6 Mar 2007

Japan's Wartime Sexual Slavery

Violence against Women in War Network Japan (VAWW-NET Japan), a Japan-based NGO working on the issue of wartime sexual slavery (often euphemized as 'comfort women issue'), won a major legal victory against Japan's public broadcaster NHK. The Tokyo High Court found top NHK executives had bowed to political pressure and distorted a program orginally designed to educate viewers on Japan's wartime responsibilities. See: Soldier confirms wartime sex slavery: more



"Yasuji Kaneko, 87, still remembers the screams of the countless women he raped in China as a foot soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.


Yasuji Kaneko, a foot soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, speaks at his home in Tokyo about countless women he raped in China as a soldier.
Some were teenagers from the Korean Peninsula serving as sex slaves in military-run brothels. Others were women in villages he and his comrades pillaged as they battled in eastern China."


But Abe rejects Japan's files on wartime sex slavery....

But Japanese prime minister's denial of forced wartime sexual slavery causes outrage


More about'Comfort Women' here