In the KAKEN database are listed such projects as “Research on activities involving citizens’ reconciliation of historical issues, and the possibilities thereof” (led by University of Tokyo professor Masaru Tonomura, JPY38.09 million); “Basic research in primary documents on the political and social history of wartime Korea” (led by University of Kyoto professor Naoki Mizuno, JPY17.29 million); and “Basic research for a structural analysis of the Korean general mobilization system” (led by Ritsumeikan University associate professor Yuka Anzako, JPY2.86 million). Some of these projects took one year, while others took longer.
History Wars: Japanese Taxpayers Funding Anti-Japan Activists
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