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San Francisco Chronicle
Editorial Japan's shame Friday, March 9, 2007 SHINZO ABE is the latest Japanese prime minister to deny a disgraceful truth about his country's history: Some 200,000 women from China, Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines were forced to become sex slaves for the Japanese military during the World War II era. Japanese records and tearful testimonials from surviving women have amply proved the case. A Japanese minister even issued an apology in 1993 that amounted to a government acknowledgement. Yet Abe, in a bid to mollify an obdurate fringe in Japanese politics, has shamelessly waffled. Last week, he denied the women were coerced. Then, he backpedaled by saying that the 1993 apology stood, but he wanted a new inquiry, launched by party insiders, not historians. The cause for this evasiveness stems partly because U.S. Rep. Mike Honda, a San Jose Democrat, is pushing a nonbinding measure that asks Japan to own up "in a clear and unequivocal way for its Imperial armed forces' coercion" of so-called "comfort women,'' who were forced into military-run brothels. Honda's initiative has a strong chance of passing, now that Democrats control Congress. The issue comes with overtones. Japan needs to right a historic wrong to sustain leadership in the region, amid rising trade with China and sensitive talks with North Korea. China, which has long resented Japan's foot-dragging on the topic, is playing it cool, leaving the outcome for Japan to explain. These calculations mean nothing to the pain of the surviving women, now in their 80s. Some were kidnapped, others were tricked into the brothels where they were forced to have sex with as many as 20 soldiers a day. These women deserve to hear directly from Prime Minister Abe. This article appeared on page B - 10 of the San Francisco Chronicle
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