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Dudden: Law Professor Promotes Denialism on WW II Military Sexual Slavery


Dudden: Law Professor Promotes Denialism on WW II Military Sexual Slavery
A still-contentious subject in Japan and Korea has become the focus of global attention
South Korean protesters stand beside a statue of a teenage girl symbolizing comfort women, who were sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II, near the Japanese embassy in Seoul on March 1, 2021, the 102nd anniversary of the Independence Movement Day against the 1910-1945 Japanese colonial rule. (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)
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A Harvard law professor recently sparked an international controversy by describing the documented history of state-sponsored sexual slavery during World War II by the imperial Japanese military as “pure fiction” in an op-ed in the Japan Forward newspaper and in the academic journal International Review of Law and Economics. ....

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Fukushima and Japan's Media Meltdown – The Diplomat


Fukushima and Japan’s Media Meltdown
10 years later, Japanese media have not shaken off the constraints that prevented meaningful investigative reporting after the Great East Japan Earthquake.
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March 12, 2021
Members of the media and Tokyo Electric Power Co. employees walk in front of the No. 4 reactor building, rear, crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, at the utility company’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, Saturday, May 26, 2012.
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This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. The ensuring triple disaster – earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi – killed nearly 20,000 people, destroying dozens of towns, rendering thousands of hectares uninhabitable, and spreading contamination that will take decades to remediate. ....

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