Takashi Uemura (academic)

Uemura ran a story dated August 11, 1991 in the Asahi newspaper, which profiled a former comfort woman based on a tape-recorded testimony. The identity of the woman was withheld from Uemura at the time, but later it transpired that she was Kim Hak-sun. Kim disclosed her identity in a press conference she held 3 days after this article. The precise wording in Uemura's article was as follows: "she was taken away under the name of the 'women volunteer corps'" and was a "Korean comfort woman serving the army. Uemura followed up with another article on December 25, 1991, based on the interview of Kim Hak-sun conducted by Japanese lawyers. ==Controversy==

By 2014, Uemura had retired from the newspaper and was seeking university teaching positions. The articles Uemura had written in the 1990s about the comfort women came under fire, Critics say that these comfort women were never recruited "as a" volunteer corps in fact, Pressures and threats of harm Uemura left the Asahi Shimbun in March 2014, to pursue a second career as university lecturer. Uemura has since initiated legal proceedings over the public accusation against its publisher, the Bungeishunjū publishing company. On March 12, 2021, the Supreme Court handed down a verdict dismissing all of Uemura's appeal finally. On January 9, 2015, Uemura filed a defamation suit with the Tokyo District Court against Nishioka, then-professor of Korean studies at Tokyo Christian University, and Bungeishunjū, Ltd. (the publisher of Shūkan Bunshun) in response to the public accusations against him. ==Explanatory notes==