A Korean publisher claims it’s permissible to use misleading illustrations of Gunkanjima “for fiction,” but presents the book as if it’s a true story to sway...
The Dream of a Leather Wallet is JAPAN Forward’s first 2021 Online Rakugo release, as we continue the series of online Rakugo that has run since...
Fukushima is slowly springing back into life as local residents return and the government pour money into the local towns bringing joy to the country and...
The plot centers around 50 employees at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant who were among hundreds who risked their lives to prevent a complete meltdown...
This kicks off Kujira Town's interview series with whale enthusiasts and experts. Read on and have a whale of a time as they share their unrivaled...
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...
Forced recruitment? Sexual slavery? The relationship between comfort women and comfort station owners in the Japanese colonial period must be viewed as “indentured servitude contracts.” 1st...
The row about Professor J. Mark Ramseyer’s work on comfort women is about basic academic standards, not freedom of expression, say Professors Tessa Morris Suzuki and...
I respect the comfort women immensely, actually. They were strong, canny, resilient, even fiercely independent. And they weren’t a monolith. Every woman had her own story.
Sheila Cliffe traces the routes of Japan’s silk road and its path to becoming an industrialized nation.
Approximately 1 in 7 houses are empty now on average around the country. Learning about the problem is the first step to revitalizing the communities where...
‘Takeshima Day’ was designated 16 years ago on February 22, 2005 and there is much documentary evidence over hundreds of years, so why is Takeshima still...