Against a backdrop of calls for historical accuracy, the symposium stressed a nuanced understanding of the comfort women issue's sensitive historical legacies.
In an exclusive interview, Lee Young-hoon discusses South Korean perceptions, shifting views on comfort women and seeking Japanese-South Korean reconciliation.
In the 3rd annual International Comfort Women Symposium, scholars from the US join in debating the comfort women issue with experts from Japan and South Korea.
Dr Lee Wooyoun discusses the best seller "Anti-Japan Tribalism" highly acclaimed for its academic rigor, the reaction of Korean leftists, and the Korean public.
"We welcome the move to restore healthy relations between Japan and South Korea that were in a very dire place" since 2018, says FM Hayashi.
Predictions are that the core of this historical confrontation will shift as South Koreans take a fresh look at North Korea's role. Will Tokyo follow?
Hata provides an objective dissent on orthodox views of comfort women in Korea while also acknowledging the poverty that plagued many Chosun women victims.
The End Comfort Women Fraud group says the statue and textual inscription of the “Statue of Peace” run counter to the historical evidence and mislead viewers.
There are a growing number of researchers looking at original documents on the comfort women issue and coming to the same conclusion. They are not the...
Take a look at the popular “comfort women” theory, and the contrary evidence which, despite attacks on academic freedom, has come forth through research in South...
I respect the comfort women immensely, actually. They were strong, canny, resilient, even fiercely independent. And they weren’t a monolith. Every woman had her own story.
The feud has escalated between South Korean novelist Jo Jung-rae and a group of academics who refuted his anti-Japan work. Jo Jung-rae, one...
