Should Japan apologize for victimizing Chinese and Korean “comfort women” in World War II?
As I’ve said many times before, the Japanese have a lot to apologize for; the ‘comfort women’ are certainly one group that is due this apology. I mentioned the horrible and unconscionable treatment of the ‘comfort women’ in a past article on Helium regarding whether Japanese officials should continue to visit the Yasukuni Shrine, which is a shrine to honor Japanese war dead. Japanese politicians make very publicized visits to this shrine on a regular basis. These visits, while good P.R. to their Japanese constituents, are viewed as a slap in the face to groups like the comfort women, survivors of the Bataan death march, those civilians interred in the Philippines who were systematically starved to death, and many, many others. The Japanese created one of the worst human rights legacies in the world, surpassed at the time only by Nazi Germany.
