My interview with Foreign Policy magazine about key groups who were included –and excluded–from the recent agreement between Seoul and Tokyo on the “comfort women.” The Wisdom of Japan’s Cunning Contrition
Tag: reconciliation
Shinzo Abe’s Balancing Act
We see lots of negative reaction to Abe’s 70th anniversary statement, both from the media and from Japan’s neighbors. But this ‘glass half-empty’ verdict “ignores the other half of a very interesting glass.” My op-ed[…]
History’s not standing in the way
Observers of poor relations between Japan and South Korea often lament that history sustains poor relations between the two countries. In a new article at Foreign Affairs, I argue that this gets the causal arrow[…]