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Culture [We Met, and Now We Are Healing Together] Interview with Ahn Hae-ryong and Ito Takashi

The photo exhibition , in which the victims of the Japanese Military ‘Comfort Women’ (called ‘Comfort Women’) from South Korea and North Korea join together, was held from March 6 to 11 at Exhibition Hall 2 of the Insa Art Center.

Ahn Hae-ryong

Activism For “Comfort Women” Litigation with Global Citizens and Future Generations!

Reflecting on and exploring how to record, remember, and carry forward the history of the “Comfort Women” beyond the framework of legal remedies.

Editorial Team of Webzine <Kyeol>

Culture Meeting “Comfort Women” Victims’ First “Art Teacher” - Interview with Artist Kyung-Shin Lee, Author of “Flowers Unbloomed”

The first “art teacher” of the “Comfort Women” survivors who live in the House of Sharing. I met and listened to the story of artist Kyung-Shin Lee, the author of “Flowers Unbloomed,” which contains the behind story of the painting class she conducted for five years from 1993.

Purplay Kang Purm

Current Issue What is the extent of the legal binding force of the Korea-Japan Agreement of December 28, 2015 on the “comfort women” issue? <Part 2>

Nam Kijeong (Institute for Japanese Studies, Seoul National University)/ Cho Yanghyeon (Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security)/ Cho Sihyeon (The Center of Historical Truth and Justice)

Editorial Team of Webzine <Kyeol>

Other To build responsible dialogue between the two countries to clarify the truth

Panel: Nam Kijeong (Institute for Japanese Studies, Seoul National University)/ Cho Yanghyeon (Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security)/ Cho Sihyeon (The Center of Historical Truth and Justice)

Editorial Team of Webzine <Kyeol>

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Current Issue Law, Myth, and the Long Work of Reform

Drawing on legal reforms across different countries and cultural contexts, the author, a legal scholar, examines how rape myths continue to shape sexual assault laws and legal outcomes and proposes measures for reform.

Ramona Albin

Culture An Answer Possible Only in This Moment

Exploring the “Comfort Women” through Miji Ih’s three-part project Münder and the exhibition Mangshitori

Miji Ih

Historical Memory How Can Perpetrators Bear Responsibility?

Testimony and publishing activities concerning wartime sexual violence and “Comfort Women” carried out by the Association of Returnees from China (Chukiren), which atoned for their perpetrators’ actions in postwar Japanese society.

Kim Su-yong

A World Free from Exploitation: A Conversation with Joanna Ewart-James of Freedom United

Activism A World Free from Exploitation

In this conversation, Freedom United Executive Director Joanna Ewart-James and Kyeol examine how modern slavery is sustained by social and institutional systems, how collective action can drive meaningful change, and how historical awareness can deepen our understanding of injustices that persist today.

Joanna Ewart-James

Culture Art as Witness

What can art accomplish beyond aesthetics? Randy Jayne Rosenberg examines how it can preserve marginalized histories, support survivor testimony, and move audiences from observation toward ethical responsibility.

Randy Jayne Rosenberg

Activism Inside the Asia Pacific Peace Museum in Toronto

The Asia Pacific Peace Museum in Toronto, one of the few museums outside Asia dedicated to World War II in Asia, offers education that encourages critical reflection on war, memory, and peace.

Flora Mei-Ling Chong

“Changing the Culture That Makes Violence Possible”: Asian Women’s Shelter on Advocacy, Trafficking, Public Awareness, and Global Gender Justice – Interview with Orchid Pusey (2)

Activism “Changing the Culture That Makes Violence Possible”: Interview with Orchid Pusey of Asian Women's Shelter (2)

Asian Women’s Shelter’s executive director shares how the organization began and how it works to serve “not either/or, but all” communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Orchid Pusey

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