“Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday praised the former Japanese government official who issued a landmark apology over the wartime sexual slavery of Asian women, hailing his “bravery” in facing history. Li greeted a trade delegation led by Yohei Kono, who…
The Korean government will “give teaching materials on sexual slavery instigated by the Japanese military during World War II to elementary, middle and high school teachers this month. Theses materials will help students better understand the sex slavery issue and…
“South Korea on Tuesday denounced Japan’s yearly diplomatic paper as “history-regressive,” as the Japanese government repeated its territorial claims to Dokdo islets, called Takeshima in Japan. “Today, it (the Japanese government) repeated its history- regressive action by presenting to the…
“Manabisha, a Tokyo-based publishing company, will publish a middle-school history textbook for the first time that will include a passage about so-called comfort women, something that no other textbook currently in use mentions. The book was approved by the education…
“The head of a history think-tank has criticized Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for referring to women forced by his nation’s military into sexual slavery before and during World War II as victims of “human trafficking.” … “It is absolutely unacceptable…
“The person who invited the three Vietnamese to come to South Korea was Han Hong-gu, the permanent director on the board at the Peace Museum.“Even if only to create an opportunity for Japan to acknowledge and apologize for its wrongdoing,…
“Making pressed-flower petal artwork is one technique used in psychological therapy for wartime victims like Shim. In 2011, when 29-year-old Yoon Hong-jo first saw these creations, he was immediately moved by their beauty.”
“Nancy Pelosi called for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to apologize for the Japanese military’s coercion of young Korean and other Asian women into sexual slavery during World War II.”
“Prime Minister Shinzo Abe confirmed that he described “comfort women,” mainly Asian females who were forced to provide sex to wartime Japanese soldiers, as victims of “human trafficking” in a recent interview with The Washington Post. The remarks provoked a backlash…