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Statement on ‘Necessary’ Comfort Women Reverberates in China, Korea, and Japan

By Minami Funakoshi on May 15, 2013

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Comfort Women, rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, August 2011. (Claire Solery/Wikimedia Commons)

On May 8, the Japanese government announced it would honor the 1995 war apology, a decision widely interpreted as a diplomatic gesture aimed at smoothing ties with China.  Tensions between the two countries have recently …

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Chinese Web Users React to Japanese Election Results With Anger, Disappointment

By Minami Funakoshi on December 17, 2012

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On Sunday, Japan’s conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) returned to power, winning 294 of the 480 seats in the lower house of the nation’s parliament, which is empowered to choose the nation’s Prime Minister. Ex-prime …

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