Kaiser talks with Lucy Hornby, China correspondent for the Financial Times and author of a recent piece on China’s last surviving Chinese comfort women and their longstanding and often futile attempt to seek reparations in both China and Japan.Also, other stories of reparations and post-war politics that may leave you like us somewhat less cynical going out than coming
In 2015, the two countries signed a controversial deal on the sexual enslavement of South Korean women by Japan during World War II; this latest ruling is viewed as favouring President Yoon Suk Yeol, who has been striving to improve relations with Japan.
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The politics of entrenched misogyny has avoided inquiry into inequality that first enabled the exploitation, writes Edward Vickers (Kyushu University).