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Recently released document from Japanese archive reveals evidence of Japanese military-sponsored comfort women (September 2013)

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This document is a record of a war crime trial by the government of the Netherlands in Batavia (now the Indonesian capital Jakarta).  The document describes in detail how Japanese military officers took 35 Dutch women who were detained at concentration camps in Semarang on the Island of Java and forced them to serve as sex slaves at four camps in the state.  This document was supposed to be among the proof that prompted a 1993 statement by then Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono,  in which Japan acknowledged and apologized for its military’s involvement in the sex slavery.  For more information, see:  http://www.alpha-canada.org/historical-issues/released-document-shows-japans-forced-mobilization-of-comfort-women.

EditorialHas the Japanese Government Apologized for the Atrocities Japan Inflicted in Asia during WWII?

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You often hear from Japanese politicians that the Japanese government has already apologized many times for the massive and inhumane atrocities that the Japanese Imperial Army inflicted all over Asia during WWII.  So they asked “Why is another apology necessary?  How many apologies do you need before it is enough?”  For example, they point to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent statement on not revising the 1993 Kono Statement on Comfort Women (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/15/world/asia/japan-prime-minister-says-he-will-not-revise-1993-apology-to-wartime-prostitutes.html?_r=0).

If you look even just slightly deeper into this issue, you will come to the undoubtable conclusion that even though almost 69 years have elapsed since the end of WWII, Japan has never offered a meaningful official apology.

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