The End Comfort Women Fraud group says the statue and textual inscription of the “Statue of Peace” run counter to the historical evidence and mislead viewers.
In his latest expedition across the Pacific Ocean, the 83-year-old’s achievement resonated with people, leaving them in awe ― and inspired.
Bookmark is a new JAPAN Forward feature that gives you long reads for the weekend. Each edition introduces one overarching thought that branches off to...
The 61-year-old sister city relationship between Osaka Japan and San Francisco California has been terminated. The city of Osaka took the decision...
On November 30, 2017, Hong Kong-born Jenny Kwan, a member of the Canadian House of Commons from the western province of British Columbia, took to...
San Francisco’s Mayor Edwin Mah Lee has accepted the donation of a comfort women statue erected in the city by Chinese-American community groups. The...
The content of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) working group’s interim report has become extraordinarily tainted due to the unreasonable inclusion of submissions from...
Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura has vowed to “dissolve” Osaka’s sister city relationship with San Francisco in the United States “before the year’s out.” The reason has...
Just three days after the city council of San Francisco in California, the United States, allowed a statue depicting South Korean war comfort women be...
“If the city of San Francisco [in California] accepts the donated comfort women statue, then the sister city agreement will be dissolved.” Osaka Mayor Hirofumi...
