Ainsley Earhardt on surviving Comfort Women telling their terrifying story from WWII
A few weeks ago, Harvard Professor J. Mark Ramseyer sparked a global outrage by rewriting a history that remains painful for many families today.
Ramseyer wrote an article – Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War – about Korean comfort women that was criticized by individuals, organizations and groups around the world as factually inaccurate and misleading. His article suggested that these women were voluntarily contracted to participate in prostitution. This article caused an outpouring of anger among the Asian American and academic communities, and rightfully so. FILE - In this Feb. 3. 2014, file photo, a visitor looks at portraits of late former comfort women who were forced to serve for the Japanese troops as a sexual slave during World War II, at the House of Sharing, a nursing home and museum for 10 former sex slaves, in Toechon, South Korea. ‘Comfort women w
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News Navigator: What happened in Japan s February 26 Incident coup attempt?
March 3, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Rebel soldiers gather in the courtyard of the Metropolitan Police Department on Feb. 26, 1936. (Mainichi) The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about Japan s February 26 Incident that took place in 1936. Question: I heard there was a big incident 85 years ago on Feb. 26. What was it? Answer: On that day in 1936, a group of young Imperial Japanese Army officers in their 20s and 30s led some 1,500 of their subordinates into killing or injuring ministers, military chiefs, police guards and others. It s known as the February 26 Incident, and is said to be the largest attempted coup in modern Japanese history.
Takamatsu Gushiken, left, chats with Fumiko Shimabukuro, a survivor of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, who came to show her support for him during his hunger strike near the Okinawa prefectural government building on March 1. (Mika Kuniyoshi)
NAHA A 67-year-old man is staging a hunger strike here to stop fragments of remains of people killed in the 1945 Battle of Okinawa from being used in a project to build a U.S. military base.
Takamatsu Gushiken is appalled that the central government intends to procure landfill material from southern Okinawa, as he says it likely contains remains of those who died in the fighting mixed into it.