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Human Rights, Memory and Reconciliation: Korea–Japan Relations

Human Rights, Memory and Reconciliation: Korea–Japan Relations

Human rights, memory and reconciliation: Korea–Japan relations
MikyoungKim

Introduction

The new Abe administration in Japan plans to re-examine the 1993 Kono statement in which Kono Yohei, then Chief Cabinet Secretary, apologized and admitted the Japanese government's responsibility for the comfort station operations. If it proceeds with this plan, the Abe government is likely to whitewash or revoke the Kono statement, which has been the consistent object of resentment and criticisms among nationalists. Mr Abe has been arguing that no historical documents exist to support the claim of forcible recruitment of girls and young women into wartime military sexual slavery. Suga Yoshihide, the Chief Cabinet Secretary, has stated that the government will invite a group of historians to study the warfront brothel ...

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