Japanese politicians say Korean ‘comfort women’ claims fabricated [View all]
Source: South China Morning Post
A group of Japanese politicians who visited California to protest about a statue in honour of Asian "comfort women" have joined the movement demanding the government reconsider the apology made in 1993 to the victims of forced military prostitution during the second world war.
Known as the Kono Statement, after then chief cabinet secretary Yohei Kono, the government of the day acknowledged that the Japanese military was involved in the forced recruitment of women from Japan's colonies for its military.
But summoned before the Diet on Thursday, Nobuo Ishihara, Kono's deputy, confirmed that the government did not verify accounts given by 16 South Korean women who claimed they had been forced into sexual servitude for the Japanese military - testimony that served as the basis for the apology.
That admission has provided an opportunity for the right wing in Japan to dismiss the women's stories as fabrications.
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