This has been an issue here since the monument was dedicated.
My favorite quote is:
Mindy Kotler, director of the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit Asia Policy Point, said the word “abducted” can inflame the Japanese and that “coerced” is a better word. “Not all the women were abducted,” she said.
Kotler, who has studied the comfort women issue, said the Japanese elite feel the monument is an attack on them. She said it’s “standard thinking” among businessmen, government officials and politicians that Japan was tricked into the war and that the country isn’t culpable of any war crimes.
Those people “feel the biggest war crime was the dropping of the atomic bomb,” she said, “and that the real victims of World War II are the Japanese.”
What a load of BS!
"“feel the biggest war crime was the dropping of the atomic bomb,” she said, “and that the real victims of World War II are the Japanese.”"
My, My, how conveniently they have managed to forget Pearl Harbor :-@
Have a great week! B-)
might as well make a very generic "War Is Hell" monument to be placed next to it.
> My, My, how conveniently they have managed to forget Pearl Harbor :-@
Not to mention atrocities against the Chinese 1931-1945 (which stemmed from the earlier war with China in 1894).
Makes me wonder when a memorial will be placed for all the Muslim women, and girls, that are killed, burned with acid, forced into genital mutilation, etc., all for the smallest of "offenses".
Ever wonder why the Japanese were never tried for war crimes over the medical experimentation they carried out on Allied POW's? Made what the Nazis did along those lines in the death camps look like child's play. Yet, not one Japanese medical officer was ever charged. Matter of fact, I believe the main-most-mortar-forker-in-charge is still alive and living in comfort at his estate in Japan.
> Ever wonder why the Japanese were never tried for war crimes over the medical experimentation they carried out on Allied POW's? Made what the Nazis did along those lines in the death camps look like child's play. Yet, not one Japanese medical officer was ever charged. Matter of fact, I believe the main-most-mortar-forker-in-charge is still alive and living in comfort at his estate in Japan.
Well, wonder no more.
Most of the members of "Unit 713", as it was known, were supposed to be interrogated by the Russians at the end of the war. The Americans offered nearly all of them immunity, in return for sharing the results of their horrible experiments.
Some went on to form large pharmaceutical companies, like Green Cross.
Over the last 60 years, nearly all of those involved have passed on, without having to pay for their crimes.
