March 5, 2015 – “EXO Fans Raise Money For Museum Honoring Japanese Occupation-Era Comfort Women”
Kpop group fans raise money to support the History Museum of Japanese Military Comfort Women, Kwangju-city, Kyonggi-province.
March 5, 2015 – “Japan, China to Discuss Security for First Time in Four Years” (WSJ)
“Japan and China will hold their first security talks in more than four years later this month (March 19), a sign of a further thaw in relations that have been badly strained in recent years due to disputes over maritime…
March 4, 2015 – “U.S. author recounts ‘lecture’ he got about ‘comfort women’ from uninvited Japanese guests” (Japan Times)
Interview of Professor Ziegler with JBC, Feb. 17, 2015: “Next thing I know, I’m sitting in my office just like you and I are sitting here today — the door’s open, I have office hours. I was eating lunch. In pops…
March 4, 2015 – “Chinese journalist keeps experiences of former ‘comfort women’ alive through films” (Asahi)
“Ban Zhongyi, a Chinese journalist living in Japan, still remembers the shock he felt when he first heard the testimonies of former Chinese “comfort women” at a rally in Tokyo in 1992.”
March 4, 2015 – “China launches Japanese, English versions of website on Senkakus” (Japan Times)
“Japan on Wednesday lodged a protest with China over the launch of English and Japanese versions of a Chinese government website asserting Beijing’s claim to the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
March 4, 2015 – “Heeding Abe’s call, Chinese tourists flock to Japan for luxury items” (Malay Mail)
“Thousand-dollar rice cookers and toilet seats that know when you enter the room. That’s what visitors to Japan from China have been buying at Laox Co., sending the Tokyo-based duty-free store chain to its first profit in 14 years and its…
March 4, 2015 – “U.S. says ‘comfort women’ issue was behind Lee’s 2012 isle visit” (Japan Times)
“The U.S. government believed the “comfort women” issue was behind South Korean President Lee Myung-bak’s August 2012 visit to islets at the heart of a territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea, a U.S. document revealed on Tuesday.”
March 5, 2015 – “Moscow condemns EU attempts to use Victory Day anniversary for attacks on Russia” (Focus News)
“Attempts to distort the truth about World War II are an insult to the memory of the victims of Nazism and millions of Soviet soldiers who died for the liberation of Europe, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich told a…
March 4, 2015 – Voices: “Stance on ‘comfort women’ undermines fight to end wartime sexual violence” (Japan Times)
Kayoko Kimura: “Why do so few people in Japan make the link between the wider issue of sexual violence in conflict and the comfort women?… As the 70th anniversary of the end of the war approaches, Japan needs to be reminded that…