SDHF Newsletter No. 411 Japan, US, Korea joint symposium

“Japan, US, South Korea Joint Symposium” to condemn the comfort women issue held
(Part I)

September 6, 2024

Japanese, American and South Korean researchers grandly assembled in Tokyo

On July 10, 2024, the Third International Symposium over the Comfort Women Issue was held at Seiryo-kaikan Hall at Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, to refute the fiction of the comfort women issue and to pursue a true understanding between Japan and South Korea.

The symposium was held once in Tokyo in 2022 and twice in Seoul in 2023. The persistent lie about the forced abduction of comfort women during the Pacific War has already been perfectly refuted by studies reported during the past two symposiums.
The main goal of the symposium this time was for Japanese, American and South Korean researchers of the comfort women issue to get together in Tokyo, review the activities so far, exchange information related to the situations in the respective countries, deepen the mutual bonds and clearly show the way to the complete solution of the comfort women issue.

As this is an extremely important theme in terms of the national honor of Japan and peace and security in the entire East Asia, an audience of nearly 300 people packed the hall and the symposium was opened in the most enthusiastic atmosphere.

The program was as below:

Part 1: Keynote lectures
1. Mr. Nishioka Tsutomu, Professor at Reitaku University
The comfort women issue as a historical recognition issue
2. Mr. Lee Young hoon, ex-Professor at Seoul University
Destructive impact of the Japanese military comfort women issue on the South Korean society
3. Mr. Ramseyer, Professor at Harvard University
Historical issues and the issue of U.S. universities -what we should do from now on
Part 2: Study reports
1. Mr. Lew Seok-choon, ex-Professor at Yonse University
Lecture at Yonse University and defamatory criminal charge
2. Mr. Fukui Yoshitaka, Professor at Aoyama University
The problem of the facts and value judgement about the comfort women; from a viewpoint of
economic analysis
3. Mr. Kim Byeong-heon, director of the Korean Historical Textbook Research Center
Judgement document for the comfort women lawsuit against Japan in 2023 and descriptions of the comfort women issue in school textbooks
4. Mr. Lee Wooyoun, researcher at the Naksongdae Economic Research Institute
Reporting trend of Korean media about the comfort women issue: Focus on the Park Yu-ha’s case and the academic riot against Ramseyer
5. Mr. Matsuki Kunitoshi, director of the Korean Modern History Research Center
Lawsuit against Japan on the comfort women issue: danger of revival of the individual right for claim, which will destroy the Japan-Korean relationship

Mr. Matsuki compiled an overall report on this event, which has been published in Hanada+ from August 7. With permission of Hanada+, we will introduce his report in serial form of three Parts. This is Part 1.

Part 1: URL:　 https://www.sdh-fact.com/essay-article/2221/
　　　　PDF:　 https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Joint-1E.pdf

MOTEKI Hiromichi, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact