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Originally Posted by enigma2
Fellas, I really don't care about these 'tests' can we get back on topic.
The actions taken 60 years ago could have a negative impact on the part of the world I live in. Can we get back to that?
Luke, I'm concerned that the Japanese government, along with past governments, are still refusing to acknowledge their treatment of women during WWII. An Australian woman has been giving testimony before a Congressional hearing, along with many Korean women, about her use as a 'comfort woman'. She has stated that she was a young virgin at the time of her capture and was raped and made use of by the Japanese occupiers.
It is very brave of her to make this statement, in fact, she kept quiet about it for many years. However, when she heard that Japan was denying that they had used captured, or local, women for this purpose, she decided she must also speak out.
We can only hope that the US brings its influence to bear on the Japanese government and the atrocities committed by Japan during WWII will finally be acknowledged.
Apparently, the Japanese people are not told about these atrocities. The building of the Burma railroad by Australian and British prisoners of war is a particular disgrace.
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Japanese military sexual slaves are sponsored by the Japanese government and military, organized by many Japanese companies and organizations. Koreans, Chinese including both from mainland and Taiwan, Philipinos and some Europeans and Australians are forced to serve the Japanese soldiers in military brothels. One previous Japanese prime minister apologized verbally, but refused to set government fundings to compensate those still-alive sexual slaves.
The current prime minister whose grandfather is a confirmed war criminal refuse to acknowledge that Japan forced those women as sexual slaves and he said there is not enough hard evidence to prove that those women are not voluntary sexual slaves. Those war time documents, if not destroyed by Japanese, all go to America, and who knows if the "hard evidence" is not listed in the CIA archives representing the friendship between America and Japanese Fascists.