counterpunch December 31, 2015 by K.J. Noh Diplomatic Collusion On December 28th, 2015, the foreign ministers of Japan and Korea, suddenly and hastily announced a “resolution” to the “comfort women” issue, women trafficked and exploited as sexual slaves by the …
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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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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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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 …
Learning from past best way to move forward (The Japan Times) Read more »
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 …
The Wall Street Journal ‘Scholars Aligned Behind Historical Fact’ of Forced Prostitution, McGraw-Hill Education Says By Alexander Martin Updated Jan. 15, 2015 5:44 a.m. ET TOKYO—A major U.S. publishing company rejected a request by the Japanese government to change passages …
U.S. Publisher Rebuffs Japan on ‘Comfort Women’ Revision (The Wall Street Journal) Read more »