A key trigger in turning the comfort women issue into a diplomatic problem was an Asahi article to which much space was devoted in the morning edition dated Jan. 11, 1992. The report read to the eff...

The ruling and opposition parties called on The Asahi Shimbun to reflect on its past reports on so-called comfort women, and make efforts to dispel a misunderstanding among the international communit...

OSAKA — The Asahi Shimbun has formally appointed Masataka Watanabe as its new president, and Shinya Iida as its new chairman, the company announced Friday, after obtaining approval at an extraordin...

OSAKA — Shareholders of The Asahi Shimbun, which came under fire for its reporting on the Yoshida file and so-called comfort women, approved the resignation of Tadakazu Kimura as president of the n...

SAPPORO — Hokusei Gakuen University will discontinue the employment of a former Asahi Shimbun reporter who was involved in the newspaper’s reporting about the so-called comfort women issue and re...

Upon The Yomiuri Shimbun’s request, The Asahi Shimbun on Thursday disclosed 12 of 16 articles on so-called comfort women, which the daily retracted in August because it admitted they contained misi...

The first meeting of The Asahi Shimbun’s third-party panel to examine its reports on the issue of so-called comfort women was held in Tokyo on Thursday. The panel, chaired by lawyer and former Na...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has reiterated at a Diet session that the government will maintain the Kono statement released in 1993 as its position on the so-called comfort women, who provided sex for J...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a key Diet session Friday that the Asahi Shimbun’s erroneous reports on so-called wartime comfort women led to the prevailing global misperception that Japan as a sta...

Online criticism of The Asahi Shimbun over its coverage of so-called comfort women has escalated to an alarming level, with abuse directed at former reporters of the daily and even death threats bein...

The Asahi Shimbun has selected the members of the third-party panel that will be established to examine its reports on the issue of so-called comfort women. The panel will be led by lawyer Hideki N...

The Asahi Shimbun carried an article in its Monday morning edition saying the newspaper has “corrected part of” a special set of articles it ran in August concerning the issue of so-called comfor...

The Asahi Shimbun did not carry the monthly column by journalist Akira Ikegami in the morning edition of its paper on Friday, saying the writer is still considering whether to continue contributing t...

BEIJING — The official newspaper of China's People’s Liberation Army has brushed off The Asahi Shimbun’s retraction of its erroneous articles on the so-called comfort women issue. The PLA Da...

The Asahi Shimbun has come under public scrutiny as to whether it can verify the essence of its reports on so-called comfort women. Meanwhile, it plans to establish a third-party panel to thoroughly ...

Asahi Shimbun President Tadakazu Kimura announced Thursday that the national daily would ask a third-party panel to thoroughly examine its reports on the issue of so-called comfort women. The Asahi ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe criticized The Asahi Shimbun on Thursday, saying on a radio program that the newspaper’s reporting on the issue of so-called comfort women tarnished Japan’s honor. “...

WASHINGTON / NEW YORK — The Asahi Shimbun’s latest apologies and retraction of its May article on the so-called Yoshida file concerning the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have ...

The Asahi Shimbun apologized again to its readers Saturday for rejecting a column by journalist Akira Ikegami that criticized the newspaper’s articles examining its decades of reports on so-called c...

About 70 percent of respondents in a recent Yomiuri Shimbun survey said they thought past Asahi Shimbun articles that contained false testimony about so-called comfort women had a negative impact on ...

A 1996 U.N. report that determined that so-called comfort women had served as “sex slaves” for the former Imperial Japanese Army after being “taken away forcibly,” was affected by a series of...

Freelance journalist Akira Ikegami has yet to decide whether he will continue to write his regular column in The Asahi Shimbun, despite the paper’s apology to him for previously refusing to run his...

Reversing a prior decision, The Asahi Shimbun on Thursday carried a column written by freelance journalist Akira Ikegami that criticized the Asahi’s coverage of the issue of so-called comfort women...

A feature article written by news analyst Akira Ikegami for his column in The Asahi Shimbun that examined the newspaper’s coverage of wartime “comfort women” was rejected for publication, it ha...

This is the first installment in a new series. Thirty-two years after The Asahi Shimbun first reported unverified remarks that Korean women were “forcibly taken away” to serve as so-called com...

Yoshihisa Inoue, secretary general of New Komeito, the Liberal Democratic Party’s ruling coalition partner, has criticized The Asahi Shimbun, saying it has not sufficiently reflected on the retract...

Amid mounting criticism over the retraction of some of its reports on so-called comfort women, The Asahi Shimbun published an article on Thursday headlined, “The core of the comfort women issue has...

A Liberal Democratic Party panel decided Thursday to ask the government to issue a new statement on wartime “comfort women.” The ruling party’s Policy Research Council wants the chief cabinet...

A group of Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers on history education on Friday decided to look at facts linked to the Asahi Shimbun’s recent withdrawal of articles on “comfort women” that it publ...

Summary of Asahi article The Asahi cited testimony by Seiji Yoshida, now deceased, at least 16 times as strong evidence that comfort women were forcibly taken away. The first article appeared on Sep...

Summary of Asahi article The female volunteer corps were mobilized during the war to work in munitions factories and other places. The Asahi Shimbun admitted it had incorrectly used this term to ref...

Summary of Asahi article The Asahi Shimbun reported in 1991 and 1992 that comfort women were “forcibly taken away,” presenting examples such as Seiji Yoshida’s testimony about “hunting” on...

Summary of Asahi article The top article in the city news section of The Asahi Shimbun’s Osaka edition of Aug. 11, 1991, featured the testimony of Kim Hak Sun, an alleged former comfort woman, ah...

Summary of Asahi article The Asahi Shimbun published an article under the headline “Comfort stations, records show military involvement” on the front page of its Jan. 11, 1992, morning edition....

Decades after The Asahi Shimbun carried articles on so-called comfort women with factual errors, setting off a stormy diplomatic controversy, issues of history still remain the biggest obstacle to imp...

Of all the Asahi stories on the comfort women issue, the most influential was carried on the front page of the Jan. 11, 1992, morning edition, reporting that “documents were found to show military...

The crux of the debate on the comfort women issue boils down to whether these women were systematically and violently recruited and taken away by Japanese government authorities, and whether their li...

Although The Asahi Shimbun’s admission that its comfort women stories contained factual errors came very late, I think we should give credit to the daily for correcting the inaccuracies and announc...

The rise of China and other factors are creating significant changes in the power relationships of East Asia. I think this is having an impact on national sentiment in countries in the region. Curren...

Summary of Kono statement Aug. 4, 1993 The Government of Japan has been conducting a study on the issue of wartime “comfort women.” As a result of the study which indicates that comfort stat...