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Kono Statement
The Kono Statement refers to a statement released by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yōhei Kōno on August 4, 1993, after the conclusion of the government study that found that the Japanese Imperial Army had forced women, known as comfort women, to work in military-run brothels during World War II. The Japanese government had initially denied that the women had been coerced until this point. In the Kono Statement, the Japanese government acknowledged that: * "The then Japanese military was, directly or indirectly, involved in the establishment and management of the comfort stations". * "The recruitment of the comfort women was conducted mainly by private recruiters who acted in response to the request of the military." * "In many cases they were recruited against their own will, through coaxing, coercion, etc." * "At times, administrative/military personnel directly took part in the recruitments." * "They lived in misery at comfort stations under a coercive atmosphere." Background A sim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kono Yohei 1-2
Kono may refer to: Geography *Kono District, a district in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone ** Kono people, an ethnic group in Sierra Leone * Kono, Nigeria, a village in Rivers State, Nigeria * Kōno, Fukui, a village in Fukui, Japan * Kono people Nigeria, an ethnic group in Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna state Nigeria Languages * Kono language (Sierra Leone), a Mande language of Sierra Leone * Kono language (Guinea), a Mande language of Guinea *Kono language (Nigeria), a Benue-Congo language of Nigeria People with the surname * Kōno, a Japanese family name (including a list of people with the name) * Hiromichi Kono (1905-1963), Japanese entomologist and anthropologist *, Japanese voice actress Other * Gonu, Korean traditional board games *Jonas Saeed, a Swedish musician who goes by the stage name KONO See also * KONO (other) *Konno Konno (written: 金野, 今野 or 紺野) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ikuhiko Hata
is a Japanese historian. He earned his PhD at the University of Tokyo and has taught history at several universities. He is the author of a number of influential and well-received scholarly works, particularly on topics related to Japan's role in the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Hata is variously regarded as being a "conservative" historian or a "centrist". He has written extensively on such controversial subjects as the Nanking Massacre and the comfort women. Fellow historian Edward Drea has called him "the doyen of Japanese military historians". Education and career Ikuhiko Hata was born on 12 December 1932 in the city of Hōfu in Yamaguchi Prefecture. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1956 and received his PhD there in 1974. He worked as chief historian of the Japanese Ministry of Finance between 1956 and 1976 and during this period from 1963 to 1965 he was also a research assistant at Harvard University. After resigning his post at the Finance Min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 In Japan
Events in the year 1993 in Japan. It corresponds to Heisei 5 (平成5年)) in the Japanese calendar. Incumbents * Emperor: Akihito * Prime Minister: Kiichi Miyazawa ( L–Hiroshima) until August 9, Hosokawa Morihiro ( JNP–Kumamoto) * Chief Cabinet Secretary: Yōhei Kōno (L–Kanagawa) until August 9, Masayoshi Takemura ( NPH–Shiga) * Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Ryōhachi Kusaba * President of the House of Representatives: Yoshio Sakurauchi (L–Shimane) until June 18, Takako Doi ( S–Hyōgo) from August 6 * President of the House of Councillors: Bunbē Hara (L–Tokyo) * Diet sessions: 126th (regular, January 22 to June 18), 127th (special, August 5 to August 28), 128th (extraordinary, September 17 to 1994, January 29) Governors *Aichi Prefecture: Reiji Suzuki *Akita Prefecture: Kikuji Sasaki *Aomori Prefecture: Masaya Kitamura *Chiba Prefecture: Takeshi Numata *Ehime Prefecture: Sadayuki Iga *Fukui Prefecture: Yukio Kurita *Fukuoka Prefecture: Hachiji Okuda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heisei Period
The is the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of Emperor Emeritus Akihito from 8 January 1989 until his abdication on 30 April 2019. The Heisei era started on 8 January 1989, the day after the death of the Emperor Hirohito, when his son, Akihito, acceded to the throne as the 125th Emperor. In accordance with Japanese customs, Hirohito was posthumously renamed "Emperor Shōwa" on 31 January 1989. Thus, 1989 corresponds to Shōwa 64 until 7 January, and from 8 January. The Heisei era ended on 30 April 2019 (Heisei 31), with the abdication of Akihito from the Chrysanthemum Throne. It was succeeded by the Reiwa era as then-crown prince Naruhito ascended the throne on 1 May midnight local time. History and meaning On 7 January 1989, at 07:55 AM JST, the Grand Steward of Japan's Imperial Household Agency, Shōichi Fujimori, announced Emperor Hirohito's death at 6:33 AM JST, and revealed details about his cancer for the first time. Shortly after the dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreign Relations Of Post-war Japan
Foreign may refer to: Government * Foreign policy, how a country interacts with other countries * Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in many countries ** Foreign Office, a department of the UK government ** Foreign office and foreign minister * United States state law, a legal matter in another state Science and technology * Foreign accent syndrome, a side effect of severe brain injury * Foreign key, a constraint in a relational database Arts and entertainment * Foreign film or world cinema, films and film industries of non-English-speaking countries * Foreign music or world music * Foreign literature or world literature * ''Foreign Policy'', a magazine Music * "Foreign", a song by Jessica Mauboy from her 2010 album ''Get 'Em Girls'' * "Foreign" (Trey Songz song), 2014 * "Foreign", a song by Lil Pump from the album ''Lil Pump'' Other uses * Foreign corporation, a corporation that can do business outside its jurisdiction * Foreign language, a language not spoken by the people of a ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comfort Women
Comfort women or comfort girls were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II. The term "comfort women" is a translation of the Japanese '' ianfu'' (慰安婦), which literally means "comforting, consoling woman." Estimates vary as to how many women were involved, with most historians settling somewhere in the range of 50,000–200,000; the exact numbers are still being researched and debated. Most of the women were from occupied countries, including Korea, China, and the Philippines. Women who were used for military "comfort stations" also came from Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaya, Manchukuo, Taiwan (then a Japanese dependency), the Dutch East Indies, Portuguese Timor, New Guinea and other Japanese-occupied territories. Stations were located in Japan, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaya, Thailand, Burma, New Guinea, Hong Kong, Macau, and French Indochina. A smaller nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diary Of A Japanese Military Brothel Manager
''Diary of a Japanese Military Comfort Station Manager'' is a book of diaries written by a clerk who worked in Japanese "comfort stations", where the Japanese military trafficked women and girls into sexual slavery, in Burma and Singapore during World War II. The author, a Korean businessman, kept a daily diary between 1922 and 1957. The diaries were discovered by historian An Byeong-jik in 2012 and published in South Korea in 2013. The ''Diary of a Japanese Military Comfort Station Manager'' is regarded as a credible contemporary document on the workings of Japan's comfort women system. The diary sheds light on the lives of women who worked in "comfort stations" and the relationship between comfort station managers and the Japanese military. Background The author of the diary is identified only by the surname Park.An Beyong-jik, ‘はじめに’ in Parkビルマ・シンガポールの従軍慰安所 (日本語仮訳) translation supervised by Hori Kazuo and Kimura Kan with c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi War Crimes And Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group
The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group is a United States government interagency group, which is tasked with locating, identifying, inventorying, and recommending for declassification classified U.S. records relating to Nazi German and Imperial Japanese war crimes. The group was created by the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act (NWCDA), passed in 1998, and the Japanese Imperial Government Disclosure Act of 2000 (JIGDA). The Interagency Working Group (IWG) has declassified an estimated 8 million pages of documents from the Office of Strategic Services, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Army intelligence. The group issued three reports to Congress between 1999 and 2007. Some of the declassified documents center on reports of the Japanese exploitation of 'comfort women' before and during World War II, and the FBI and CIA's investigations of Adolf Hitler's possible survival of the war. History The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murayama Statement
The Murayama Statement (村山談話, ''Murayama Danwa'') was a political statement released by former Prime Minister of Japan Tomiichi Murayama on August 15, 1995, officially titled "On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the War's End" (戦後50周年の終戦記念日にあたっての村山内閣総理大臣談話, ''Sengo 50 Shūnen no Shūsen Kinenbi Niatatte no Murayama Naikaku-sōri-daijin Danwa''). It synthesized the position of the Japanese government on historical recognition and reconciliation with Asia and other nations subjected to Japanese colonialism, primarily involving China, Korea, Singapore as well as the rest of Southeast Asia. It recognized the judgements of war tribunals prescribed in Article 11 of the San Francisco Peace Treaty. In this way, the Murayama Statement played a significant role in both the reconciliation of war issues as well as the shift in both domestic and international perception of Japan. Background Japanese Imperialism and War Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan–South Korea Joint Declaration Of 1998
Japan-South Korea Joint Declaration: A new Japan - Korea Partnership towards the Twenty-first Century (Japanese: 日韓共同宣言 - 21世紀に向けた新たな日韓パートナーシップ, Korean: 한일공동선언 - 21세기를 향한 새로운 한일파트너쉽) was a declaration made on October 8, 1998, between Japanese Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi and South Korean President Kim Dae-jung to reconfirm friendly relations between Japan and South Korea, as well as declare that both countries will discuss the future of Japan-South Korea relations in order to build a new Japan-South Korea partnership. This declaration is also called the “Japan-South Korean Joint Declaration of 1998”. Background Immediate background In February 1998, when Kim Dae-jung became the president of South Korea, Japan-South Korea relations were at its worst. With both countries unable to come to an agreement about issues such as the Dokdo/Takeshima, comfort women, and fishing, relations be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Rape
Wartime sexual violence is rape or other forms of sexual violence committed by combatants during armed conflict, war, or military occupation often as spoils of war, but sometimes, particularly in ethnic conflict, the phenomenon has broader sociological motives. Wartime sexual violence may also include gang rape and rape with objects. A war crime, it is distinguished from sexual harassment, sexual assaults and rape committed amongst troops in military service. During war and armed conflict, rape is frequently used as a means of psychological warfare in order to humiliate the enemy. Wartime sexual violence may occur in a variety of situations, including institutionalized sexual slavery, wartime sexual violence associated with specific battles or massacres, as well as individual or isolated acts of sexual violence. Rape can also be recognized as genocide when it is committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a targeted group. International legal instruments for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
