Above: Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on October 16, 2020, in an exclusive interview with The Sankei Shimbun and JAPAN Forward Bookmark is a JAPAN...
When I requested a review copy of this book, I expected something rather similar to Japan As Number One — relatively short, journalistic, and...
Should art, which promotes hate under the guise of “freedom of expression,” be condoned? Certainly not, in the opinion of the Sankei Shimbun. ...
On July 3, 2019, Japan halted the unrestricted export to South Korea of three high-tech materials essential for the production of semiconductors and display...
An article published in the January 30, 2019, edition of The New York Times on the comfort women controversy currently straining Japan-South Korea relations quickly...
Most of those put on our ship were Japanese from Latin American countries. Among the families from the U.S., however, there were over 100 minors who...
The following letter was submitted to JAPAN Forward by Japanese academics with a request to help them have their views heard. It concerns a new...
By Archie Miyamoto, Lt. Colonel, U.S Army, Retired The comfort women statues that continue to proliferate in the United States, Europe, Asia,...
Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura has vowed to “dissolve” Osaka’s sister city relationship with San Francisco in the United States “before the year’s out.” The reason has...
More than 100 scholars of Japan have signed as of October 20 a statement to oppose a joint application filed by various groups from eight...
The city buses in Seoul started carrying plastic replicas of the “comfort women” statues On August 15th, as part of the National Liberation Day ceremony...
(Second of 4 parts) Part 1: Comfort Woman Statues: A War Against the US, Not Japan Believe it or not, American Southerners find...