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Original Post Date: 2007-08-01 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
Tokyo – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday expressed regret at a US resolution demanding an “unambiguous apology” for Japan’s use of sex slaves in World War II, saying he hoped to look to the future instead.
The conservative leader, who has stirred controversy with his past remarks on so-called “comfort women,” said he had already made his views clear when he visited Washington earlier this year.
“It is regrettable that this resolution was passed,” Abe told reporters a day after the resolution in the US House of Representatives.
“The 20th century was an era of human rights abuses. We want to make the 21st century a bright time for the people in the world with no human rights abuses.”
| ‘The resolution is not based on facts’ |
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki said earlier Tuesday that “the government had addressed the comfort women issue sincerely”.
Jiji Press news agency said Japan would not protest the resolution but would wait in hope that the issue calmed down.
Abe’s government does not want to ruffle relations with the United States, Japan’s closest ally, after suffering a crushing defeat in Sunday’s elections, the news agency said.
Abe earlier this year triggered outrage when he said there was no evidence that Japan’s imperial army directly forced comfort women into wartime brothels.
But he has said that he stands by Japan’s past apology to comfort women. The US congressional resolution passed Monday called for Japan to make an “unambiguous apology” and make amends.
The Japanese government earlier set up a fund to compensate former comfort women, but most shunned it as an insult because the money came from private donations – not the state.
Senior Japanese lawmakers voiced particular outrage over the bill’s sponsor, Mike Honda, a Japanese-American who was interned as a child during World War II and has called compensation for comfort women a human rights issue.
Japan’s former farm minister Yoshinobu Shimamura accused the Democratic congressman of trying to “score political points” among Asian-American voters in his California constituency.
“The resolution is not based on facts,” Shimamura said, as quoted by Jiji Press.
“It is feared that people who aren’t familiar with those days will believe it (that sex slaves existed),” he said. “As a Japanese lawmaker, I have the responsibility to assert that it is not true.”
Shimamura was among dozens of Japanese lawmakers who took out a full-page advertisement in The Washington Post in June denying Japan’s military forced the women into sexual slavery.
Historians say up to 200 000 comfort women, largely Koreans but also from other countries, were forced to provide sex to Japanese soldiers in frontline brothels.
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