Making new year’s resolutions and writing them down in my diary was one of the joys I cherished while growing up. I stopped making new year’s resolutions after going through two major surgeries (open heart and brain) in my late twenties because it seemed pointless to make yearly resolutions in the face of what I saw as the precariousness of life. Daily and monthly survival was what I was hoping to sustain. Now many years have passed, and I have lived a relatively healthy life, though the weekly hospital visit has been a hassle. More >
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On January 8, 1992, former “comfort women,” concerned individuals, and human rights and feminist activists from various organizations held a protest in Seoul, the capital city of the Republic of Korea (South Korea), during the state visit of Japan’s prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa. They demanded the Japanese government’s official apology to victims-survivors for Japan’s military sexual slavery (euphemistically called “comfort women”) during World War II. Since 1992, what has become known as the Wednesday Demonstration has been held every Wednesday in various locations in South Korea. More >