacks on academic freedom, has come forth through research in South...
~~ Illustrations from a children’s picture book depicting young male Korean wartime laborers being forced to work in extremely poor environment on Nagasaki City’s Hashima coal...
Payment terms were better for wartime comfort women than for prewar prostitutes … We should also consider that the American and German military ran comfort stations...
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