U.S. House: Japan Should Apologize to Comfort Women

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a non-binding resolution 121 on Monday stating that Japan should authoritatively confess with a complete apology and full acknowledgement, in a crystal-clear and unequivocal way, to Imperial Japan's WWII "comfort women."

Japan maintains that only 20% were unwilling because some were sold by their fathers appears contemptible in an effort to minimize accountability. According to Wordpress, the enslaved sexual victims were divided in to three different groups, " ... military, camp followers, and 'volunteer' women - who were actually conscripted."

Since 1993, Japan had admitted that there were military run brothels during Word War 2. It is unacceptable to the remaining aged survivors that apologies are offered but with no formal vote from Japan's Parliament.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe negated the 1993 apology by saying it never happened. White House supports Prime Minister Abe. Japan's ambassador, Ryozo Kato, cautioned that the recent passage by the House of Representatives is not grounded on objective data.

The sticking point is that Japan never admitted the victims were not common prostitutes but enslaved to have venal sex. Survivors avow that they cannot recover their lost human honor and purge their wretchedness without Japan's absolute admission of guilt. In a mysogenic explanation og why rape victims didn't settle for "back pay" point to the fact that the sex slave reparation fund lack of claims from victims is proof enough that it never happened. These women want an admission of unquestionable guilt - not money.

Government licensed brothels or legalized prostitution is Japan's official history of these military brothels. It would be incredulous at best that any person would volunteer for twenty to sixty customers a day, when for a low priced whore is fifteen to twenty buyers a day[umich].

In an article published Apr 26, 2007, [Japan] by Eric Talmadge, wrote that the brothel slaves were also used by American GI's starting in August 1945 and that the US military supplied penicillin for the women and prophylactics for the men. until March 25, 1946, when as a health measure, General Douglas MacArthur call it off limits because of the epidemic of sexual transmitted diseases.

First impression may be taken that this nonbinding resolution may be political kabuki by U.S. House Representatives' as a reelection build-up for 2008 but deeper motivations are revealed with the author of the House resolution.

As reported in the chosun, U.S. House of representative, Mike Honda, is a Sansei, (third-generation Japanese American), who was imprisoned for fourteen months during the United States forced removal and unjust imprisonment of American citizens of Japanese ancestry, euphemistically called "internment camps" during World War II.

Honda feels that the U.S. Senate's 1988 resolution and President Ronald Reagan's apology began a start towards reconciliation. Honda believes the same start of a healing process can begin with Japan's formal apology which would result in strengthened relations with Korea and China.