Proof that the Japanese military pimped sex slaves during WWII

Last February I published an article in which I expressed dismay and consternation over the refusal of the Japanese government to acknowledge the historical fact that Japanese authorities forced “comfort women” in Japanese-occupied territories to work as sex slaves during World War II. But here, in part, is how I urged the relatively-new government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to break this imperial code of denial:

[I]t behooves Japan to formally acknowledge, accept responsibility and apologize for the systematic sexual enslavement of these women. After all, just as Germany was compelled – not only politically but also morally – to offer an official apology and commensurate compensation to victims of the Holocaust, so too Japan should recognize its political and moral duty to offer an official apology and commensurate compensation to the victims of these crimes against humanity (many of whom are still alive, thank God, to give personal and eye-witness testimony).

Indeed, I urged this reckoning upon the Japanese because I suspected it was just a matter of time before irrefutable proof exposed them not only as enablers of the pimping legacy of their predecessors but also as willful abusers of these women all over again because of their attempts to pimp them off with hush money…from a private slush fund.

Unfortunately, instead of leading his country on a redemptive path towards truth and reconciliation, Abe compounded the original sin by insisting (as reported by the Japan Times on 8 March 2007) that:

…there is no evidence that the wartime army coerced women in Japanese-occupied territories into sexual slavery.

Therefore, I was not at all surprised when the Kyodo news agency reported on Friday that:

…new documents have been found that suggest the Japanese authorities forced women to work as sex slaves during World War II.

Nevertheless, I fear that Japanese leaders have become utterly committed to their own revisionist history. These are people, after all, who provoked a still-simmering schoolyard row with China after they whitewashed from school textbooks many wartime atrocities the Japanese military committed against the Chinese people during WWII.

Therefore, instead of emulating the German government as I urged them to, Japanese leaders seem determined to emulate Holocaust deniers by continuing to deny that their war heroes ever forced women to work as sex slaves….

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