A February 19 press conference underscored the recent journalistic and academic silence on the comfort women issue. We consider what has changed.
The author explains why and how brothel owners used contracts to secure the services of comfort women in the prewar and wartime era of Japanese history.
In an interview, Nobukatsu Fujioka and Yumiko Yamamoto discuss J Mark Ramseyer’s new book on comfort women, recently translated into Japanese and Korean.
Finding Japanese history books of the 1990s trapped in debunked postwar theories, author and historian Nobukatsu Fujioka vowed to see the changes through.
Until countries went into various levels of lockdown, a film dealing with the comfort women issue was being screened in North America and Europe. Entitled...