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...
China’s unilateral abrogation of the status quo and violation of human rights in Hong Kong and Xinjiang are factors behind Japan and Germany’s energized relationship.
If it were to become clear to everyone that there is no evidence of “forceful taking away,” going forward we might be able to face history...
Following this court decision and the “final and irreversible agreement” between Japan and South Korea in 2015, this issue is now one for South Korea to...
While the Tokyo Supreme Court has upheld Uemura’s critics, the question remains why he lied in his 1991 articles, and how Japan can repair their continuing...
Emotions can change along with political correctness, but the records of the time and first statements of women and other witnesses help keep the world in...
Parents’ agreement to what their daughters were being recruited for was indisputably the “contracts.” Critics of Harvard Professor J. Mark Ramseyer don’t seem to be aware...
Here is a case study that explores how contract negotiations were carried out and what was covered in the agreements with the parents and women who...
Take a look at the popular “comfort women” theory, and the contrary evidence which, despite attacks on academic freedom, has come forth through research in South...
Payment terms were better for wartime comfort women than for prewar prostitutes … We should also consider that the American and German military ran comfort stations...
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