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The Japanese government cannot avoid criticism due to its endorsement of a contentious history textbook that denies the forced conscription of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II. The textbook, infamous for its staunchly conservative stance, asserted, 'There was no forced mobilization, and they were compensated.' Furthermore, it went on to claim that the Japanese army did not transport Korean women to the war front as they did with war correspondents andnurses.

Two professors argue based on documentary evidence that the Japanese did not forcibly conscript Korean women to be prostitutes. 

Document from Japanese archive provides clear evidence of mobilization of Dutch women in Japan-controlled Indonesia

Long-term institutionalization of trilateral cooperation can only truly take root after it has survived political transitions in the United States, South Korea, and Japan.

Predictions are that the core of this historical confrontation will shift as South Koreans take a fresh look at North Korea's role. Will Tokyo follow?