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 more...
By The Sankei Shimbun Claiming “technical errors,” The Asahi Shimbun has made inaccessible two articles in English from August 2014, it was...
By Satoshi Sekoguchi Seven of the 13 former leaders of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult were executed in Japan on July 6...
On July 6, a voluntary group intent on ending the bias in reporting on the issue of wartime comfort women met with The...
On July 24, a voluntary group intent on ending the bias in reporting on the issue of wartime comfort women announced that The Asahi Shimbun...
Miki Ohtaka In 1983, the late Seiji Yoshida, who gave the Asahi Shimbun and many other researchers and media outlets his false...
This piece was first published under the title "Seoul University professor denied the theory of comfort women as the sex slave" in Monthly Hanada Selection:...