The brutal drama Squid Game is a huge Netflix hit. Characters battle for their lives in a dysfunctional version of South Korea. The tensions revealed by...
Right premise, wrong approach: Ching returns to his theme of wanting to decenter the nation-state in East Asia and find a new solution to the “anti-Japanism”...
The claims of wartime workers were settled in the 1965 bilateral agreement between Tokyo and Seoul. The Daejeon District Court’s order to sell the seized assets...
Many Westerners have been led to believe one side of the story. They owe both nations and their people more objectivity.
Criminal charges are filed against a sociology professor for his class discussion about the Japanese colonial period and its effect on South Korea’s development.
The result of party elections in Japan is usually predictable. Find out why this one’s not.
Waseda University Professor Tetsuo Arima hopes his essays will start fair academic discussions and help restore the proper way of seeking the truth about our past.
Constitutional revision would mean waking up, when the Japanese put under a spell by the American Occupation still prefer to slumber in their defeat.
Harris should have attempted to understand the history of Japan’s wartime past without applying the easy filter of the DC-Tokyo establishment line.
Many South Koreans fail to comprehend why President Moon was ignored by Japan. The explanation is simple.
Would Japan be in a different place with China and South Korea had the Tokyo Trial addressed the responsibility of those with the authority to have...
America’s promise to protect Japan from communist aggression is being put to serious test. The men of the postwar have squandered all their tomorrows waiting for...