
Canada’s parliament has unanimously passed a motion calling on Japan to apologize for forcing some 200,000 women to serve as wartime sex slaves. Similar motions have been adopted in the US and the Netherlands.
Yes # This isn’t crime against 200,000 women. It’s crime against humanity and all of the world’s citizens have a responsibility to speak out against it.
# Forced prostitution at this level is unpardonable and Japan’s failure to acknowledge it is a huge hurdle in establishing good relations with its neighbors.
No # If Japan is forced to apologize for WWII crimes then US and other western nations should also come right out to apologize to Africans for its legacy.
# Since the US and many other western states didn’t officially protest during or immediately after the atrocities transpired, to do so now is unfair to modern Japanese who like the victims, must also live with the memory of their military’s regrettable wartime policies.
I agree with what Mr. Anupam has said. What will people get with an apology? Instead if the people are given some assurance that such things will be strictly not repeated again, would be of some help and meaningful.
a) An apology will mean victims and their families would then have a legal weapon to sue for compensations. Remember, after Japan was defeated, the Allied forces let Hirohito to continue as the Emperor of Japan in a constitutional monarchy setup. The current Japanese government is still technically the government of the monarchy that carried out the Asian Holocaust. Japan apologized for the Korean Comfort Women and was subsequently sued by many. A comprehensive apology is not going to be in the interest of the Japan.
b) Many Japanese believe that some of the war criminals were national heroes and they worship them in temples such as this. This is a very sensitive issue for many Japanese.
Besides the above two reasons, the US of A has not apologized yet for its nuclear attack on Japan obliterating two cities and causing deaths of millions of civilians over time as a result of it. If there has to be an apology, it should come as a reconciliation package where all the parties of the War should work towards correcting historical atrocities if that means apologies from all sides.
Ten Dutch women were taken by force from prison camps in Java by officers of the Japanese Imperial Army to become forced sex slaves in February 1944. They were systematically beaten and raped day and night in a so called ”Comfort Station”. As a victim of the incident, Jan Ruff-O’Hearn testified to a U.S. House of Representatives committee, ”Many stories have been told about the horrors, brutalities, suffering and starvation of Dutch women in Japanese prison camps. But one story was never told, the most shameful story of the worst human rights abuse committed by the Japanese during World War II: The story of the “Comfort Women”, the jugun ianfu, and how these women were forcibly seized against their will, to provide sexual services for the Japanese Imperial Army. In the so-called “Comfort Station” I was systematically beaten and raped day and night. Even the Japanese doctor raped me each time he visited the brothel to examine us for veneral disease.”
It is regrettable that people can talk of it as irrelevant now after 60 years and in some cases considering the ’world guilty’ for helping the victims relieve their pain and restore their human dignity.
But still I don’t think that your this injustice with wartime women slaves should be excused and moreover for this you should get some big punishment so that no other nation can ever think to commit this grave peccadillo again.
Japan has already apologized for the crimes against Korean women who were used as sex slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army. In 1995, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama did that, offered a ’profound’ apology. Check this out. Japan has however denied legal liability for this.
Now, are you confusing this with the demand for a Japanese apology for the Asian Holocaust? Or, is it simply financial compensation for the comfort women?
Please make up your minds.
Its human tendency to scratch a healing wound n Canada is no exception. Anyway, if at all Canada wants to show its competency, I would suggest it take a descending route - starting from Iraq, going through Afghanistan... and so on... And I’m sure, by the time it reaches Japan, it comes around some scarred faces presenting a black page in the history of Hiroshima n Nagasaki too.
It will be a nice journey down the memory lane - one which will certainly make Canada, and the World, forget their stupd cry for apologies.
I’m not not familiar with this subject called history, but as a layman, I find that Japan’s crime is very pale in comparison with other graver war crimes committed by other nations.
So, to seek or demand an apology from Japan is a kiddish act by Canada.
It’s the individuals who did the crime who should feel the remorse and I guess it would have pricked their conscious sometime or the other in their life.
There are enough issues to worry about than start bickering over such things.
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The international authorities must seek a lesson from this and instead of nourishing the old wounds they must take a step forward with pledge of not committing the same mistake again!
I agree with what Mr. Anupam has said. What will people get with an apology? Instead if the people are given some assurance that such things will be strictly not repeated again, would be of some help and meaningful.
a) An apology will mean victims and their families would then have a legal weapon to sue for compensations. Remember, after Japan was defeated, the Allied forces let Hirohito to continue as the Emperor of Japan in a constitutional monarchy setup. The current Japanese government is still technically the government of the monarchy that carried out the Asian Holocaust. Japan apologized for the Korean Comfort Women and was subsequently sued by many. A comprehensive apology is not going to be in the interest of the Japan.
b) Many Japanese believe that some of the war criminals were national heroes and they worship them in temples such as this. This is a very sensitive issue for many Japanese.
Besides the above two reasons, the US of A has not apologized yet for its nuclear attack on Japan obliterating two cities and causing deaths of millions of civilians over time as a result of it. If there has to be an apology, it should come as a reconciliation package where all the parties of the War should work towards correcting historical atrocities if that means apologies from all sides.
Ten Dutch women were taken by force from prison camps in Java by officers of the Japanese Imperial Army to become forced sex slaves in February 1944. They were systematically beaten and raped day and night in a so called ”Comfort Station”. As a victim of the incident, Jan Ruff-O’Hearn testified to a U.S. House of Representatives committee, ”Many stories have been told about the horrors, brutalities, suffering and starvation of Dutch women in Japanese prison camps. But one story was never told, the most shameful story of the worst human rights abuse committed by the Japanese during World War II: The story of the “Comfort Women”, the jugun ianfu, and how these women were forcibly seized against their will, to provide sexual services for the Japanese Imperial Army. In the so-called “Comfort Station” I was systematically beaten and raped day and night. Even the Japanese doctor raped me each time he visited the brothel to examine us for veneral disease.”
It is regrettable that people can talk of it as irrelevant now after 60 years and in some cases considering the ’world guilty’ for helping the victims relieve their pain and restore their human dignity.
But still I don’t think that your this injustice with wartime women slaves should be excused and moreover for this you should get some big punishment so that no other nation can ever think to commit this grave peccadillo again.
Japan has already apologized for the crimes against Korean women who were used as sex slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army. In 1995, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama did that, offered a ’profound’ apology. Check this out. Japan has however denied legal liability for this.
Now, are you confusing this with the demand for a Japanese apology for the Asian Holocaust? Or, is it simply financial compensation for the comfort women?
Please make up your minds.
Its human tendency to scratch a healing wound n Canada is no exception. Anyway, if at all Canada wants to show its competency, I would suggest it take a descending route - starting from Iraq, going through Afghanistan... and so on... And I’m sure, by the time it reaches Japan, it comes around some scarred faces presenting a black page in the history of Hiroshima n Nagasaki too.
It will be a nice journey down the memory lane - one which will certainly make Canada, and the World, forget their stupd cry for apologies.
I’m not not familiar with this subject called history, but as a layman, I find that Japan’s crime is very pale in comparison with other graver war crimes committed by other nations.
So, to seek or demand an apology from Japan is a kiddish act by Canada.
It’s the individuals who did the crime who should feel the remorse and I guess it would have pricked their conscious sometime or the other in their life.
There are enough issues to worry about than start bickering over such things.
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The international authorities must seek a lesson from this and instead of nourishing the old wounds they must take a step forward with pledge of not committing the same mistake again!
I agree with what Mr. Anupam has said. What will people get with an apology? Instead if the people are given some assurance that such things will be strictly not repeated again, would be of some help and meaningful.
a) An apology will mean victims and their families would then have a legal weapon to sue for compensations. Remember, after Japan was defeated, the Allied forces let Hirohito to continue as the Emperor of Japan in a constitutional monarchy setup. The current Japanese government is still technically the government of the monarchy that carried out the Asian Holocaust. Japan apologized for the Korean Comfort Women and was subsequently sued by many. A comprehensive apology is not going to be in the interest of the Japan.
b) Many Japanese believe that some of the war criminals were national heroes and they worship them in temples such as this. This is a very sensitive issue for many Japanese.
Besides the above two reasons, the US of A has not apologized yet for its nuclear attack on Japan obliterating two cities and causing deaths of millions of civilians over time as a result of it. If there has to be an apology, it should come as a reconciliation package where all the parties of the War should work towards correcting historical atrocities if that means apologies from all sides.
Ten Dutch women were taken by force from prison camps in Java by officers of the Japanese Imperial Army to become forced sex slaves in February 1944. They were systematically beaten and raped day and night in a so called ”Comfort Station”. As a victim of the incident, Jan Ruff-O’Hearn testified to a U.S. House of Representatives committee, ”Many stories have been told about the horrors, brutalities, suffering and starvation of Dutch women in Japanese prison camps. But one story was never told, the most shameful story of the worst human rights abuse committed by the Japanese during World War II: The story of the “Comfort Women”, the jugun ianfu, and how these women were forcibly seized against their will, to provide sexual services for the Japanese Imperial Army. In the so-called “Comfort Station” I was systematically beaten and raped day and night. Even the Japanese doctor raped me each time he visited the brothel to examine us for veneral disease.”
It is regrettable that people can talk of it as irrelevant now after 60 years and in some cases considering the ’world guilty’ for helping the victims relieve their pain and restore their human dignity.
But still I don’t think that your this injustice with wartime women slaves should be excused and moreover for this you should get some big punishment so that no other nation can ever think to commit this grave peccadillo again.
Japan has already apologized for the crimes against Korean women who were used as sex slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army. In 1995, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama did that, offered a ’profound’ apology. Check this out. Japan has however denied legal liability for this.
Now, are you confusing this with the demand for a Japanese apology for the Asian Holocaust? Or, is it simply financial compensation for the comfort women?
Please make up your minds.
Its human tendency to scratch a healing wound n Canada is no exception. Anyway, if at all Canada wants to show its competency, I would suggest it take a descending route - starting from Iraq, going through Afghanistan... and so on... And I’m sure, by the time it reaches Japan, it comes around some scarred faces presenting a black page in the history of Hiroshima n Nagasaki too.
It will be a nice journey down the memory lane - one which will certainly make Canada, and the World, forget their stupd cry for apologies.
I’m not not familiar with this subject called history, but as a layman, I find that Japan’s crime is very pale in comparison with other graver war crimes committed by other nations.
So, to seek or demand an apology from Japan is a kiddish act by Canada.
It’s the individuals who did the crime who should feel the remorse and I guess it would have pricked their conscious sometime or the other in their life.
There are enough issues to worry about than start bickering over such things.
Ten Dutch women were taken by force from prison camps in Java by officers of the Japanese Imperial Army to become forced sex slaves in February 1944. They were systematically beaten and raped day and night in a so called ”Comfort Station”. As a victim of the incident, Jan Ruff-O’Hearn testified to a U.S. House of Representatives committee, ”Many stories have been told about the horrors, brutalities, suffering and starvation of Dutch women in Japanese prison camps. But one story was never told, the most shameful story of the worst human rights abuse committed by the Japanese during World War II: The story of the “Comfort Women”, the jugun ianfu, and how these women were forcibly seized against their will, to provide sexual services for the Japanese Imperial Army. In the so-called “Comfort Station” I was systematically beaten and raped day and night. Even the Japanese doctor raped me each time he visited the brothel to examine us for veneral disease.”
It is regrettable that people can talk of it as irrelevant now after 60 years and in some cases considering the ’world guilty’ for helping the victims relieve their pain and restore their human dignity.
But still I don’t think that your this injustice with wartime women slaves should be excused and moreover for this you should get some big punishment so that no other nation can ever think to commit this grave peccadillo again.
The international authorities must seek a lesson from this and instead of nourishing the old wounds they must take a step forward with pledge of not committing the same mistake again!
I agree with what Mr. Anupam has said. What will people get with an apology? Instead if the people are given some assurance that such things will be strictly not repeated again, would be of some help and meaningful.
a) An apology will mean victims and their families would then have a legal weapon to sue for compensations. Remember, after Japan was defeated, the Allied forces let Hirohito to continue as the Emperor of Japan in a constitutional monarchy setup. The current Japanese government is still technically the government of the monarchy that carried out the Asian Holocaust. Japan apologized for the Korean Comfort Women and was subsequently sued by many. A comprehensive apology is not going to be in the interest of the Japan.
b) Many Japanese believe that some of the war criminals were national heroes and they worship them in temples such as this. This is a very sensitive issue for many Japanese.
Besides the above two reasons, the US of A has not apologized yet for its nuclear attack on Japan obliterating two cities and causing deaths of millions of civilians over time as a result of it. If there has to be an apology, it should come as a reconciliation package where all the parties of the War should work towards correcting historical atrocities if that means apologies from all sides.
Japan has already apologized for the crimes against Korean women who were used as sex slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army. In 1995, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama did that, offered a ’profound’ apology. Check this out. Japan has however denied legal liability for this.
Now, are you confusing this with the demand for a Japanese apology for the Asian Holocaust? Or, is it simply financial compensation for the comfort women?
Please make up your minds.
Its human tendency to scratch a healing wound n Canada is no exception. Anyway, if at all Canada wants to show its competency, I would suggest it take a descending route - starting from Iraq, going through Afghanistan... and so on... And I’m sure, by the time it reaches Japan, it comes around some scarred faces presenting a black page in the history of Hiroshima n Nagasaki too.
It will be a nice journey down the memory lane - one which will certainly make Canada, and the World, forget their stupd cry for apologies.
I’m not not familiar with this subject called history, but as a layman, I find that Japan’s crime is very pale in comparison with other graver war crimes committed by other nations.
So, to seek or demand an apology from Japan is a kiddish act by Canada.
It’s the individuals who did the crime who should feel the remorse and I guess it would have pricked their conscious sometime or the other in their life.
There are enough issues to worry about than start bickering over such things.
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The international authorities must seek a lesson from this and instead of nourishing the old wounds they must take a step forward with pledge of not committing the same mistake again!