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A Piece of Advice to the Media on Their Coverage of the Coronavirus in Japan
“Did any newspapers write an editorial saying we need to come together and overcome this crisis?” This is […]
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[Mythbusters] ‘Comfort Women’: The Chilling Effect of Letting the Courts Settle Historical Issues
In 1991, Takashi Uemura wrote an article based on a recording that was made by the first of the […]
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Yoshiko Sakurai Keeps Leading the Way on Free Speech in Japan
Free speech is rapidly becoming a vanishing commodity worldwide. Political correctness, pandemic fake news, social
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Ignoring Facts, U.S. Newspapers Repeatedly Misreport on Japan, Comfort Women
An article published in the January 30, 2019, edition of The New York Times on the comfort women controversy […
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Uemura, It’s Pointless to Pursue Your ‘Comfort Women’ Defamation Case
Former Asahi Shimbun newspaper reporter Takashi Uemura said at The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) that h
Who is the Revisionist? Not the Journalist Who Called ‘Comfort Women’ Reports ‘Fabrication’
“I am not a revisionist,” Yoshiko Sakurai said calmly, despite the sudden rise in tension in the […]
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Koshien Players as ‘Japanese Gods’: Why We’re Crazy About High School Baseball
Why is high school baseball so popular in Japan? Why does the nation stop to watch, […]
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[BOOK REVIEW] ‘Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone’ by Ikuhiko Hata
By June Teufel Dreyer Perhaps no issue in the history of post-World War II Japanese relations […]
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Asahi Shimbun Blocks Access to Articles Retracting Its ‘Comfort Women’ Stories
By The Sankei Shimbun Claiming “technical errors,” The Asahi Shimbun has made inaccessible two articles in [&hel
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PERSPECTIVES | Japanese Newspaper Editorials on the Aum Cult Incident
By Satoshi Sekoguchi Seven of the 13 former leaders of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult were […]
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[STATEMENT] Why Asahi Shimbun Won’t Change How It Describes Comfort Women
On July 6, a voluntary group intent on ending the bias in reporting on the issue of […]
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Asahi Shimbun Rejects Call to Temper Its Language on Comfort Women
On July 24, a voluntary group intent on ending the bias in reporting on the issue of wartime comfort […]