Posts Tagged With: comfort women

Picture of the Day: Comfort Woman Memorial

» by GI Korea December 19th, 2011 at 12:50 pm » Comments (6)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="To mark the 1000th weekly protest in front of the Japanese (which, by my calculations, would mean they started in 1992, which sounds about right), supporters ...more »

Picture of the Day: Former Comfort Woman Remembered

» by GI Korea December 3rd, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (6)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="437" caption="Actor Kwon Hae-hyo carries a picture of Roh Soo-bok, a former sexual slave for Japanese soldiers during World War II, as other former "comfort women" and ...more »

Japan Will Not Discuss War Time Sex Slave Issue With South Korea

» by GI Korea October 3rd, 2011 at 10:14 pm » Comments (6)

This is not a surprising response from the Japanese government considering their past stance on this issue: Japan has turned down South Korea’s proposal to hold bilateral talks about Korean women ...more »

Site Selected For Comfort Women Museum

» by GI Korea July 22nd, 2011 at 5:37 pm » Comments (24)

They should build this place right next to the Sodaemun Prison along with constructing a Dokdo Museum and this would allow Koreans to spend a whole day getting their anti-Japanese ...more »

Picture of the Day: Japanese Women Join Comfort Women Protest

» by GI Korea May 22nd, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (8)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Japanese people from Osaka take part in the 970th weekly Wednesday protests outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul calling on Tokyo to resolve the issue of ...more »

Michael Honda Again Demands Japanese Apology

» by GI Korea August 14th, 2009 at 6:24 pm » Comments (7)

Michael Honda is in Korea probably to escape health care protesters and is once again demanding an apology from Japan: Tokyo has yet to make a “formal and unequivocal” government apology ...more »

Picture of the Day: Representative Michael Honda In Korea

» by GI Korea August 13th, 2009 at 1:00 pm » Comments (0)

U.S. Representative Michael Honda of California, left, visits yesterday the House of Sharing in Gwangju, Gyeonggi, a home for surviving comfort women who were forced into sex slavery by the ...more »

LA Times Features Korean World War II Comfort Women

» by GI Korea May 4th, 2009 at 6:57 am » Comments (9)

It seems like every few month some major paper features an article on Korea's World War II comfort women: Reporting from Toechon, South Korea -- Kang Il-chul rides in the ...more »

Comfort Woman Memorial Opens on Okinawa

» by GI Korea September 8th, 2008 at 6:37 pm » Comments (4)

I wonder if this will get any notice in the Korean media: About 100 people from Japan and South Korea attended the unveiling Sunday of a cenotaph commemorating wartime sex slaves ...more »

The Real Moral Bankruptcy of the Comfort Women Issue

» by GI Korea April 6th, 2007 at 6:49 am » Comments (30)

The Chosun Ilbo today has an editorial about a phone call placed between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President George Bush. Here is what the reportedly discussed: According ...more »