That’s also why he has publicly questioned the "comfort women" history and stated that Class A war criminals are not criminals under Japan’s domestic law. To him, the two issues are intertwined.

who claimed that donations received by the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan were not going to the former comfort women.

The statue, which commemorates the "comfort women" of World War II, has embroiled the local government in a minor diplomatic controversy. A South Korean court's recent ruling is likely to further ...

An appellate court in South Korea last month ordered Japan to compensate the 16 “comfort women,” overturning a lower court ruling that had dismissed the case. Appeals must be filed within two ...

But in Japan, even if a girl has no brothers ... has had eight empresses throughout its history. The law also mandates that the royal-born women in the family who marry a person without a noble ...

Japan is commemorating workers who died at the Sado Island Gold Mines, a UNESCO World Heritage site with a controversial past. Hundreds of Koreans were subjected to forced labor there during World War ...

This series explores topics surrounding women who began their careers in Japan around the time of the implementation of equal opportunities employment legislation in the mid-1980s. With many now ...

Japan’s decision to exclude CEDAW from the list of recipients of its voluntary funding isn’t just about imperial succession. It reflects how gender and history continue to shape the country ...