PYONGYANG, North Korea - Millions of North Korean children are not getting the food, medicine or health care they need to develop physically or mentally, leaving many stunted and malnourished, the United Nations said Tuesday.

Nearly a third of children under age 5 show signs of stunting, particularly in rural areas where food is scarce, and ( Read more... )

Divided Memories: History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia
Some common assumptions about history textbooks used in Japan turn out to be ill-founded. Far from inculcating patriotism, as many overseas observers assume, Japanese high school textbooks tend to dryly present a chronology of historical facts, with little interpretive narrative added. This ( Read more... )

In New Jersey, Memorial for ‘Comfort Women’ Deepens Old Animosity

Two delegations of Japanese officials visited Palisades Park, N.J., this month with a request that took local administrators by surprise: The Japanese wanted a small monument removed from a public park ( Read more... )

Mixed-race children face new obstacles

Abandonment and abuse put them at disadvantage from the start

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First, a little bit of background. As many of the readers know, although the Japanese government recognized its responsibility for Imperial Japan's hand in forcibly recruiting Comfort Women, the Japanese government has not yet made any compensation out of government funds.

Some of the surviving Comfort Women in Korea -- there are only 63 of them, ( Read more... )

Japan returns Korean royal archives after a century

More than 1,000 Korean royal archives and other centuries-old books Tokyo had promised to return to Seoul are all back home in South Korea for the first time in almost 100 years.Japanese government officials hope that the gesture will improve the South Korean population's view of Japan before ( Read more... )