South Korea has had tortured relations with Pyongyang and Tokyo. The author discusses them and offers suggestions on some complex factors behind the problem.
The comfort women myth has already deeply wounded Japan-South Korea relations. Is the latest breakthrough enough to promote a resolution in this history war?
"Now, anyone who spends thirty minutes skimming the internet will discover that there's a real debate" about the comfort women issue ー Dr J Mark Ramseyer.
Facts and painstaking scholarly work helped Professor J Mark Ramseyer overcome ignorance and hate to overturn a popular fiction on the comfort women debate.
Predictions are that the core of this historical confrontation will shift as South Koreans take a fresh look at North Korea's role. Will Tokyo follow?
Relive the stories of 2022 that our readers were most interested in, including the historical debate coming in at Number 2: Comfort Women.
Author and historian Kim says history distortion stokes anti-Japan sentiment and discusses how South Korea and Japan can move beyond the "history" problem.
The quest for historical truth requires healthy debates, not politicizing history and canceling others to silence. True historians do not politicize the past.
"Professor Pałasz-Rutkowska’s two-volume work on Polish-Japanese relations is a detailed account of more than 110 years of this friendship” ーYoshiko Sakurai
The End Comfort Women Fraud group says the statue and textual inscription of the “Statue of Peace” run counter to the historical evidence and mislead viewers.
JINF’s 2021 Kokkiken award goes to American author Toshi Yoshihara, with special Kokkiken Awards to two South Korean researchers, for helping Japan and the world better...
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...