"US lawmakers have called on Japan's government to formally apologise for its role in forcing thousands of women to work as sex slaves in World War II."
"The resolution calls on Japan - one of the strongest US allies in Asia - to "formally acknowledge, apologise and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner" for the suffering of the women."
"Earlier this month, a group of Japanese lawmakers demanded the US government retract the resolution, saying it was based on "wrong information that is totally different from the historical fact".
Tom Lantos, chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, described attempts to deny the use of sex slaves as "nauseating".
"There can be no denying the Japanese imperial military coerced thousands upon thousands of Asian women," Mr Lantos said.
"Those who posit that all of the comfort women were happily complicit and acting of their own accord simply do not understand the meaning of the word rape." "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6923352.stm
> simply do not understand the meaning of the word rape.
this = all japanese
I'm really irked that the House of Representatives can't find better, more pressing things to vote about than the history of other nations....
-_-
Well rape...its like saying hello in Japan