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Granite Studio comments on Japan Prime Mininister Abe's recent comments on “comfort woman”: Is history, and especially history education, nothing more than rhetoric and tales in the service of national self-esteem?
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BACKGROUND OF ‘COMFORT WOMEN’ ISSUE / No hard evidence of coercion in recruitment of comfort women
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070331dy02.htm
BACKGROUND OF ‘COMFORT WOMEN’ ISSUE / Comfort station originated in govt-regulated ‘civilian prostitution’
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070331dy01.htm
BACKGROUND OF ‘COMFORT WOMEN’ ISSUE / Kono’s statement on ‘comfort women’ created misunderstanding
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070402dy01.htm
COMFORT WOMEN AND KONO STATEMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvWimmKifOs&eurl=