Japan to review lead-up to WW2 comfort women statement

[The Straight Story]

Japan will form a team to review the lead-up to a 1993 statement which acknowledged its wartime use of sex slaves, its top spokesman says.

Yoshihide Suga said the team would "re-examine and understand the background".

The acknowledgement that women were forced into sex slavery with Japanese military complicity was viewed as a landmark apology.

A former leader has said any move to review the apology, known as the Kono statement, would be "absurd".

Some 200,000 women in territories occupied by Japan during World War Two are estimated to have been forced to become sex slaves for troops.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26379645

[gordianot]

1. While they are at it they could dig up some dead horses and give them a good beating.

[Art_from_Ark]

3. Oh, they've been beating lots of dead horses

as they rattle their sabers while simultaneously hopping on one foot while the other is firmly implanted in their mouth.

[davidpdx]

2. That is not going to go over well here in Korea

Many of the comfort women during WWII were Korean.

[nomorenomore08]

4. So unless I'm not understanding correctly, they're actually considering *retracting* the apology???

All I can say to that is and some more!

[Art_from_Ark]

5. Diplomacy obviously isn't these guys' strong point

[nomorenomore08]

6. Understatement of the millennium right there! Holy shit...