The Japan Times, an English language daily in Japan, announced in a half-page statement on March 20 that it would revise its description of...
In 1991, Takashi Uemura wrote an article based on a recording that was made by the first of the “comfort women” to go public, Kim...
The comfort women issue has generated a lot of heat. There is endless argument about how many women worked as comfort women, whether they were sex...
Professor Lew Seok-choon of Yonsei University in Seoul is under criminal investigation for libel and other charges for his lecture last September 19 where he said...
On June 15, five people who appeared in a documentary called “Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue” (Tofu Films) sued the director...
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...
Former Asahi Shimbun newspaper reporter Takashi Uemura said at The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) that he regrets he “won the debate” over his...
“I am not a revisionist,” Yoshiko Sakurai said calmly, despite the sudden rise in tension in the room. She was answering a...
The Sankei Shimbun Trampling on a key bilateral accord, the South Korean government announced on November 21 that it would dissolve a...
The 61-year-old sister city relationship between Osaka Japan and San Francisco California has been terminated. The city of Osaka took the decision...
By June Teufel Dreyer Perhaps no issue in the history of post-World War II Japanese relations with Korea and China has been more...
By The Sankei Shimbun Claiming “technical errors,” The Asahi Shimbun has made inaccessible two articles in English from August 2014, it was...