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投稿者： kodokunokaori 投稿日時： 2007/02/28 09:51 投稿番号： [13603 / 73791]
Aso calls sex slave resolution in U.S. groundless
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 07:35 EST
TOKYO ・Foreign Minister Taro Aso expressed displeasure Monday over a U.S. House of Representatives resolution condemning Japan for acts of sexual exploitation during World War II. "It is extremely regrettable and definitely not based on facts," Aso said during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session.
Aso said Japan has already said and done enough on the issue of "comfort women" and that Tokyo was working to convince U.S. lawmakers to accept its position.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appeared more restrained in his response, telling reporters, "Basically, this is the U.S. Congress' business so I am not going to repeat our government's stance every single time. What is important, I believe, is that things are based on facts."
A group of bipartisan lawmakers, including Democratic Rep Mike Honda and some powerful Republicans, submitted the resolution on Jan 31, urging the Japanese prime minister to offer an official apology for the sexual exploitation, victims of which are known euphemistically in Japan as "comfort women."
"Their action does not take into account the Japanese government's response to the issue of comfort women," Aso said.
Historians say at least 200,000 young women, mostly from Korea but also from China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Taiwan, were forced to serve as sex slaves in Japanese army brothels.
In 1993, the Japanese government issued a statement voicing "sincere apologies and remorse" and acknowledging that Japan's imperial army was involved "directly or indirectly" in sexual slavery.
The government in 1995 set up a fund to compensate former comfort women. But it uses money collected by private donations, leading many victims to shun it.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said he stands by the 1993 apology, although top aides such as Shoichi Nakagawa, the policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, have called on the government to reconsider it.
Honda, speaking in Congress last month, said he was promoting the bill due to Japanese textbooks which say little on the issue, and to the attitude of ruling party lawmakers.
"The purpose of this resolution is not to bash or humiliate Japan. This is about achieving justice for the few remaining women who survived this atrocity," Honda said.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 07:35 EST
TOKYO ・Foreign Minister Taro Aso expressed displeasure Monday over a U.S. House of Representatives resolution condemning Japan for acts of sexual exploitation during World War II. "It is extremely regrettable and definitely not based on facts," Aso said during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session.
Aso said Japan has already said and done enough on the issue of "comfort women" and that Tokyo was working to convince U.S. lawmakers to accept its position.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appeared more restrained in his response, telling reporters, "Basically, this is the U.S. Congress' business so I am not going to repeat our government's stance every single time. What is important, I believe, is that things are based on facts."
A group of bipartisan lawmakers, including Democratic Rep Mike Honda and some powerful Republicans, submitted the resolution on Jan 31, urging the Japanese prime minister to offer an official apology for the sexual exploitation, victims of which are known euphemistically in Japan as "comfort women."
"Their action does not take into account the Japanese government's response to the issue of comfort women," Aso said.
Historians say at least 200,000 young women, mostly from Korea but also from China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Taiwan, were forced to serve as sex slaves in Japanese army brothels.
In 1993, the Japanese government issued a statement voicing "sincere apologies and remorse" and acknowledging that Japan's imperial army was involved "directly or indirectly" in sexual slavery.
The government in 1995 set up a fund to compensate former comfort women. But it uses money collected by private donations, leading many victims to shun it.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said he stands by the 1993 apology, although top aides such as Shoichi Nakagawa, the policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, have called on the government to reconsider it.
Honda, speaking in Congress last month, said he was promoting the bill due to Japanese textbooks which say little on the issue, and to the attitude of ruling party lawmakers.
"The purpose of this resolution is not to bash or humiliate Japan. This is about achieving justice for the few remaining women who survived this atrocity," Honda said.
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