We Raped Without Reluctance

The Japanese have still not come to terms with their national and cultural role in World War II. While the Germans have, for the most part, paid reparations and maintain memorials to victims in full acknowledgement of Nazi crimes, their former ally Japan still has its head in the sand. From Time Magazine (time.com) yesterday: "They cried out, but it didn't matter to us whether the women lived or died," Kaneko said in an interview with The Associated Press at his Tokyo home. "We were the emperor's soldiers. Whether in military brothels or in the villages, we raped without reluctance." "Historians say some 200,000 women—mostly from Korea and China—served in the Japanese military brothels throughout Asia in the 1930s and 1940s....and forced into sexual slavery by Japanese troops, and the top government spokesman acknowledged the wrongdoing in 1993. "Now some in Japan's government are questioning whether the apology was needed." FULL ARTICLE...