Comfort Women of the Empire by Park Yuha has been widely praised as a valiant attempt to narrow the gap in perceptions between Japan and South...
Japan could either legalize or enact stricter measures against marijuana. There is a world of difference between these two, so it must tread carefully.
A February 19 press conference underscored the recent journalistic and academic silence on the comfort women issue. We consider what has changed.
Emphasizing the stablemaster's responsibility for his wrestler's behavior, the JSA cut his pay and demoted the winningest yokozuna in sumo history by two ranks.
The canceled book "Irreversible Damage" warns against the transgender "trend" and the dangers of encouraging minors to make premature, life-altering decisions.
Gunma prefecture removed the monument after the association broke its promise and defied the Supreme Court order to remove the politicized statue from the park.
South Korean scholars Lew Seok-Choon and Lee Wooyoun discuss shifting perceptions on the comfort women issue and the court case against Professor Lew.
Recent articles have blamed the government for near-sighted students and various social problems but that's the wrong place to go for solutions says the author.
While "Destiny" is a fascinating account of the "Yodogo exiles," who traveled to North Korea on a hijacked plane in 1970, it fails to condemn their...
Oizumi Town wants to welcome foreigners and adopt English as a common language, but its vision leaves behind the very Japanese taxpayers who built the town.
Finding Japanese history books of the 1990s trapped in debunked postwar theories, author and historian Nobukatsu Fujioka vowed to see the changes through.
Longtime scholar of Korean Peninsula issues, Professor Tsutomu Nishioka analyzes the challenges and progress in relations between Japan and South Korea.