Seeking Justice—or At Least the Truth—for ‘Comfort Women’ | Portside
Seeking Justice—or At Least the Truth—for ‘Comfort Women’
Not only has Japan failed to compensate the surviving comfort women,
but Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has led a nationalist campaign to
adamantly deny Japan’s shameful criminal
past, has revised history textbooks that previously contained
information about Japan’s military sex slaves and is also threatening to
revise the Kono Statement.
https://portside.org/2014-06-29/seeking-justice—or-least-truth—-‘comfort-women’
Women carry portraits commemorating Koreans who were made sex slaves by the Japanese during World War II. Seoul.
Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
