This time they're using Japanese academics to dispute the reality of "comfort women" - women, mainly Korean, coerced into prostitution by the Japanese army during WWII. A less genteel term would be "sex slaves."
A group of Japanese historians is urging McGraw-Hill, the American publisher, to “correct” a college textbook that they say contains “many erroneous expressions” about sex slaves used by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
Saying that the women were simply prostitutes, the group is taking up an official Japanese effort to win support for its perspective on the euphemistically known “comfort women,” a particularly sensitive part of its wartime legacy.
“There are women in Amsterdam who sit in windows displaying their services and in Japan we have Soapland, which is part of the sex trade,” said Ikuhiko Hata, a Harvard- and Columbia-educated emeritus professor at Nippon University, likening the comfort women to those working in the red light districts in the Dutch and Japanese capitals.
“Prostitutes have existed at every time in human history, so I do not believe that comfort women are a special category,” Hata told foreign journalists in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Yeah, those women were just ordinary Korean hookers, the Rape of Nanking never happened and the United States started the war with Japan. We have this thing we like to use on rogue states. It's called "sanctions." Isn't it time we introduced Japan to the concept?
I know very well this history of Korea. Korea was occupied from 1904 until 1945. Families tried to get their 16 year old daughters married off so the Japanese could not take them as sex slaves for the Japanese Military. I met eight of these women of which, I believe there are only 2 left alive at this time. What the Japanese did to Koreans was awful. Make no mistake, Koreans taught the Japanesew how to build. I lived in Korea from late 1990´s till 2011 and taught Korean History in English. Anyong
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