Prof. Dr. NISHIHARA Renta von der Anglikanischen Kirche in Japan, auch Mitglied des Zentralkomitees des ÖRK/WCC bericchtet von der Begegnung in der Offiziellen Residenz des japanischen Ministerpräsidenten am 4. August 2014.
Aus den vorgesehenen 10 Mnuten wurden dann 20 Minuten. Dr. CHANG überreichte die beiden Dokumente "Towards a Nuclear-free World" und "On Reinterpretationof Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution". 
Wir geben hier den gesamten Bericht wieder.

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"Trostfrauen", "Comfort Women"

KOREA VERBAND e.V.
Veranstaltungshinweis

Überwindung der Scham für die Zukunft der Frauen

Eine der ehemaligen „Trostfrauen“ besucht vom 12.-24. August Deutschland
LEE Ok-seon reist aus Überzeugung um den halben Globus, um über ihre schrecklichen Erfahrungen zu berichten: Sie wurde im Alter von 14 Jahren durch das japanische Militär im Zweiten Weltkrieg sexuell versklavt, gefoltert und unfruchtbar gemacht. Ihr diesjähriger Aufenthalt in Berlin, Dresden, Ulm und München wird eine der letzten Reisen für die 87 Jährige aus Südkorea sein. 

Die AG Trostfrauen des Korea-Verband e.V. lädt alle Interessierte ein LEE Ok-seon auf ihrer Reise zu begegnen. Hintergrund: LEE Ok-Seon war eine von ca. 200.000 Mädchen und jungen Frauen, die während des Asien-Pazifik-Krieges (1937-1945) vom japanischen Militär aus ihrer Heimat verschleppt und zur Sexsklaverei gezwungen wurden. Diese Frauen wurden offiziell als „Trostfrauen“ bezeichnet, welche den japanischen Soldaten durch ihre sexuellen Dienste „Trost“ spenden sollten. Nach der Kapitulation ließ das japanische Militär die Verschleppten in der Fremde zurück. Erst 2000 konnte LEE Ok-Seon aus China in ihre Heimat Südkorea zurückkehren, in der sie für tot erklärt worden war.

"Trostfrauen", "Comfort Women"

Vom Korea Council erreicht uns folgender Brief und das Programm für den Monat August.

The Second International Memorial Day for the “comfort women”

is coming up. Here the Korean Council briefly shares our action plan for the day. Various events will be held in Seoul and other local cities.

First of all, following the delivery to the UN Human Rights Council, the Korean Council will deliver first gathered petitions (over 1.5 million) of the „100 Million Signatures Campaign“ to the Japanese Embassy during the Wednesday Demonstration. As for the domestic activities in Korea, we will inform you as soon as we receive all the plans from domestic groups. We are aware that some of you will take solidarity actions to celebrate the anniversary of the end of the war. Please share your action plans for the same cause and spirit! Your solidarity messages or statements are also welcomed. Our statement will be sent to you as soon as it is prepared.

Our various actions will be a new chance to draw attentions to recover the justice for “comfort women” against recent denials and brutal speeches by Japan. We send our deep solidarity to all of you.

Magosaki Ukeru 
Japan's Collective Self-Defense and American Strategic Policy:
Everything Starts from the US-Japan Alliance

Translated and Introduced by John Junkerman

This article presents an interview with a former top official of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs that was conducted immediately after the adoption of a Cabinet resolution that changed the government's long-standing position: that Article 9 of Japan's Constitution prohibited the country from engaging in collective self-defense (military action in support of an ally that has come under enemy attack).

WCC - News,  19. Juni 2014

Church leaders meet and agree to advance peace on Korean Peninsula

In a first meeting since 2009 and since the 2013 appointment of a new leader for the Korea Christian Federation (KCF) of North Korea, an international group of church leaders from 34 countries, including North and South Korea, met near Geneva, Switzerland, to seek ways to advance reconciliation and peace on the peninsula.

The group agreed in a communiqué released at the end of their meeting on Thursday to seek new initiatives to advance peace, such as increasing visits between churches in North and South Korea, inviting younger people around the world to become involved in working for peace on the peninsula and calling for an annual day of prayer for peace on the peninsula.

The group also recommends promoting annual ecumenical meetings and consultations involving Christians from both countries in conjunction with the day of prayer.

Eine Bitte aus Japan

TO ALL who are concerned about the Abe administration's nationalistic policy
Let's together join in a lawsuit against the Abe Shinzo's officially visiting the Yasukuni War Shrine in violation of the Constitution.

The Group Supporting Lawsuit Claiming against Offi cial Visits by Prime Minister Abe; Tokyo

On 26th in December 2013, the Prime Minister ABE Shinzo visited the Yasukuni Shrine as a Japanese Prime Minister and prayed to the war gods who had been the war dead and honored collectively.
The Prime Minister Abe rode on his official car with the formal suite and signed on the visiting book as "The Japanese Prime Minister ABE Shinzo" when he arrived at the Yasukuni Shrine. After that, he walked into the heart of the shrine and prayed to the war gods. This act is clearly identified as officially visiting and breached the rule of secular politics which is stipulated in Article 20 of the Japanese Constitution. We need to raise our voices to criticize against his visiting by way of our specific actions:  the lawsuit against Abe's visiting the Yasukuni Shrine.   Lesen Sie bitte hier weiter

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Am 19.12.2013 ist seit der Präsidentschaftswahl gerade ein Jahr verstrichen, ein Jahr voller Enttäuschungen und Rückkehr zu politischen Methoden der 70er Jahre. "Now in Korea" befasst sich mit der derzeitigen Situation in Korea. 

The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 8, No. 1, February 24, 2014.
Update February 24, 2014.
Mit freundlicher Erlaubnis von Japan Focus. (Dieser Essay ist notwendig zum Verständnis der derzeitigen Situation in Südkorea.)

Distorting Democracy: Politics by Public Security in Contemporary South Korea1
[UPDATE] 民主主義を歪める当代の韓国公安政治
Jamie Doucette and Se-Woong Koo

Since our article appeared, there have been several developments that demand the reader’s attention. The scale of electoral interference was found to have been more extensive than we originally reported. Last December, prosecutors investigating the case disclosed that the National Intelligence Service (NIS) had produced over a period of two years leading up to the election some 1900 online posts and approximately 22 million Tweets with political or election-related content—roughly 30% of all election-related content that was generated on Twitter. This was circulated by agents of the NIS’s psychological warfare team and hired contractors.

The trial of former NIS chief Won Sei-hoon, who stands accused of overseeing the spread of messages favorable to the ruling Saenuri Party, is due to begin in the near future. On the other hand, on February 6 Kim Yong-pan, the former Seoul Metropolitan Police chief, was acquitted on the charge of ordering a cover-up of the NIS’s criminal activities after the court deemed the evidence insufficient to establish his guilt, ignoring the testimony of a key whistleblower in its entirety. The conduct of the trial and its verdict were condemned by members of the legal group MINBYUN (Lawyers for a Democratic Society) which criticized the police for limiting the scope of their initial analysis into NIS tweets and failing to fully investigate the online activity of NIS agent Kim Ha-young, the woman discovered on the eve of the presidential election to be spreading pro-Saenuri tweets and social media posts from her studio apartment.

On February 17 the United Progressive Party (UPP)’s left-nationalist lawmaker Lee Seok-ki was found guilty of sedition, plotting an armed rebellion, and National Security Law (NSL) violation based on a transcript from meetings held by Lee and his associates. He and his lawyers have vowed to appeal the verdict. The evidence against Lee, especially the transcript originally circulated by the NIS, was called into question in the course of the legal proceeding, as several original recordings on which the transcript was based proved missing and the transcript itself appeared to substitute extremist language in place of more neutral words. The court, however, largely accepted the case as presented by the NIS and prosecutors. Lee’s conviction on the charge of NSL violation was deemed especially troubling by progressive commentators as it relied heavily on the fact that Lee and his associates had sung “revolutionary” songs from North Korea.