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Japanese PM, Obama Pay Respects At Pearl Harbor
Seventy-five years after Pearl Harbor, President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Tuesday at the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii — the site of the 1941 […]
Japanese Prime Minister Abe Stops Short of Apology for World War II
Pictured above: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a statement to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. (Screenshot captured via Reuters Video) by KEN […]
Korean Man Sets Himself on Fire to Protest Japan’s Wartime Sex Slavery
by ALEX HYUN | @ahyundarkb4dawn editor@charactermedia.com Days ahead of Korea’s 70th Liberation Day, an 80-year old South Korean man lit himself on fire on Wednesday outside the Japanese embassy […]
Former Japanese Prime Minister Urges Abe to Uphold Japan’s WWII Apologies
Pictured above: Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama at the Japan National Press Club. (Screenshot captured from JNPC footage) by MARI YAMGUCHI | @mariyamaguchi Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — […]
Former ‘Comfort Women’ Journalist Vows to Take Stand
Pictured above: Takashi Uemura greets Grandma Lee before his talk May 8 at UCLA co-sponsored by the Center for Korean Studies and the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies. (Photo […]
Shinzo Abe Offers ‘Remorse’ But No Apology for WWII ‘Comfort Women’
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com For some, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s “eternal condolences” for the American lives lost during World War II were not enough. In […]
Seoul to Strengthen Education on ‘Comfort Women’
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com The South Korean government announced on Wednesday that it will make efforts to further educate its elementary school students about Japans’s sexual enslavement […]
Abe Expected to Mention Japan’s Wartime Sex Slavery During U.S. Trip: U.S. Congressman
Pictured above: House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at his official residence. The meeting was in Tokyo, Japan on April 3, 2015. (Photo courtesy […]
Nancy Pelosi Urges Abe to Apologize for Japan’s Wartime Sex Slavery
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi urged Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday to acknowledge and apologize for the sexual slavery committed […]
Shinzo Abe Invited to Address Joint U.S. Congress Session
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will speak before a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress on April 29, reports Yonhap News Agency. […]
Shinzo Abe Urged to Clearly Apologize for Sexual Slavery, War Crimes Before U.S. Trip
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com As all signs point to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe making a trip to the United States later this spring, several activists […]
2 Former ‘Comfort Women’ Meet With White House Officials
Lee Ok-Seon (front left) and Kang Il-chul (front right) pose with Paulette Aniskoff (back left), the director of the Office of Public Engagement and another White House official during […]
NKorea to Reopen Investigation on Japanese Abductees
by RUTH KIM Twelve years after admitting to the abduction of 13 Japanese nationals in the 1970s and ’80s, North Korea is reportedly reopening a previously hampered investigation into the fates […]
Japanese Prime Minister: We Won’t Emulate Germany In Reconciling War Crimes
Photo courtesy of Kyodo Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe said his country cannot follow Germany’s footsteps in mending its relationships with neighboring countries, although he acknowledged Japan’s wartime atrocities. […]
