comfort women

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11-30-18
  

  'Comfort women': anger as Japan paper alters description of WWII terms

  Change prompts concern that country’s media is trying to rewrite wartime history under rightwing pressure.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-21-18
  

  South Korea Signals End to ‘Final’ Deal With Japan Over Wartime Sex Slaves

  The deal has been deeply unpopular among South Koreans, including some of the surviving victims, who say it fell short of official reparations and a declaration of legal responsibility on Japan’s part.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  10-4-18
  

  San Francisco Japanese sister-city cuts its ties over comfort women statue

  The mayor of Osaka objects to the statue, which memorializes the Korean women exploited by Japanese soldiers in the thirties and forties.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-12-18
  

  Japan Balks at Calls for New Apology to South Korea Over ‘Comfort Women’

  On matters of history, Japan and South Korea can never seem to agree to disagree.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-27-17
  

  Deal With Japan on Former Sex Slaves Failed Victims, South Korean Panel Says

  The conclusions threaten the 2015 agreement over so-called comfort women, forced to work in brothels for the Japanese military from the 1930s until 1945.

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• SOURCE: Asia-Pacific Journal
  12-14-17
  

  What happened when a teacher assigned a book on "comfort women" shocked her

  by Miriam Kingsberg Kadia

  It was in a course on modern Japanese history where things went haywire.

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• SOURCE: South China Morning Post
  11-5-17
  

  South Korean Professor Fined for Book About “Comfort Women,” Proving the Truth Is Still Dangerous

  The case against Park Yu-ha was not about whether her academic research was correct but whether the nine plaintiffs in the defamation suit had been harmed.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  7-10-17
  

  'Comfort women': Researchers claim first known film

  South Korea has released what it says is the first known footage of "comfort women" forced to work as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War Two.

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• SOURCE: Japan Today
  3-1-17
  

  Japan has asked joined suit filed at the US Supreme Court to remove "comfort women” statue in California

  The statue was erected in a community where Korean Americans live.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-25-17
  

  Professor Who Wrote of Korean ‘Comfort Women’ Wins Defamation Case

  In a case closely followed by the South Korean news media, a judge in the Eastern District Court in Seoul ruled that her academic freedom must be protected.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  1-6-17
  

  Japan recalls Korean envoy over 'comfort women' statue

  Japan has temporarily withdrawn its ambassador to South Korea, amid an escalating row over a statue representing wartime sex slaves.

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• SOURCE: The Los Angeles Times
  2-8-16
  

  'Comfort women' and a lesson in how history is shaped in California textbooks

  After nearly a decade of delays, California educators released a draft guideline that will shape how history is taught to students across the state.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-29-15
  

  South Korean and Japanese Leaders Feel Backlash From ‘Comfort Women’ Deal

  The leaders of South Korea and Japan faced a barrage of criticism on Tuesday from nationalists upset about a landmark deal aimed at resolving a dispute over Korean women who had been pressed into sexual servitude in Japanese military brothels before and during World War II.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-28-15
  

  South Korea and Japan Reach Deal on Wartime Sex Slaves

  Japan made an apology and promised an $8.3 million payment as part of a deal to resolve the longstanding dispute over Koreans forced into sexual slavery in World War II.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-18-15
  

  Disputing Korean Narrative on ‘Comfort Women,’ a Professor Draws Fierce Backlash

  Park Yu-ha has been charged with defamation for a book that challenged the common understanding of “comfort women” as innocent girls taken forcibly and raped by Japanese colonizers.

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• SOURCE: Letter to the Editor, Perspectives
  12-7-15 (accessed)
  

  In an open letter Japanese historians say the government of Japan was right to challenge a textbook's claims about the role of "comfort women" in WW 2

  Their claim: McGraw-Hill bought into a narrative fiction peddled by some historians.

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• SOURCE: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
  8-6-15 (accessed)
  

  You Don't Want to Know About the Girls? The 'Comfort Women', the Japanese Military and Allied Forces in the Asia-Pacific War

  by Tessa Morris-Suzuki

  Seventy years after the end of the Asia Pacific War, we have barely taken the first steps towards overcoming the problems of violence against women in war.

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• SOURCE: The Korea Herald
  3-26-15
  

  U.S. historian denounces Japanese scholars' statement over wartime sexual slavery

  The demand, led by history scholar Ikuhiko Hata, followed and were similar to the much-denounced attempts by Japan's government to pressure U.S. publisher McGraw-Hill to alter the description of the sexual slavery issue, claiming there are grave errors in the textbook.

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• SOURCE: The Japan Times
  3-18-15
  

  Japanese scholars criticize U.S. history textbook

  A group of 19 Japanese historians and scholars plan to file a protest with U.S. publisher McGraw-Hill, claiming a history textbook it published in 2011 contains a number of “factual errors” on the “comfort women” issue.

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• SOURCE: AHA
  3-10-15 (accessed)
  

  Historians are defending a publisher reprimanded by Japan's prime minister

  Textbook publisher McGraw-Hill was rebuked for refusing to drop a reference to comfort women in World War II.