Chen Shui-bian, president of Taiwan from 2000 to 2008, observes that China has, in various ways, been interfering in the presidential election in Taiwan, scheduled...
According to Vladimir Lenin, “There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen.” As Japan moves into the second year of the Reiwa...
Japanese TV has occasionally tried portraying international marriage. One recent example is NHK’s popular morning drama Massan, inspired by the lives of whiskey maker...
What were the words and topics that Japanese couldn’t get enough of in 2019? What were the buzzwords on everyone’s lips? For this five-part...
Kinomiya Shrine in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, is quite a sight at this time of year. The Shinto priestesses, already in their striking white and...
Despite the 1965 Agreement and payments to mobilized laborers, anti-Japan activists, including Japanese lawyers and extremist labor union members, have traveled to South Korea since the...
In their 1965 treaty, claims settlement agreement and restoration of diplomatic relations, South Korea called for all compensation from Japan to wartime laborers, to be paid...
The stories told by these statistics reveal the reality of wartime laborer, which differs dramatically from the claims of capture and forced labor, or slave labor,...
What were the words and topics that Japanese couldn’t get enough of in 2019? What were the buzzwords on everyone’s lips? For this five-part...
The foundation of Japan-South Korea relations was shaken by the South Korean Supreme Court’s ruling on wartime laborers in Japan. An explanation of the key terms...
Remarks made by South Korean President Moon Jae In during a TV appearance in November concerning the theory of “South Korea as the bulwark of...
The liquidation of assets of the Japanese companies is precisely a consequence that the 1965 Treaty and Agreement intended to prevent.