Nearly unchanged approval ratings after the Cabinet reshuffle leave PM Kishida searching for the optimal timing for dissolution and lower house elections.
Scholars and activists from Japan and South Korea held a joint symposium to review the evidence and expose falsehoods spread globally about the comfort women.
While American elites grandstand about the comfort women, free and open academic inquiry on East Asian history elsewhere is uncovering the uncomfortable truths.
It's great to see the Self-Defense Force joining a major multilateral exercise but this training is needed where the trouble is coming, in and around Japan.
Educators rely on McGraw Hill. So why is it still publishing textbooks with WWII history based on refuted claims by authors who won't reveal their sources?
Few historical subjects have encountered such resistance to academic inquiry and free speech as the comfort women issue. As we report, that is finally changing.
Despite the serious risks associated with technology leaks, Japanese newspapers showed varying levels of urgency in their coverage of the AIST incident.
There are many reasons women, including the comfort women, enter prostitution. Regardless of the reason, when it comes to the sex business, coercion is a given.
What does this law mean, and what are the implications of the LGBTQ legislation in Japan? Does it have a future? Take a look with us.
Experts and former miners have found discrepancies in alleged footage of Gunkanjima, used by some South Korean media to back wartime forced labor claims.
While Pyongyang foments rancor in the comfort women issue, "The path to friendship between Japan and South Korea lies in the facts" ーProfessor Tsutomu Nishioka.
The Japanese Communist Party betrayed its dictatorial tendencies when it expelled an official who called for reforms. Who would want to see them in power?