Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday that his government would not revise a landmark 1993 “comfort women” apology, and said he was “deeply pained” by the suffering of women drawn into a system of wartime brothels.
Abe, who has made similar remarks in the past, has faced criticism for his government’s plan to review what is known as the Kono statement, which acknowledged official complicity in the coercion of military sex slaves, a historical legacy that draws raw resentment in neighboring South Korea.
On Friday, Abe said that his cabinet “upholds the position on the recognition of history outlined by the previous administrations in its entirety” including the Kono statement.
“With regard to the comfort women issue, I am deeply pained to think of the comfort women who experienced immeasurable pain and suffering, a feeling I share equally with my predecessors,” he told a parliamentary committee, according to a statement issued by the ministry of foreign affairs.
Don't think for one moment they are doing this because they actually believe the Japanese imperial army forced these women in prostitution. It's being done save face, avoid an embarrassing situation, to keep from being criticized for denying history no its being done to give the impression that these ultra right wing politicians actually care. They don't.
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