The country recently pulled out of the UN’s gender equality committee over its refusal to change the male-only royal succession.
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Many victim-survivors and scholars say ‘sex slaves’ more accurately describes the abuses the women endured, but governments have been slow to change their view.
Critics of the South Korean leader accuse him of eroding democracy at home while embracing a historic enemy on the international stage.
US agreements with Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria provide reparations to WWII victims. But an international law scholar writes that the US has failed to address war crimes in Asia.
Beyond her own personal humiliation, the ramifications of Park’s fall are already reverberating from domestic South Korean politics into the fraught geopolitics of Northeast Asia.
Japan claims that the placement of “comfort girl” statues outside the Japanese legations in South Korea violates international law, but state practice and jurisprudence suggests otherwise.
A small bronze statue in Busan has kicked off a surprisingly big argument.
Even though three women have recently been appointed to powerful positions in Japanese politics, gender parity in the country is a long way off.
In 1943, during the height of World War II, fifteen-year-old Liu Mianhuan was tied up and taken away by Imperial Japanese troops from her village in Yu County, Shanxi Province, China. She was confined…
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Research Fellow of East Asia Studies, Lund University; Australian Catholic University
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Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University
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Louise Boyd Dale and Alfred Lichtenstein Professor of Chinese and Japanese and Director of Asian Studies Program, Vassar College
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Sasakawa Associate Professor of International Relations and Japanese Foreign Policy, University of East Anglia
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Doctoral candidate in International Law, Yonsei University
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Professor of Politics, Sophia University
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Associate Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University
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Assistant Professor of History, Arizona State University
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Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
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Lecturer in Japanese, La Trobe University