日本と韓国の議論の広場

安部首相は訪米を前に、アメリカの２つの報道機関のインタビューに応じた。、「慰安婦」問題で首相の「言明」を厳しく批判していたニューヨーク・タイムズ紙とワシントン・ポスト紙ではなく、ニューズウイーク誌とウォールストリート紙と会見した。

　 会見の内容は両誌（紙）とも４月２１日付けの電子版で報道した。

　 ニューズウイークのラリー・ウェイマウス記者との会見で安部首相は、従軍「慰安婦」問題でのやりとりで以下のように述べた。
（訳は自分でやってね）

Ｑ 　 As you know, your comments on "comfort women" caused an outcry in the United States. Do you really believe the Imperial Army had no program to force Korean, Chinese and other women to provide sexual services to Japanese soldiers?

Ａ 　 I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them. The 20th century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also bears responsibility in that regard. I believe that we have to look at our own history with humility, and we always have to think about our responsibility.

Ｑ 　 Do you now believe that the Imperial Army forced these women into this situation?

Ａ 　 With regards to the wartime comfort-women issue, my administration has been saying all along that we continue to stand by the Kono Statement [a 1993 acknowledgment of Japan's partial responsibility for the brothels]. We feel responsible for having forced these women to go through that hardship and pain as comfort women under the circumstances at the time.


＝渡来系のイケメン首相は偉い。 　 にくい 　 にくい。