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All posts tagged "sexual slavery"

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  S. Korea rejects Abe’s demand to remove sex slave statue

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea on Thursday dismissed a news report saying that Japan’s premier had suggested the removal of a statue symbolizing South Korean victims of Tokyo’s sex slavery as a precondition for resolving the so-called...

  • Posted November 19, 2015
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  281 Japanese scholars urge Abe to offer apology for history

  TOKYO, June 8 (Yonhap) — Hundreds of Japanese pundits urged their Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Monday to offer his own apology for Japan’s wartime crimes and atrocities. The move comes a little over a month after Abe...

  • Posted June 8, 2015
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  S. Korea says Abe’s speech ‘very regrettable’

  SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) — South Korea denounced Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Thursday for his failure to apologize for Japan’s wartime atrocities, saying he thwarted chances to mend ties with Seoul. Responding to Abe’s speech in...

  • Posted April 30, 2015
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  Abe expected to mention sexual slavery issue during US trip: US lawmaker

  WASHINGTON, April 6 (Yonhap) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to mention the issue of the country’s wartime sexual enslavement of women when he visits the United States later this month, a U.S. congressman said...

  • Posted April 7, 2015
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  Royce, Honda – friends of Korea

  By Kim Tae-gyu On Jan. 31, a powerful U.S. congressman made an unprecedented visit in Glendale, California to a memorial statue for Korean women forced into sexual slavery by Japan during World War II. After paying his...

  • Posted February 6, 2014
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  Korea – Japan ‘Cyber war’

  White House’s ‘We the People’ website petition is the battleground  to protect or remove the commemorative statue in Glendale By Nam Hyun-woo More Korean nationals across the world are joining an online petition to protect a bronze...

  • Posted January 9, 2014
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