Two women who were forced to work as “comfort women” (read: sex slaves) for the Japanese army during World War II have publicly criticized the deal made between Japan and South Korea on their behalf.
At the end of World War II, an estimated 200,000 South Korean women were forced by the Imperial Japanese Army to work in brothels as “comfort women,” a euphemized term for sexual slavery, for the Japanese military. On Monday, South Korea accepted Japan’s reconciliatory apology and offer to contribute 1 billion yen…
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed legislation on Tuesday urging the city to build a memorial in remembrance of the approximately 200,000 women who were forced into sex slavery by the Japanese army during World War II. The decision puts pressure on the city to take on the project, but does not actually…
Japan's long overdue apology and compensation for the so-called "comfort women" from Korea it pressed into sex slavery during World War II is complicating President Obama's foreign policy plans in Asia. South Korea still wants that mea culpa from Japan, but Japan (so far), won't budge.
Toru Hashimoto, the unfortunately loquacious mayor of Osaka, Japan, managed to keep talking long enough to apologize for one offensive comment he made about contemporary American Marines making “more use” of Japan’s local, legal sex industry to “relieve” their sexual energy, and then stand by the other offensive…
Dispensable comfort women — women and girls forced to provide sexual services to the Japanese military during World War II — were necessary to sate the lust and harness the virile power of Japan's brave soldiers, according to the mayor of Osaka.
Japan's current Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a stern conservative and nationalist who stepped down from his post in 2007 only to re-emerge this year, might be taking back a 1993 apology that the nation issued to World War II "comfort women," thousands of female citizens who were forced into brothels across Asia to…
Jung Yoon-hong, one of the few remaining "comfort women" — Korean women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II — has died, leaving only 79 women to fight for their long-denied compensation.
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"Part Golden Girls, part adamant activists," South Korea's former sex slaves make the House of Sharing a unique retirement community.
It turns out that blaming atrocities carried out by soldiers on "independent contractors" may actually be older than the military-industrial complex itself! The NYT reports that the new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (who sadly replaced the world leader most resembling an older Daniel Dae Kim last year) yesterday…
We hate to get all heavy and Oprah on y'all (pardon the pun), but let's get just a wee bit serious for a moment.
