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Interesting. The conservative Prime Minister of Japan is now challenging American school textbooks which have the bad taste to mention the existence of the Korean and Chinese "comfort women" Japan's military made use of during WW2. Mr. Prime Minister, in the face of witnesses like Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women and other books, you are not doing your country a favor with this...
Jan 30, 2015 02:15PM

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message 1: by Jan-Maat (new)

Jan-Maat Has Japanese society really not accepted what happened in their history in the period to the end of WWII?


message 2: by Steve (new)

Steve Some of them have, others haven't. One of the recent P.M.s apologized for the comfort women, but the conservatives are again in power and have denied that the comfort women were forced into service...


message 3: by Praj (new)

Praj Mr. Abe! Tsk! I detest the word "settled" in the diplomatic policies.How can Japan have "settled" the issue of comfort women with apprehensive apologies merely given to the women who endured the criminality. Abe trying to put a blindfold over the historical past is mockery at its best.


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