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Historians believe Japan forced up to 200,000 Chinese and Korean women to be sex slaves during WWII. Women who survived — and weren't shamed into silence – have described being recruited for labor, then beaten and raped by as many as 40 Japanese officers a day.
The Japanese government still won't admit these women were actually kidnapped and raped. And now Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto has decided to give his take on the atrocities: rape and kidnapping were "necessary" to sate the lust and harness the virility of Japan's soldiers.
“Anyone can understand that the system of
comfort women was necessary to provide respite for a group of high-strung,
rough and tumble crowd of men braving their lives under a storm of bullets,”
Hashimoto said. He also questioned whether the women were really coerced and
claimed comfort women were part of “a necessary system to maintain military
discipline."
This is a slap in the face to the women
who went through this ordeal, a cowardly move from a government that waited
until most of these women were dead before broaching the topic at all. Please, join us
in condemning Mayor Hashimoto's atrocious commentary and calling on the
Japanese to admit blame and begin compensation talks.
PETITION
TO JAPANESE GOVERNMENT: We condemn the rape apologist statements made by Mayor
Toru Hasimoto on Japan's "comfort women," and call on government
leaders to admit their blame and begin compensation talks immediately.
Thanks,
The folks at Watchdog.net
P.S. If the other links aren't working for you, please go here to sign: http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/3023?n=35052367.CdF_t6
Email from Melanie Jones
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