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Two dozen elderly Filipino women and their supporters protested outside the Japanese Embassy in Manila on Friday demanding a clear-cut apology and compensation from Tokyo for wartime sexual slavery.
A group of Japanese lawmakers and conservatives on Friday demanded the U.S. Congress retract a resolution criticizing Tokyo for using prostitutes at front-line brothels during World War II.
A congressional panel on Tuesday endorsed overwhelmingly a resolution urging Japan to apologize formally for coercing thousands of women to work as sex slaves for its World War II military.
Japan's abhorrent practice of enslaving women to provide sex for its troops in World War II has a little-known sequel: After its surrender — with tacit approval from the U.S. occupation authorities — Japan set up a similar "comfort women" system for American GIs.
Jan Ruff O'Herne refused to submit to the Japanese soldiers who raped her more than 60 years ago.
Japanese history education in schools - masochism or accuracy?The history of coerced suicides during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, the bloodiest of the Pacific war, is familiar to every Japanese high school student from nationally approved textbooks.
Originally published at Trans-Pacific Radio.
Fareed Zakaria Interviews Sankei Shimbun Editor on the Comfort Women IssueMany thanks to Japan Probe for bringing this one to our attention. On March 29, Fareed Zakaria interviewed Yoshihisa Komori, a Washington DC-based Editor-at-Large for Japan's Sankei Shinbun for the PBS series Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria.
Historians offer fresh evidence Japan's military forced women into brothelsEvidence submitted to the post-World War II trials of Japanese war criminals and acknowledged by the Japanese government shows its military forced Asian women into sexual slavery during the war, historians said Tuesday, citing newly unearthed documents.
Arguments have been raging back and forth over Japan's atonement and apology, or lack thereof, for wartime atrocities committed by the Japanese Imperial Army. Most recently, US Rep.
TPR News: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - No Cabinet Reshuffle, Japan and North Korea, and Abe on 'Comfort Women'Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's decision against a Cabinet reshuffle at this time, what the Prime Minister has to say about the 1993 'Kono Statement,' Japan's recent bilateral talks with North Korea in Hanoi, two economic reports from the Cabinet Office, and discover which na …
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Questioned About Abe's Stance on the 'Comfort Women' Issue at a Regular Press ConferenceThe following is a selection from a transcript of the March 9, 2007 press conference at Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where the issue of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's stance on the 1993 'Kono Statement' regarding the issue of 'comfort women' was raised by a repor …
US Rep Mike Honda to push Japan on WW2 'comfort women' issue - commentaryThe Hill newspaper reported on January 3rd that a Californian congressman is planning to introduce a resolution in the new Congress calling for Japan to formally acknowledge and accept responsibility for sexually enslaving women during World War II.
US Congressman to press for resolution to force Japan to acknowledge sex slave issueA Californian congressman is planning to pass a resolution in the new Congress calling for Japan to formally acknowledge and accept responsibility for sexually enslaving women during World War II, the Hill newspaper reported Tuesday.
Japan tells the US what to do: Seijigiri #12 - November 16, 2006: A special discussion on the Japan lobbyIn this special discussion edition of Seijigiri, Garrett and Ken discuss the 'Japan lobby' and the role it plays in influencing American politics and foreign policy.
Psyche, Science, and Society ยป Green Zone brothel followupExcerpt : Mandana Hendessi sent me this email in response to my article The Sex Lives and Sexual Frustrations of US troops in Iraq: An Ocean of Ignorance [posted with permission]:
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