SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Japanese right-wing extremists were seen insulting and threatening the director of a documentary film about the life and testimony of Lee Yong-soo, a 93-year-old victim of the Japanese military’s sexual slavery during World War II. Last week, Britain’s Channel 4 aired the Japanese Wartime Sex Slave episode for “Unreported [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Right-wing extremists in Japan are stepping up to protect J. Mark Ramseyer, a Japanese legal studies professor at Harvard University who has claimed that sex slaves held captive by the Japanese military during World War II were ‘contractual prostitutes’. Extremists are attempting to create a sentiment against calls to [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A Japanese exhibition hall aimed at promoting the country’s claim to Korea’s easternmost islets of Dokdo will be relocated near the Korean Cultural Center developed by the Korean government in Tokyo. According to the Japanese daily newspaper Sankei Shimbun, the Territory and Sovereignty Exhibition Hall that opened at the [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A piece of street art symbolizing the Ilbe online community was badly damaged Wednesday, creating controversy. Ilbe is an extreme right-wing group that has been criticized for its often far-fetched conservatism and misogynic viewpoints. The artwork was modeled after a hand gesture that is used by Ilbe members as [...]