Maki Kimura

Maki Kimura is a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Political Science, University College London, and Associate Lecturer at the Open University. She is the author of Unfolding the ‘Comfort Women’ Debates: Modernity, Violence, Women’s Voices (Palgrave Macmillan)

The anti-US military base struggle in Okinawa, Japan

Many visitors stay for a prolonged period, become regular visitors or even completely relocate to Okinawa, as Aihara and Kamoshita did a few years ago.

By Maki Kimura

/ 13 Feb 2016

Japan's military sexual slavery: whose agreement?

The South Korea-Japan agreement on Japan’s military sexual slavery was announced on 28 December, 2015, but it ignores the efforts by the victim-survivors movement to seek justice for their suffering.

By Maki Kimura

/ 20 Jan 2016