All posts tagged "comfort women"

  • Lee Sang-deok (L), Seoul's chief delegate to the talks on Japan's sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II, enters a conference room at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on March 16, 2015. At right is his Japanese counterpart, Junichi Ihara. The sides are seeking to improve their icy ties as this year marks the 50th anniversary of the normalization of their bilateral relations. The year also marks the 70th anniversary of Seoul's liberation from Tokyo's colonial rule in 1945. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea, Japan to hold sex slavery talks

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — 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...

    • Posted March 16, 2015
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    Comfort women off-broadway musical to open in July in NY

    An off-Broadway musical dealing with comfort women will open in July for the first time inside Theatre at St. Clement’s in New York. “Comfort Women: A New Musical” was written and directed by Kim Hyun-jun, an international...

    • Posted January 29, 2015
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  • This picture of "comfort women" were reportedly taken by an American Army photographer in 1944. (Yonhap)
    [Guardian] Japan urges US publisher to remove comfort women from textbooks

      Japan has taken its campaign to rewrite its wartime history into the classroom with demands that a United States publisher remove “inaccurate” descriptions of tens of thousands of women who were forced to work...

    • Posted January 16, 2015
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  • Glendale's comfort woman statue (Yonhap)
    LA Koreatown looks to install comfort women statue

    By Kim Chul-soo An effort to install a “comfort women” statue in Los Angeles’ Koreatown is underway. A fundraising campaign to erect a memorial similar to one of a young Korean comfort woman in Glendale, Calif., will...

    • Posted January 12, 2015
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  • Glendale's comfort woman statue (Yonhap)
    [NYT] Japanese reporter and the paper pay dear price for reporting on Korean ‘comfort women’

     — Takashi Uemura was 33 when he wrote the article that would make his career. Then an investigative reporter for The Asahi Shimbun, Japan’s second-largest newspaper, he examined whether the Imperial Army had forced women...

    • Posted December 2, 2014
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  • Comfort women memorial (Yonhap)
    Japan demands removal of comfort women statues

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Japan has demanded that South Korea remove statues set up at home and abroad to mark the victims of the Japanese Imperial Army’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II, government sources...

    • Posted November 30, 2014
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  • Artist Teresa Hwang, center, explains her exhibition to visitors Saturday. (Park Heung-ryul/The Korea Times)
    Koreatown exhibit opens to support Fullerton comfort women statue

    By Peter Pak A special exhibition to help fundraise for a proposed comfort women commemoration statue in Glendale, Calif., opened in Los Angeles’ Koreatown this weekend. Titled “Peace,” the exhibition displays egg art by artist Teresa Hwang,...

    • Posted November 3, 2014
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