| O Sonfa | |||||||
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| Kanji | 呉 善花 | ||||||
| Kana | オ・ソンファ | ||||||
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| Hangul | 오선화 | ||||||
| Hanja | 吳善花 | ||||||
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O Sonfa (Japanese:呉 善花; オ・ソンファ, born 15 September 1956),[1][2] also known by her Korean nameOh Seon-hwa (Korean:오선화), was a professor in the School of International Relations atTakushoku University in Tokyo. She is currently a professor of International Relations atTokyo International University.[3] She is also active as an author and journalist inJapan. She is a critic in many fields such as current issues, history, and culture, particularly in East Asian Countries.[4]
Originally fromJeju Island, South Korea, she left for Japan in 1983.[4] She received a BA degree fromDaito Bunka University and an MA degree from the Graduate School of North American Studies atTokyo University of Foreign Studies. She went on tonaturalise as a Japanese citizen.
In 1998, she lost her South Korean nationality as she had acquired Japanese nationality in 1991.[5] In 2007 and 2013, she was refused entry to South Korea.[6][7]
She has since been a source of controversy in Korea due to her open criticism of not only the South Korean government, but Korean culture as a whole. After the 2014sinking of MVSewol disaster, she described Koreans as "having no patriotism and completely selfish", and argued that Japan should not try to reconcile its differences with South Korea.[4]
O denies that "comfort women", a euphemism for Korean women who are considered by international consensus to have been forced prostitutes during World War II, were forced to work at all.[8]
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