PLEASE CONSIDER SIGNING PETITION-Japan: Stop Denying the ‘Comfort Women’ Justice!
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.”