Thomas J. Ward serves as Professor of Peace and Development at HJ International Graduate School for Peace and Public Leadership in New York City. He is co-author of Park Statue Politics—World War II Comfort Women Statues in America (E-International Relations 2019), and was a 2013 Fulbright Scholar and a 2016 Foreign Ministry Visiting Research Scholar at Taipei’ s Institute of Modern History. His books and articles have been published by Paragon House, East Asia Quarterly, the International Journal of World Peace, Journal of Asia Pacific Studies: Japan Focus and The Washington Times.