Unified Local Election Campaigns Begin
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on March 31, 2019.
Tag Archives: Hirofumi Yoshimura
US State Department Highlights Japan Human Rights Problems
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on March 21, 2019.
Female Interns Threatened over Pregnancies
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on March 15, 2019.
Resignation of Osaka Governor and Mayor
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on March 11, 2019.
The End of the Liberal Party
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on January 23, 2019.
Carlos Ghosn Trapped in Japan’s Legal Hell
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on January 11, 2019.
Japan Resigns from the International Whaling Commission
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on December 31, 2018.
Ghosn Prosecutors Double Down
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on December 24, 2018.
The Fall of Carlos Ghosn
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on November 25, 2018.
The Campaign to Overwrite the Comfort Women Past
In 1993, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono made the most full-throated admission and apology acknowledging that Japan had coerced women across Asia into being sex slaves—euphemistically referred to as “Comfort Women”—for the Japanese military during the Pacific War. More recently, however, conservative politicians such as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura have engaged in a campaign that is less about carving out a path toward reconciliation than to overwrite memories of an unsavory past.
