Japan PM Abe Denies History

Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan:
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Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, denied on Thursday that the country's' military forced women into sexual slavery during World War II, casting doubt on a past government apology. "The fact is, there is no evidence to prove there was coercion," Abe told a reporters."

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Nariaki Nakayama, chairman of a group of ruling party lawmakers that deny a Japanese government role in the forced sexual slavery:
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Some say it is useful to compare the brothels to college cafeterias run by private companies, who recruit their own staff, procure foodstuffs, and set prices," Nakayama said. "Where there's demand, businesses crop up ... but to say women were forced by the Japanese military into service is off the mark," he said. "This issue must be reconsidered, based on truth ... for the sake of Japanese honor."

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 Quotes from the International Herald Tribune Website, 1 March 2007

This has got to stop. Japanese government denials of forcing women into military sexual slavery have the same basis in ‘fact’, plus similar levels of dysfunctional morality, as Holocaust denials.

Facts are facts - IT HAPPENED. Japanese government records say so. The former victims, thousands of women from countries around the world, say so. Even former Japanese military members say so. Only politicians could be idiotic, ignorant, and racist enough to deny this.

The U.S. House of Representatives had hearings last month on this issue of Japanese WWII sexual slavery. Now they need to pass the resolution before them calling on the Japanese government to accept responsibility and apologize. No more should Japanese politicians be allowed to hide behind lies and childish historical obfuscation.

For more information, in English, please visit:

• Sharing House - http://www.nanum.org/
• Japan Policy Research Institute, Japan's Responsibility Toward Comfort Women Survivors - http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp77.html
• The Comfort Women Project - http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~soh/comfortwomen.html

or try reading:

• True Stories of the Korean Comfort Women
• The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War