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The Japanese Apology on the “Comfort Women” Cannot Be Considered Official: Interview with Congressman Michael Honda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Michael Honda  and
Kinue Tokudome
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[Japan Focus introduction: Prime Minister Abe Shinzo recently added another entry to the long, sorry chapter of official Japanese war-crime denials when he said that there was no coercion of the so-called comfort-women by the imperial military “in the narrow sense of the word.” On March 1, an historic day in the history of Korean resistance to Japanese colonial rule, he said: “The fact is, there is no evidence to prove there was coercion.”

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 5 , May 2007 , e25
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