Monthly Archives: December 2015

China Shows Skepticism on Japan’s ‘Comfort Women’ Apology (The Wall Street Journal)

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Beijing reiterates call for Tokyo to make amends for wartime transgressions after Japan-South Korea deal By Chun Han Wong Updated Dec. 29, 2015 10:44 a.m. ET BEIJING—South Korea and Japan’s move to resolve a decades-old dispute

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S. Korean and Japanese Leaders Feel Backlash From ‘Comfort Women’ Deal (New York Times)

New York Times By JONATHAN SOBLE and CHOE SANG-HUNDEC. 29, 2015 TOKYO — The leaders of South Korea and Japan faced a barrage of criticism on Tuesday from nationalists upset about a landmark deal aimed at resolving a dispute over

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Learning from past best way to move forward (The Japan Times)

The Japan Times Opinion December 26, 2015 Criticism is always fair game. When it borders on make-believe it is worth correcting. In his Dec. 20 letter to the editor regarding the article “50 Japanese scholars fire back in McGraw-Hill sex

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Fifty Japanese scholars attack McGraw-Hill, US academics on ‘Comfort Women’ issue (Asiaone)

asiaone December 12, 2015 http://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/fifty-japanese-scholars-attack-mcgraw-hill-us-academics-comfort-women-issue?movideo_m=1305875 In the latest salvo in an ongoing battle over history, a group of 50 Japanese scholars has chided the author of a US textbook and his backers in academia for “factual errors” that the group

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