8,700 Japanese consrvative wingnuts have filed suit agianst the Asahi Shinbun over a series of articles published in the 1980's and 1990's about Confort Women which is just a substitute for forced prostitution by the Japanese Imprial army.
The 18 articles were formally retracted last year.
According to the suit filed with the Tokyo District Court, the plaintiffs, including researchers, journalists and lawmakers, demanded that ¥10,000 in compensation be paid to each person, arguing the major daily “damaged Japanese people’s personal rights and honor.”
It also demands the paper run an ad to apologize for “spreading erroneous facts to international society.”Comfort Women
The left-leaning daily withdrew the 18 stories last August because they focused on a man named Seiji Yoshida, who claimed to have participated in rounding up females for use as sex slaves by the Japanese military.
were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II.[1][2][3] The name "comfort women" is a translation of the Japanese euphemism ianfu (慰安婦) and the similar Korean term wianbu (慰安婦).[4][5] Ianfu is a euphemism for shōfu (娼婦) whose meaning is "prostitute(s)".[6]Estimates vary as to how many women were involved, with numbers ranging from as low as 20,000[7] to as high as 360,000 to 410,000, in Chinese sources;[8] the exact numbers are still being researched and debated.[9] Many of the women were from occupied countries, including Korea, China, and the Philippines,[10] although women from Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan (then a Japanese dependency), Indonesia (then the Dutch East Indies), East Timor (then Portuguese Timor),[11][12] and other Japanese-occupied territories were used for military "comfort stations". Stations were located in Japan, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, then Malaya, Thailand, Burma, New Guinea, Hong Kong, Macau, and French Indochina.[13] A smaller number of women of European origin from the Netherlands and Australia were also involved.Leading the charge is proessfor emeritus Shoichi Watanabe at Sophia university in Tokyo who also denies that the Nanjing massacure occured. I guess having a wingnut professor gives some creddence to the crazies who wouldn't know historical fact if it bit them in the ass.
According to testimony, young women from countries in Imperial Japanese custody were abducted from their homes. In many cases, women were also lured with promises of work in factories or restaurants; once recruited, the women were incarcerated in comfort stations in foreign lands.[14]
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