March 27, 2015 – “Ruling Supports Glendale in Dispute Over Monument” (Rafu Shimpo)
“A judge has issued a tentative ruling in support of the City of Glendale, which has been sued for placing a “comfort women” monument in Central Park.”
March 26, 2015 – “U.S. has ‘solid’ understanding of Seoul-Tokyo shared history: Korean envoy” (Yonhap News)
“The U.S. government, Congress and academics have a very “solid” consensus that Japan should stop its attempts to gloss over its wartime wrongdoings, namely the issue of sex slavery, the South Korean ambassador to Washington said Thursday.”
March 24, 2015 – “From Cho Junglae, a Film on Japanese Wartime Brothels” (NYTimes)
“Now, after more than a decade in limbo, the film, “Spirits’ Homecoming,” will continue filming next month. Mr. Cho, who has made two feature films and about 200 commercials, documentaries, music videos and short films, plans to release it by…
March 20, 2015 – “Seoul house becomes museum highlighting the plight of second world war ‘comfort women'” (Dezeen)
“Corralled in an empty room, visitors observe a moment of silence before being guided through four areas with the themes memory, remembrance, healing and recording.”
March 20, 2015 – “Maryland Senate adopts ‘comfort women’ resolution” (China Daily)
“A Maryland state Senate joint resolution honoring the “comfort women” in Asia and Pacific Islands during World War II was adopted on Tuesday. The Senate Joint Resolution 3 stated that “the government of Japan, during its colonial and wartime occupation of…
March 20, 2015 – “China’s ‘comfort women’” (Financial Times)
“The sound of clay pots smashing against a stone floor shattered the cold spring morning. Zhang Xiantu woke. Japanese soldiers were in her home, breaking bowls as they searched for food. Zhang, 16 and just married, tried to run. But…
March 19, 2015 – “Comfort women statue proposal riles group of Japanese Canadians in Burnaby” (Burnaby Now)
‘Comfort women’ issue a controversy in Canada too: “Tina Rafferty, a Japanese-Canadian resident, spoke with the NOW about the statue. ‘This proposal is against the Canadian tradition of multiculturalism,’ she said. ‘This is a country where people come from all…
March 16, 2015 – “S. Korea, Japan to hold sex slavery talks” (Korea Times)
“South Korea and Japan were to hold talks on Tokyo’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II on Monday as the two historical rivals make efforts to improve their strained ties in a landmark year, Seoul’s foreign ministry…
March 12, 2015 – “Merkel urges apology for comfort women” (Korea Joongang Daily)
“The German chancellor and a retired American lawmaker are the latest to call on Tokyo to formally apologize to the now elderly women who were forced into Japanese military brothels during World War II.”