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Responsibility Denied: Japan's Debate Over the Comfort Women

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

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On March 29, 2007, members of the Japan Acton Network for the ‘Comfort Woman’ Issue, accompanied by three Diet representatives, visited the Cabinet Office to submit letters of protest against Prime Minister Abe Shinzo's series of statements denying Japanese governmental involvement in coercing the comfort women into the military's wartime system of sexual slavery. They also raised concern over efforts to revise the 1993 “Kono Statement.”

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , March 2007 , e25
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