Books
Naoki Hyakuta’s Bestseller Tells Us the Real Reason Japan Should Apologize to South Korea
Japanese author Naoki Hyakuta has just published a new book, Now is the Time to Apologize to […]
Politics & Security
U.S., South Korea Growing Apart in Policy Over DPRK Policy
Foreign policy analyst and former American diplomat Evans Revere was in Tokyo on Friday February 15, where [&helli
Special Reports
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 […
Special Reports
A Rebuttal to President Moon’s Claims on Wartime Korean Workers in Japan
South Korean President Moon Jae In, in his New Year press conference on January 10, made a remark that […]
Special Reports
INTERVIEW | Harvard Professor Mark Ramseyer Asks, ‘What’s Gotten Into the Korean Judiciary?’
Mark Ramseyer, Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, is one of the world’s foremost au
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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
Politics & Security
Japan-South Korea Tensions Grow Over Radar Lock-on Incident
Relations between Japan and South Korea have deteriorated further in the wake of an incident involving a Japan Maritim
EDITORIAL | Japan Must Demand U.N. Enforced Disappearances Committee’s Retraction of Accusations
Another unreasonable report bearing the United Nations (U.N.) name has surfaced. On November 19, the U.N. [&hell
Politics & Security
How China Pressures Japan to Stay Pacifist
The long duration of Japan’s pacifism in the face of increasing belligerence from China is not only […]
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 […]
Special Reports
EDITORIAL | Dissolving ‘Comfort Women’ Foundation, South Korea Puts Ties With Japan at Risk
The Sankei Shimbun Trampling on a key bilateral accord, the South Korean government announced on November [&hell
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How Japan Should Respond to BTS’ Non-Apology Over the A-Bomb T-Shirt
In pictures that started appearing online in October, Jimin of the Korean boy band BTS is shown […]