Tomiichi Murayama, Japanese Leader Who Gave Landmark War Apology, Dies at 101

His televised address as prime minister, delivered 50 years to the day after Japan announced its surrender, set a marker for ...
Time

U.S. Rejects Japanese Broadcaster’s Claim It Used ‘Comfort Women’ in World War II

Correction appended, Jan. 30, 03:30 EST. It was the mayor of Osaka who said that comfort women served a “necessary” role, not the mayor of Hiroshima. The article has been amended to reflect this. Did ...
The New York Times

A Plea for Justice for Japan’s So-Called Comfort Women

Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military before and during World War II. By Vivian Morelli Reporting from Tokyo ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Murayama, known for apology over wartime aggression, dies at 101

Japan’s former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who was known for his 1995 “Murayama statement” apologizing to Asian victims ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama Dies at 101, Remembered For Wartime Apology

Japan’s former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who issued a landmark apology for the country’s wartime aggression in 1995, died on Friday at the age of 101, according to AP. Murayama died at a ...
Daily Inter Lake

Japanese War Brides: Kalispell featured in traveling Smithsonian exhibit

Wakako Kondoh Burk at bride school in Yokosuka, Japan in 1957. The American Red Cross created “Bride Schools” to teach Japanese women how to be an “American” wife and mother. (Photo courtesy of ...