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Tag Archive: Forced labor

Special Reports

INTERVIEW | Ex-Abe Advisor Koko Kato: Research Exposes Korea’s Lies About Workers in Japan

August 29, 2019 11:45 pm

Shimpei Okuhara Leave your thoughts

     Former Abe Cabinet advisor Koko Kato left the Prime Minister’s Office and took on new duties as the […]

Special Reports

Japan-Korea Relations Should Overcome History

August 22, 2019 7:31 am

Robert D. Eldridge, PhD 1 Comment

  I first began thinking about writing this commentary six months ago. In the interim, however, Japan-South Korean relat

Politics & Security

Kono: Japan Export Controls for Security Purposes, Not Countermeasures Against South Korea 

July 29, 2019 10:55 pm

JAPAN Forward 3 Comments

  On July 20, Foreign Minister KONO Taro posted on his private blog an article on “Japan-South Korea Relations,” where [

Special Reports

When Some Korean Intellectuals Exaggerate, Distort History with Japan

July 23, 2019 11:36 pm

Takahiro Namura 1 Comment

  There was “no racial discrimination concerning wages” against conscripted workers from the Korean peninsula during the

Special Reports

Geneva Symposium Exposes the Myth of Gunkanjima as ‘Hell Island’

July 11, 2019 12:37 am

Mina Mitsui 1 Comment

    A symposium held in Geneva Switzerland on July 2 sought to set the record straight concerning allegations by South [

‘Forced Labor’ Photo Disseminated by South Korean Media is Actually Postwar Photo of a Japanese Coal Miner

May 11, 2019 10:30 pm

Shimpei Okuhara 2 Comments

  South Korean media have been promoting a photograph of a man working in a coal mine, alleging it shows […]

Probing Deeper into the BTS T-Shirt Controversy

December 8, 2018 11:10 am

Katsuhiro Kuroda, Sankei Shimbun Leave your thoughts

      The Korean media seems to think the issue has been settled when the production company handling the […]

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History Wars:  Japanese Taxpayers Funding Anti-Japan Activists

January 26, 2018 10:56 pm

Sankei Shimbun Leave your thoughts

Aerial view of Hashima (or Gunkanjima), the UNESCO’s cultural heritage of the world   The KAKEN database is a record [&h

Special Reports

Forced Labor Propaganda: When You’ve Got No Historical Facts, Use Fake Graffiti

August 4, 2017 12:10 am

Sankei Shimbun 1 Comment

  (Second of 3 Parts)   Part 1: Lie Debunked: Historical Data Show No Forced Labor for Koreans     […]

Special Reports

Lie Debunked: Historical Data Show No Forced Labor for Koreans

August 2, 2017 10:37 pm

Sankei Shimbun Leave your thoughts

  (First of 3 Parts)     There is a widely accepted view in Korea that, under Japanese rule, mobilized […]

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