more "Comfort Women" controversy

[DrLeftover]

Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto is an outspoken populist who has often stirred controversy.

"Anyone can understand that the system of comfort women was necessary to provide respite for high-strung, rough and tumble crowd of men risking their lives under a storm of bullets," Hashimoto told reporters on Monday.

"At the time, it was a necessary system to maintain military discipline."

Historians estimate that as many as 200,000 so-called comfort women were forced into sexual slavery in the Imperial Japanese Army's brothels before and during World War Two.

China, where bitter memories of Japan's wartime aggression run deep, denounced the remarks.

"The forced recruitment of comfort women was a serious crime of Japanese militarism at the time of World War Two. This is an affront to human dignity and a major human rights problem," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/14/us-japan-comfortwomen-idUSBRE94D0E720130514

 

[Evil Eye]

They just keep going on about this... You'd think they'd have other things to talk about. After all, they did the whole official apology thing.

 

[Andrew Darmac]

China talking about human's rights issues?

(snickers)

 

[DrLeftover]

China talking about human's rights issues?

(snickers)

Of course, they do it all the time.

Talk about the human rights abuses by others that is.

 

[DrLeftover]

This one won't go away either:

Jul 8, 2013

OSAKA – Three Chinese former “comfort women” plan to demand that the Osaka Bar Association take disciplinary action against Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto over his remarks apparently attempting to justify the Japanese military’s use of sex slaves, sources said Monday.

The women, who are all in their 80s living in China’s Shanxi province, sent a protest letter last month to the Osaka Municipal Government, demanding that Hashimoto apologize and retract his remarks.

Hashimoto said in May that the comfort women, Japan’s euphemism for the wartime sex slaves, were “necessary” to maintain discipline among Japan’s soldiers. The sources said the women will tell the bar association they were damaged by the Japanese army and feel strong anger about Hashimoto’s remarks, which defended the Japanese military’s actions.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/08/national/comfort-women-take-on-hashimoto/