The Japanese comfort women program has become a dominant symbol of an era encompassing the Asia-Pacific War. Koreans have aggressively highlighted the issue by having...
The international community now sits at the crossroads in the face of China’s heightening of tensions with the United States as it pursues hegemony in the...
Bookmark is a JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to a...
On July 2, South Korean National Assemblyman Song Young Gil, who chairs the assembly’s Foreign Policy and Unification Committee, held a press conference to announce...
There is a new book out with original source information on Korean comfort women. American Soldiers Witnessed Korean Comfort Women...
In South Korea, former comfort woman Lee Yong Soo has harshly criticized Yoon Mee Hyang, a former leader of a powerful comfort women support group,...
Until countries went into various levels of lockdown, a film dealing with the comfort women issue was being screened in North America and Europe. Entitled...
South Korean films are popular around the world. But while in the film world a South Korean film called Parasite has made headlines, in the world...
Over the last few days, a feud has surfaced between former comfort women and their core support group called the "Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance...
A feature article reporting on sexual violence against women perpetrated by Korean soldiers during the Vietnam War, released by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)...
I have written on this subject time and again, but the phrase “Military Comfort Women” was coined long after the war ended. This terminology has...
The Japan Times, an English language daily in Japan, announced in a half-page statement on March 20 that it would revise its description of...