The Chronicles of Lord Asanaro (Red Circle, 2020) is an unusual and rewarding story that lingers in the consciousness longer than more overtly dramatic works....
When I requested a review copy of this book, I expected something rather similar to Japan As Number One — relatively short, journalistic, and...
(Last of 2 Parts) Part 1: INTERVIEW | Hanjin Lew: Human Rights, Intelligence Sharing Will Help Repair U.S.-ROK-Japan Alliance When South Korea...
Credit: 우리공화당LIVE (First of 2 Parts) The relationship between Japan and South Korea is often said to be at its lowest ebb in decades. From...
The comfort women issue has generated a lot of heat. There is endless argument about how many women worked as comfort women, whether they were sex...
The December 15 opening ceremony for the New National Stadium in Tokyo inaugurated what is to be a major venue for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and...
The author looks at studies of the political affiliations of American university professors to understand their academic bias.
According to Vladimir Lenin, “There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen.” As Japan moves into the second year of the Reiwa...
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...