Historians believe Japan forced up to 200,000 Chinese and Korean women to be sex slaves during WWII. Women who survived — and weren't shamed into silence – have described being recruited for labor, then beaten and raped by as many as 40 Japanese officers a day.
The Japanese government still won't admit these women were actually kidnapped and raped. And now Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto has decided to give his take on the atrocities: rape and kidnapping were "necessary" to sate the lust and harness the virility of Japan's soldiers.
“Anyone can understand that the
system of comfort women was necessary to provide respite for a group of high-strung,
rough and tumble crowd of men braving their lives under a storm of bullets,”
Hashimoto said. He also questioned whether the women were really coerced and
claimed comfort women were part of “a necessary system to maintain military
discipline."
This is a slap in the face
to the women who went through this ordeal, a cowardly move from a government
that waited until most of these women were dead before broaching the topic at
all. Please, join us in condemning Mayor Hashimoto's atrocious commentary
and calling on the Japanese to admit blame and begin compensation talks.
PETITION TO JAPANESE GOVERNMENT: We condemn the rape
apologist statements made by Mayor Toru Hasimoto on Japan's "comfort
women," and call on government leaders to admit their blame and begin
compensation talks immediately.
Click here to sign -- it just takes a second.
They kill whales and have
brutalized Chinese, Korean and European women, all under the name of cultural practice or
to maintain discipline of their soldiers. All this stems from the now out of
date and old fashioned belief by the Japanese that they are the superior
race on planet earth! How times have changed. Let these issues be exposed
to all to know and to condemn them.
Murray Kibblewhite
Author
The Minke
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