Take a look at the popular “comfort women” theory, and the contrary evidence which, despite attacks on academic freedom, has come forth through research in South...
While the number of cases has dropped significantly, Prime Minister Suga emphasized it doesn’t mean the end of COVID-19, or the restrictions needed to contain it.
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Forced recruitment? Sexual slavery? The relationship between comfort women and comfort station owners in the Japanese colonial period must be viewed as “indentured servitude contracts.” 1st...