SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid a series of assaults from conservative extremists in Japan surrounding the case of sex slaves committed by the Japanese military, like-minded Japanese citizens are gathering to hold exhibitions of the Statue of Peace. The Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Inconvenient Exhibition of Expression, consisting of civic group activists [...]
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, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of Korean students at Harvard Law School has decried a professor’s recent controversial claims that victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery were willing prostitutes as “factually incorrect and misleading.” On Thursday, the Korean Association of Harvard Law School issued a statement criticizing a recent article by J. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — With the spread of the coronavirus outbreak raising alarm across the country, regular Wednesday demonstrations demanding that Japan apologize for its wartime sexual slavery, protests that have been held continuously since 1992 have also been affected. On Wednesday, for the first time ever, the Korean Council for Justice and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court held the first hearing Wednesday on a compensation suit filed by Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sex slavery. The move comes roughly three years after 20 plaintiffs, including victims and family members of deceased victims, filed the case against the Japanese government with the Seoul Central [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea Tuesday denounced the Japanese consul general based in Atlanta, the United States, for his recent remarks disparaging Korean women who were forced into sexual service for front-line Japanese soldiers during World War II. In a recent media interview, Takashi Shinozuka, the consul general of Japan in Atlanta, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans’ calls for the renegotiation of a 2015 Seoul-Tokyo deal on Japan’s sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II have been rising amid the rekindling of a row between the two countries over symbols of the victims, according to poll results released by Gallup Korea on [...]
SUWON, South Korea, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A girl statue, symbolizing victims who were sexually enslaved by Japanese troops during its occupation of the Korean Peninsula (1910-45), will be erected in Germany’s southwestern city by the end of this year, a local mayor said Monday. The city of Suwon, south of Seoul, has reached [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has decided to use Japan’s comfort women fund to financially assist Korean women sexually enslaved by Japanese troops during Japan’s colonial-rule of the Korean Peninsula decades ago, the foreign ministry said Thursday. The government will provide 100 million won (US$89,581) to surviving victims who were forced to [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The mayor of Seoul, Park Won-soon, announced that the city would take responsibility for registering sex slaves’ records with UNESCO’s ‘Memory of the World’ programme if the Korean government cancels its own plans due to budget cuts. UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme was initiated to protect the “documentary heritage of [...]