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...
Many in South Korea blame the strain in relations between Korea and Japan on Japan’s alleged lack of contrition for its past. The current...
On March 3, the High Court gave me a perfect victory in a libel case brought against me by former Asahi Shimbun newspaper reporter Takashi...
In 1991, Takashi Uemura wrote an article based on a recording that was made by the first of the “comfort women” to go public, Kim...
Since its publication in November 2019, the book Han-nichi shuzoku shugi: Nikkan kiki no kongen or Anti-Japan Tribalism: The Root of the Japan-Korea Crisis (Bungeishunjū) has...
The comfort women issue has generated a lot of heat. There is endless argument about how many women worked as comfort women, whether they were sex...
Professor Lew Seok-choon of Yonsei University in Seoul is under criminal investigation for libel and other charges for his lecture last September 19 where he said...
Second of Two Parts (Part 1: INTERVIEW | Gordon Chang: U.S., China Have Reached Tipping Point) The respected American scholar on Asian affairs Gordon...
PARIS —The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has abandoned its goal of reforming the process for inscribing entries into its Memory of...
There has been a troubling lack of understanding of the comfort women issue. Indeed, given the refusal in many quarters to see the comfort women...
Should art, which promotes hate under the guise of “freedom of expression,” be condoned? Certainly not, in the opinion of the Sankei Shimbun. ...
On July 3, 2019, Japan halted the unrestricted export to South Korea of three high-tech materials essential for the production of semiconductors and display...