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Takaichi's Taiwan remarks reopen wounds of Japan's wartime legacy
21 Nov 2025 16:13 GMT
… , Japan waged brutal aggression across Asia during World War Two. Its invasions in China and other Asian countries … quot;comfort women" system. Women across Asia were abducted, deceived or coerced into sexual servitude. Official South Korean records …
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Document reveals how Japanese women were duped into postwar sex work
16 Nov 2025 21:51 GMT
… forces immediately after Japan';s surrender in World War II misled women … Tsugawa police station reveals the brothels'; urgent efforts to recruit comfort women.
It also records the … Cultural Center Arirang, a Korean cultural institution in Tokyo' …
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Born to be a little wild, but no rebel without a cause: Inside the world of Japan’s first female PM
15 Nov 2025 18:57 GMT
… the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University. … “comfort women” in the 1930s and during World War II, the Chinese, Korean and … taken by Japanese forces to work in brothels servicing troops. … Xi Jinping.”
Takaichi with China’s President Xi Jinping …
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A Historic Victory, a Complicated Legacy, and the Challenges Ahead for New Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi
10 Nov 2025 23:20 GMT
… ;comfort women" were coerced to provide sexual services to Japan';s military during the World War … Korea, Japan has developed a reputation as a stabilizing force in the region. Trusted as a reliable and steady partner for Southeast Asia, Japan has …
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The price of denial: How militarism manufactures historical amnesia
21 Nov 2025 15:27 GMT
… in the invasion of China during World War II (WWII) and was subsequently found … Chinese civilians and soldiers; the "comfort women" issue of the Japanese military forcing into sex slavery captured women in China, Korea …
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Berlin's Comfort Women Statue Removed After Years of Standoff
22 Oct 2025 13:39 GMT
… measures.
The comfort women statue in Berlin … World War II.
Tokyo has categorically denied these claims.
Comfort women … statue in front of the former Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea. (©JAPAN … instance of a comfort woman statue being …
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S. Korea group's "comfort women" statue removed in Berlin after court order
17 Oct 2025 22:39 GMT
… to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II was removed … South Korean civic group, to remove the "comfort women" … in 2022, former Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida … from Japan';s 1910-1945 colonization of the Korean Peninsula, …
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German Authorities Remove "Comfort Women" Statue
17 Oct 2025 20:40 GMT
… ;comfort women," or those who worked as prostitutes for Japanese troops … before and during World War II.
The … set up by a South Korean-affiliated group, came after … year period granted.
The Japanese Embassy in Germany had …
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Tomiichi Murayama, Japanese PM who apologised for war
03 Nov 2025 23:15 GMT
… of the Second World War.
The centrepiece … 50th anniversary of Japan’s Second World War surrender — the … Japan were initially mixed, but western and Asian nations, including South Korea and China … termed “comfort women” during the war, women — primarily Korean — …
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S. Korea group's 'comfort women' statue removed in Berlin after court order
17 Oct 2025 09:09 GMT
… symbolizing so-called comfort women forced to work in Japanese wartime brothels on Oct … forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II was removed from … , a South Korean civic group, to remove the "comfort women" statue …