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.
The brutal drama Squid Game is a huge Netflix hit. Characters battle for their lives in a dysfunctional version of South Korea. The tensions revealed by...
Right premise, wrong approach: Ching returns to his theme of wanting to decenter the nation-state in East Asia and find a new solution to the “anti-Japanism”...
A healthy debate is needed to set back on track what Asahi Shimbun ruined with its concocted report on comfort women in 1991.
Many Westerners have been led to believe one side of the story. They owe both nations and their people more objectivity.
The installation of the statue in Germany is not only incompatible with South Korea’s 2015 and earlier agreements with Japan, but it is an unduly one-sided,...
Waseda University Professor Tetsuo Arima hopes his essays will start fair academic discussions and help restore the proper way of seeking the truth about our past.
Would Japan be in a different place with China and South Korea had the Tokyo Trial addressed the responsibility of those with the authority to have...
Moon Jae In’s administration wants to leave a legacy of maintaining a hard line on Japan, and thus will probably avoid resolution of any major political...
The court appears to recognize that public awareness of the facts about wartime Korean workers in Japan has become widespread in South Korea, even though opinion...
Japan still cannot celebrate without reservation a recent favorable ruling by a Seoul court. President Moon Jae In’s attitude is one reason South Korea has a...
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