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Japan's info center breaks pledge made to world
Japan's info center breaks pledge made to world
- Japan has a second chance
- Aug 02,2021
- By Mark Peterson Professor emeritus at Brigham Young University Not very often in life or in politics do you get a second chance, but Japan has one now. Sitting ...
- Tokyo info center must break free from nationalism
- Jun 30,2021
- By Yasuto Takeuchi Researcher of modern Japanese history Opened in March last year in central Tokyo, the Industrial Heritage Information Centre hosts an exhibition...
- Another Japanese war crime resurfacing: forced labor
- Jun 16,2021
- By Mark Peterson Professor emeritus at Brigham Young University We have seen in the last few months a revival of concern over Japan's abuse of women during World W...
- Japan's Meiji heritage center violates UNESCO spirit
- Aug 16,2020
- By Nam Kijeong Professor at Institute for Japanese Studies of Seoul National University The Industrial Heritage Information Centre in Tokyo is becoming the new flashp...
- What Japan can learn from Germany's culture of remembering history
- Aug 08,2020
- The following op-ed was written by Richard Kubitzki, teacher at Joseph-DuMont-Vocational College Cologne, and published by The Frankfurter Rundschau on August 4, 2020. Ko...
- Change Japan's info center into one for joint history remembrance
- Aug 01,2020
- On the opening of the Industrial Heritage Information Centre By Kim Min-chul Professor at Kyung Hee UniversitySenior researcher at Center for Historical Truth and J...
- [Visit to Industrial Heritage Information Centre] Place with no testimonies from victims
- Jul 19,2020
- By Hideki Yano Secretary-general of Japan-Korea Joint Action for Legislation to Compensate Korean Victims of Forced Labor To visit Tokyo's Industrial Heritage Informa...
- Japan’s info center must reflect proper truth, not ruins of historical revisionism
- Jul 12,2020
- By Lee Young-chae Professor at Keisen University The recent conflict provoked by an exhibition at Japan's Industrial Heritage Information Centre reminds me of my visi...
- Japanese gov't's broken pledge poses challenge to UNESCO
- Jun 29,2020
- The following op-ed was written by Nam Sanggu, research fellow at the Northeast Asia History Foundation in Seoul, and published by The Asia Times on June 28, 2020. Korea....
- Remembering Japan’s colonial abuses against Koreans on Hashima Island
- Jun 27,2020
- The following op-ed was written by Yuji Hosaka, a professor at Sejong University in Seoul, and published by The Diplomat on June 25, 2020. Korea.net has received the auth...