Given the lack of historical recognition that the Japanese are exposed to through education and media outlets why should anyone be surprised that people reject the war crimes committed by the Japanese Imperial army from the 1930's through the end of World War II.
New NHK boss says Japan's World War Two policy of forcing conquered women into brothels was "common in every country".
The head of Japan's influential public broadcaster has used his first public comments to say that Japan's World War Two policy of forcing conquered foreign women into sex slavery was "common in any country at war".
"Can we say there were none in Germany or France? It was everywhere in Europe," the AFP news agency quoted him as saying. "Comfort women [were] bad by today's morals," he added. "But this was a fact of those times."
Up to 200,000 women from Korea, China, the Philippines and elsewhere were forced into brothels for use by Japanese soldiers in territories occupied by Japan during the war, according to many mainstream historians.
The issue is a scar on contemporary relations between the affected nations, and Momii's comments are the latest to apparently dismiss or excuse the policy.
"[South] Korea's statements that Japan is the only nation that forced this are puzzling. Give us money, compensate us, they say, but since all of this was resolved by the Japan-Korea peace treaty, why are they reviving this issue? It's strange," Morii added.
The moron later tried to walk back his comments. People like Mr. Morii and the man who appointed him Shinzo Abe are in complete denial about the war crimes committed in the name of the emperor.
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