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Harvard Law Professor J. Mark Ramseyer’s new book about a North Korean plot to ruin relations between South Korea, Japan, and the U.S. has stirred controversy.
Japan has argued that the matter was already settled under a 1965 treaty.
Japan and South Korea have reached an agreement on the “comfort women” issue that has made a lot of people uncomfortable.
An apology from Japan’s prime minister and a pledge of more than $8 million sealed a breakthrough deal Monday on a decades-long impasse with South Korea over Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War II
A bronze statue of a seated young women with a small bird on her shoulder has become the center of a Korean-Japanese debate on the history of World War II.
When Christine Colligan learned her mother had gotten married at the age of 15 to avoid being drafted as one of the “comfort women” during World War II, she was shocked.
