An Old Moral Judgment: Japan was the “Aggressor” A Statement of Fact: Japan Fought for “Self-defense” and “Liberation from Colonialism”   Many Japanese were fa...

David Williams One of Europe’s leading thinkers on modern Japan. Born in Los Angeles, he was educated in Japan and at UCLA, and has contributed for many years to the opinion section of the Los A...

  An Old Moral Judgment: Wartime Japan Was an “Evil Nation” A Statement of Fact: The Japanese Were Trying to Realize the Ideal of Racial Equality   Japan is often blamed for hist...

Interview with Professor Oh Seon-hwa Rather Than Becoming Like North Korea, South Korea Should Strive Toward Liberalism. Professor Oh Seon-hwa, Department of International Studies, Takushoku Universit...

Korea’s pre-modern methods include: Arresting previous presidents and banishing them from society Neglecting the rule of law   These are the ways to modernization Using the election system ...

Masanori Mizuma Researcher of Modern History, In 1950, Mr. Mizuma was born in the Hokkaido region of Japan. At Keio University’s Faculty of Law, he focused on political science, but Mr. Mizuna didn’t ...

“Putting our hands together to pray for those people who left behind their mothers, their beloved wives, and children, and for the souls who perished on the battlefield: This is common practice ...

Prime Minister Abe’s visit to Yasukuni Shrine provoked harsh criticism from not only China and South Korea, but also from the U.S. The reason behind it was an old idea about Japan that circulated arou...

The Chosun Ilbo, the largest-circulation daily in South Korea, raised questions about the nation’s anti-Japanese diplomatic policy in its column titled “Are Koreans Too Intractable?” The c...

While the conflict stricken areas have been expanding, criticisms against U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon have also been on the rise. Since he took office in January 2007, Mr. Ban has been known as...