Comfort Women of the Empire by Park Yuha has been widely praised as a valiant attempt to narrow the gap in perceptions between Japan and South...
A Hong Kong court is sending a woman to jail for her pro-democracy messages she posted on social media in Japanese while in Japan. This shouldn't...
South Korea's Supreme Court tells a lower court to acquit Park Yuha over her comfort women book. In another ruling, it orders the return of stolen...
Some people don't want you to know the inconvenient truth. And this is what happens when they are in power" — film director on the Myanmar...
“My people and the international community…are being deceived by such malicious propaganda.” — Kim Byungheon, advocate against comfort women fraud.
Putin and Xi pick International Democracy Day for a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, as the UN raises an alarm on growing threats to democracy.
To feminists in Japan, the use of pretty girl characters in promotional materials is sexual exploitation. To creators, taking down their work is suppression of freedom...
Criminal charges are filed against a sociology professor for his class discussion about the Japanese colonial period and its effect on South Korea’s development.
The new paper’s credo was “to become a voice for the people of Hong Kong who support liberty and democracy.” The owner, the editor and many...
As the Chinese Communist Party approaches its centennial on July 23, 2021, the clash between its repressive values and practices and the freedoms enshrined in the...
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen instructed the defense and foreign ministers and other senior administration officials at a meeting of the National Security Council on October...
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...