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...
(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...
As soon as Shinzo Abe announced on August 28 his intention to resign suddenly, many media outlets have carried out opinion polls to get a sense...
“Did any newspapers write an editorial saying we need to come together and overcome this crisis?” This is how journalist Yoshiko Sakurai questioned media...
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...
Free speech is rapidly becoming a vanishing commodity worldwide. Political correctness, pandemic fake news, social media “shadow bans,” and hidebound institutional biases at universities...
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...
Why is high school baseball so popular in Japan? Why does the nation stop to watch, transfixed, from morning till evening, on...
By June Teufel Dreyer Perhaps no issue in the history of post-World War II Japanese relations with Korea and China has been...
By The Sankei Shimbun Claiming “technical errors,” The Asahi Shimbun has made inaccessible two articles in English from August 2014, it was...
