Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet on Wednesday approved the disbursement of ¥1 billion ($9.8 million) to a South Korean foundation to help Korean women forced to […]

By Kang Hyun-kyung SAN FRANCISCO — If Japan continues to deny its involvement in war rape and to refuse to compensate World War II “comfort women,” […]

As historians, we express our dismay at recent attempts by the Japanese government to suppress statements in history textbooks both in Japan and elsewhere about the […]

BY JEFF KINGSTON SPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMES FEB 14, 2015 Global understanding does not come cheaply. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government has budgeted ¥70 billion — […]