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I believe that suffering is suffering and humiliation is humiliation. If comfort women are going to be saved for their suffering, so should other women who were sexually abused by soldiers of any countries. American soldiers, for instance, raped 20,000 Japanese women (only reported cases)...

Tradition dies hard in Asia. It is true in South Korea too. Here's a piece of old newspaper article from one of the three major dailies in Korea, called the Tong-A Ilbo. I am unable to read Korean, but it is supposed to read that the Korean Police or the Seoul city government is looking for...

Thanks for the article, Rall. I don't think she is lying. I think she is telling the truth about her experience. I trust that Prime Minister Abe was not denying her story because that was not the point he was trying to make. What was he trying to say, then? OK, let's take another look at what...

LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS; In Myitkyina the girls were usually quartered in a large two story house (usually a school building) with a separate room for each girl. There each girl lived, slept, and transacted business. In Myitkina their food was prepared by and purchased from the "house...

The anwers to your questions are all "Yes." The point is corercion, deception, and kidnapping. If you are under the impression that the military authorities issued a directive to officiers to go out and kidnap 200,000 women and send them to the warfronts, you are wrong. That's not what happened...

Prime Minister Abe should have devoted a lot more time to making truly compassionate remarks for those who actually suffered as comfort women, or as POWs and other victims for that matter, before he defended the perpetrators' side on what he thought was factual errors in the U.S. Congress...