A former Asahi Shimbun newspaper reporter who wrote a story about a former Korean "comfort woman" has resigned as a part-time lecturer at a Japanese university and will start teaching at a university in South Korea next March, the Japanese university said Thursday.
Takashi Uemura, 57, will leave Hokusei Gakuen University in Hokkaido at the end of the current academic year in March and become a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Korea, which has a student exchange agreement with the university in Sapporo, it said.
During his one-year term, he will teach on the history of exchanges between Japan and South Korea once or twice a week, Hokusei Gakuen said.