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3月6日 Japan’s PM says ‘no need for apology’ over sex slave issueTOKYO: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said yesterday that Japan would not apologise again for forcing women, mostly Asian, to act as wartime sex slaves for its soldiers even if US lawmakers adopt a resolution calling for an apology. Abe, seeking to bolster support among his conservative base, has already sparked diplomatic ire by appearing to question the state’s role in forcing the women to act as sex slaves for soldiers during World War Two. US Congressman Michael Honda, a California Democrat, has introduced a non-binding resolution calling on Japan to unambiguously apologise for the tragedy that thousands of Asian women, many Korean, endured at the hands of its Imperial Army. “I have to say that even if the resolution passes, that doesn’t mean we will apologise,” Abe told a parliamentary panel yesterday, adding the US resolution contained factual errors. But Abe repeated that he stood by a 1993 government apology that acknowledged the Japanese military’s a role in setting up and managing wartime brothels and that coercion was used. Abe, who wants to rewrite Japan’s pacifist constitution and restore a sense of pride in the nation’s past, upset his core conservative supporters and startled critics when he softened his stance on wartime history after taking office last September. Among those shifts was his decision to stand by the 1993 apology, known at the “Kono Statement”, after then-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono, in whose name it was issued. The softer stance on history was widely seen as an attempt to smooth the way for summits with China and South Korea and improve ties that had chilled under his predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi. Then last week, Abe sparked a fierce reaction from South Korea when he appeared to question the degree to which physical coercion was involved in recruiting the women for the brothels. “There is no evidence to back up that there was coercion as defined initially,” he told reporters on Thursday, apparently referring to accusations that the Imperial Army had kidnapped women and put them in brothels to serve soldiers. Yesterday, Abe said there seemed to have been some apparent cases of coercion, such as by middlemen, but he added: “It was not as though military police broke into people’s homes and took them away like kidnappers.” A number of historians estimate that as many as 200,000 “comfort women” were forced into sexual slavery in Japanese army brothels during World War Two. Some experts agree that not all or even most were physically coerced, but the say that does not absolve the Japanese government of responsibility for their suffering. “If you look at the statements of comfort women themselves, very few are saying that people actually came into their houses and forced them to leave,” said Andrew Horvat, a professor at Tokyo Keizai University who has written on the topic. “But recruiters were working for the government and in that sense they were responsible for it, and whether it was physical coercion or the use of authority and deception is really a moot point,” he added. Abe’s effort to draw such distinctions, analysts said, stems from a desire to please his conservative base while not caving in entirely to pressure to revise or withdraw the 1993 apology. A group of ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers is discussing the topic and may ask the government to revise the 1993 statement, although a media report said last week they had given up pushing for a complete rewrite because of Abe’s stance. Abe’s popularity has been dented in recent months by doubts about his leadership capabilities, a worrisome decline for the LDP ahead of July elections for parliament’s upper house. “Abe is unpopular and he is trying to mobilise his core supporters, who tend to be sort of right-wing and nationalist,” said Phil Deans, a professor of international affairs at Temple University’s Japan Campus. I’m not sure what the voting strength is of that body of opinion.... My impression is that most Japanese voters are worried about old-fashioned bread-and-butter issues, and find all of this a distraction,” Deans said. “But the general public watches the US closely and if this clearly upsets America, that would be damaging,” he added. |
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