Bashed and threatened for months by right-wingers and history revisionists, a former Asahi Shimbun reporter made a rare appearance in Tokyo Friday to file a libel suit against a major publisher and a noted scholar of Korean studies.
Takashi Uemura is seeking ?16.5 million in damages from Bungeishunju Ltd. and Tsutomu Nishioka, a professor of Korean studies at Tokyo Christian University, saying they erroneously claimed he fabricated stories about ¡°comfort women,¡± Japan¡¯s euphemism for the thousands of women who were forced into Japan¡¯s wartime military brothels
At a news conference, Uemura said their ¡°unfounded slander¡± prompted some anonymous nationalists to threaten his employer, and violated the privacy of his family by posting a photo of his daughter on the Internet.
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