comfort women
May 22, 2013
A United Nations committee on May 21 called on Japan to prevent hate speech and other actions that degrade former “comfort women” and portray them as prostitutes for...
May 21, 2013
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto’s mouth was flapping again on May 20 in defense of his views on “comfort women,” saying even the South Korean military was guilty of using...
May 21, 2013
What politicians say can have far-reaching effects.
May 20, 2013
In 1941, Japanese men threatened 14-year-old Kim Bok-dong at her home in Korea and sent her off to frontline areas in China, Indonesia and Malaysia to serve as a "comfort woman,...
May 20, 2013
It is almost unthinkable that Toro Hashimoto, mayor of Osaka--Japan’s second largest city after Tokyo--has no sense of shame in repeating the irresponsible habits of several...
May 18, 2013
OSAKA—Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto is now pointing the finger at translators as well as native speakers of Japanese for the continuing criticism over his recent comments on...
May 17, 2013
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto on May 17 hit back at U.S. criticism of his remarks on "comfort women" by accusing the United States of using Japanese women to provide sex for...
May 16, 2013
OSAKA--Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto qualified some of his controversial remarks on wartime military brothels and ways to satisfy lustful U.S. servicemen in an attempt at damage...
May 16, 2013
OSAKA--Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto on May 15 tried to clarify his remarks about front-line brothels for Japanese troops before and during World War II and his proposal for U.S....
May 16, 2013
A multipartisan group of female lawmakers demanded that Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto retract his remark about wartime “comfort women,” saying he has embarrassed Japan and...
May 15, 2013
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto tried to counter the waves of criticism over his “comfort women” comments, but even members of the Abe administration were distancing themselves...
May 15, 2013
Outgoing South Korean Ambassador Shin Kak-soo severely criticized recent comments by Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto about the necessity of having "comfort women" who were forced...
May 15, 2013
Referring to “comfort women” who provided sex to soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto said “anyone can understand that...
May 14, 2013
OSAKA--Toru Hashimoto, co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party, stunned and flustered a U.S. military commander in Okinawa earlier this month with a suggestion that legalized...
May 13, 2013
OSAKA--Toru Hashimoto, co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party, said on May 13 that "comfort women" were necessary for Japanese soldiers during World War II, but then softened ...
May 10, 2013
During a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama, South Korean President Park Geun-hye referred to relations with Japan, saying that Tokyo needs to have correct historical...
February 26, 2013
SEOUL--Within hours of becoming South Korea's president, Park Geun-hye met with a high-level Japanese envoy and pledged to "build trust" with Japan and other regional neighbors....
February 08, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, stepping gingerly to avoid being drawn into a quagmire over his sense of history--an issue of acute concern to Japan's Asian neighbors--gave guarded...
February 08, 2013
Japan can try to solve its diplomatic troubles in three steps, commentator Richard Halloran writes in the Taipei Times. It can investigate the comfort women facts, publish a...
February 01, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he would shelve his long-held plan to review the 1993 government statement that expressed remorse for the suffering of "comfort women" before and ...