Japanese comfort women and the apology they are not getting.

The use of comfort women during World War II is a painful history and reminder of the evil nature of war itself. It is a history that has been denied, lied about and covered up by the government of Japan. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a few weeks ago denied that there was any coercive acts done to comfort women used and abused during World War II. Women’s activist were outraged.
Now Shinzo admits that it happened, but says there is no proof that the government or military were involved.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apologized for Japan’s sexual enslavement of women during World War Two in remarks to a parliamentary committee on Monday. Abe’s denials earlier this month that the Japanese government and military had forced women from neighboring Asian countries into sex slavery provoked sharp criticism at home and abroad.
Prompted by Communist parliamentarian Haruko Yoshikawa, Abe told a parliamentary budget appropriation committee that he would adhere to a 1993 statement of apology to sex slavery victims issued by then chief cabinet secretary Yohei Kono.
Abe said, “I express my sympathy for the hardships they suffered and offer my apology for the situation they found themselves in.�
However, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Hakubun Shimomura, one of Abe’s close aides, told reporters Monday, “There were military nurses and embedded journalists but no ‘embedded’ comfort women. It is true that there were comfort women. I believe some parents may have sold their daughters. But it does not mean the Japanese Army was involved.�

Sorry I don’t know much about Shinzo Abe and I am not formally schooled in Japanese government, this to me seems cowardly and a bad move with respect to PR. What are you going to tell me next, the Holocaust and slavery were unfortunate, but we have no one to blame? Give me a break.
Please check out LABAN! Fight for Comfort Women. They have tons of info and press releases following this debacle. And let us not forget that the use of ‘comfort women’ is indeed one of the most heinous crimes of this century. The forced rape and mutilation of 200, 000 women during WWII can not be denied and the women that have survived, must see some justice.