A Japanese journalist whose employer received bomb threats over his reporting about the country’s wartime past, said today he was suing a magazine and a university professor over allegations he faked stories. Takashi Uemura, a former reporter for the Asahi newspaper, has been attacked as a “fabricator” and “traitor” since he wrote two articles in 1991 about women trafficked to Japanese military brothels across Asia during World War II. The Asahi in August declared some of its coverage of the...
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