Check out the best of 2023 through the 25 most-read articles on JAPAN Forward, continuing with 20-16. Did your favorites make the list?
Check out the best of 2023 through the 25 most-read articles on JAPAN Forward, starting with 25 - 21. Did your favorites make the list?
The author analyzes how poverty was at the root of the comfort women issue and explains why resolving the diplomatic issue requires acknowledging this fact.
South Korea's government needs to investigate the truth as chroniclers continue irresponsibly perpetuating the comfort women issue by reciting the folklore.
The court ignored the facts, previous settlements, and international law as it sought to bypass the Seoul government to punish Japan in the comfort women saga.
Talks In Busan were amicable. Still, their success will be measured by whether the foreign ministers of Japan, China, and South Korea can resolve sticky issues.
The controversial South Korean court decision on comfort women has angered Japan's Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, who is on her way to Busan this weekend.
If those who promote the comfort women issue want the statues to symbolize peace, then remove the divisive inscriptions and let them be universal symbols.
Kassel University removed its Statue of Peace but Berlin's Mitte District is indecisive. Meanwhile, it misrepresents the historical facts of the comfort women.
"Today's ruling is about whether freedom of thought is guaranteed in South Korea," said Park Yuha, adding that her fight is not with the living comfort...
Finding Japanese history books of the 1990s trapped in debunked postwar theories, author and historian Nobukatsu Fujioka vowed to see the changes through.
Longtime scholar of Korean Peninsula issues, Professor Tsutomu Nishioka analyzes the challenges and progress in relations between Japan and South Korea.