Article by Wakamiya Yoshibumi, former chief editor of the Asahi Shimbun: tri-national debate exercise within context of “Campus Asia” program at Dongseo University, Busan, fosters understanding of counterpart perspectives over key international relations issues between China, Korea and Japan.
Editorial from Taiwan-based branch of China Times: “Japan’s attempts to downplay or even deny its atrocities during World War II is the biggest obstacle in China-Japan relations. In this regard, the responsibility of improving bilateral ties between the two countries…
Article by SF teacher and writer Nicolas Gattig: “We mustn’t stand for actual denial, but should let others repent in the best way they can. This means graceful engagement — and humility about our own wrongs.”
Article from Kyodo News International: Japanese Foreign Ministry asks New York-based publisher McGraw-Hill Companies to change description of wartime comfort women in one of their world history textbooks
Article on prospect of trilateral foreign ministerial summit: “Japanese and South Korean leaders have proposed holding a trilateral summit with their Chinese counterpart for the first time since 2012, their deputies said…”
Article from People’s Daily, November 13, 2014: China adopts middle school textbooks devoted on Nanjing Massacre one month ahead of national day of remembrance
Article from Japan Times, November 11, 2014: “Japan maintains there is no territorial row over Senkakus”
Article from the New York Times, October 12, 2014: By Michael Fitzpatrick TOKYO — Japan’s simultaneous embrace of nationalism and cosmopolitanism is generating ambiguous signals from its education policy makers. They are rewriting textbooks along what they call “patriotic” lines, alienating…
Article from Asahi Shimbun, October 02, 2014 : Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stated he has no plans to issue a new statement to replace a landmark 1993 apology to former “comfort women” forced to provide sex to wartime Japanese soldiers. “I am…