The latest ruling must therefore be criticized not only on its violation of the principle of international law on sovereign immunity, but on the basis of...
Japan and South Korea signed an agreement in 2015, resolving the comfort women issue ‘finally and irreversibly.’ The Moon Jae In administration has been trampling all...
As academics, we are used to dealing with exaggerations. We are not used to finding that the story is pure fiction. But that is the nature...
It’s a story that was covered lightly by Japanese newspapers, including the Sankei Shimbun. But the Supreme Court’s recent decision to dismiss the appeal...
The Japanese comfort women program has become a dominant symbol of an era encompassing the Asia-Pacific War. Koreans have aggressively highlighted the issue by having...
The international community now sits at the crossroads in the face of China’s heightening of tensions with the United States as it pursues hegemony in the...
There is a new book out with original source information on Korean comfort women. American Soldiers Witnessed Korean Comfort Women...
In South Korea, former comfort woman Lee Yong Soo has harshly criticized Yoon Mee Hyang, a former leader of a powerful comfort women support group,...
Until countries went into various levels of lockdown, a film dealing with the comfort women issue was being screened in North America and Europe. Entitled...
South Korean films are popular around the world. But while in the film world a South Korean film called Parasite has made headlines, in the world...
Over the last few days, a feud has surfaced between former comfort women and their core support group called the "Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance...
I have written on this subject time and again, but the phrase “Military Comfort Women” was coined long after the war ended. This terminology has...