The 11-member San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted a resolution demanding its sister city’s mayor, Toru Hashimoto, retract his comment that Japan’s wartime system of sexual slavery was necessary at the time, according to a Japan Times article. The Osaka mayor said in May the so-called “comfort women” were a “necessary evil” so […]
Just when the rhetoric on both sides seemed to be fading, last week the People’s Daily, a Chinese newspaper, ran a lengthy commentary penned by two academics challenging Japan’s sovereign rights to the Ryukyu island chain – not far from Taiwan and home to Okinawa prefecture, the administrative body of the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku islands directly […]