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...
The critics’ aim is to intimidate public intellectuals through Nazi-like mob-attack tactics.
Criminal charges are filed against a sociology professor for his class discussion about the Japanese colonial period and its effect on South Korea’s development.
In the U.S., the Confucius Institutes kept the terms of agreement with partner universities hidden. Teachers had to pledge to protect Chinese national interests.
“Is it sound,” asks Diet member Haruko Arimura, that “a cultural center of a country ruled exclusively by the Communist Party” be strategically placed in 14...
Payment terms were better for wartime comfort women than for prewar prostitutes … We should also consider that the American and German military ran comfort stations...
The raison d'etre of the Science Council of Japan has become a red-hot issue. A law to create the SCJ was enacted in 1948....
(Updated October 16, 2020) The Asahi Shimbun newspaper and other Japanese media have criticized the Suga administration’s refusal to appoint six of 105 candidates recommended...
On July 2, South Korean National Assemblyman Song Young Gil, who chairs the assembly’s Foreign Policy and Unification Committee, held a press conference to announce...
During the 1990s, iron spikes caused a surprising increase of anti-Japanese sentiment among the South Korean people. These spikes were accidentally discovered on top of...
Approximately 300 articles in the Chinese studies journal China Quarterly, which the Cambridge University Press publishes in Britain, were made temporarily unavailable in China. ...
In early June, author Naoki Hyakuta, 61, was scheduled to speak at Hitotsubashi University during the two-day “Kodaira Festival.” University officials, however, cancelled his lecture,...