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U.S. Backs Academic Freedom amid Japan’s Effort to Alter Textbook

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States strongly supports academic freedom, the State Department said Sunday, as history scholars criticize Japan for pressuring an American textbook publisher to change the description of Tokyo’s sexual enslavement of Asian women during World War II. A group of American history scholars have issued a protest statement denouncing Japan’s [...]

Newly Appointed US Ambassador to Korea Signifies Strong Korea-US Relationship

“The Korea-U.S. relationship, which is stronger now than ever, is one of the most important diplomatic relations that the United States is maintaining throughout the world. The two nations share cherished values such as free market, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law and fought a war on the same side to defend these [...]