Friday the Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announced that the government of Shinzo Abe would construct a secret committee to study the governments 1993 apology for Japan's use of Comfort Women by the imperial army during World War II.
Japanese politicians within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party aren't just attempting to revise or deny history they literally want to quash it. The logic behind this comes from a belief that those testimonies given by the comfort women were delivered in secret and cannot be held as being truthful or historically accurate. Further they are convinced that none of 200,000 women were forced into prostitution, but volunteered.
Japan's ultra nationalists will never accept the crimes committed by the imperial army before and during World War II no matter the evidence.
Japanese politicians within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party aren't just attempting to revise or deny history they literally want to quash it. The logic behind this comes from a belief that those testimonies given by the comfort women were delivered in secret and cannot be held as being truthful or historically accurate. Further they are convinced that none of 200,000 women were forced into prostitution, but volunteered.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye has warned Japan it will only bring isolation on itself if it reviews a statement acknowledging its wartime use of sex slaves.
She called on Japan to embrace "truth and reconciliation".
Japan apologised in 1993 to survivors of the many thousands of women who were forced into army brothels.
On Friday Tokyo said it would set up a panel to review the evidence on which that apology was based.
Some conservatives in Japan have claimed that the women, known euphemistically as "comfort women", were prostitutes - something fiercely denied by the women and by Japan's neighbours.
Japan's ultra nationalists will never accept the crimes committed by the imperial army before and during World War II no matter the evidence.
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