{"id":13146,"date":"2015-03-13T10:53:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=13146"},"modified":"2015-03-13T10:53:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:53:17","slug":"kyodo-japan-didnt-meddle-with-u-s-comfort-women-textbook-japanese-ambassador-to-us-sasae-claims-meanwhile-goj-panel-established-to-restore-the-honor-and-trust-of-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=13146","title":{"rendered":"Kyodo: Japan didn\u2019t meddle with U.S. “Comfort Women” textbook, Japanese Ambassador to US Sasae claims; meanwhile GOJ panel established to “Restore the Honor and Trust of Japan”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Update on the GOJ Gaiatsu Campaign to force overseas publishers to sanitize their textbooks of history that is unpalatable to Japan’s ruling elite (whose ancestors, particularly the chair of the GOJ committee on revisionism below who is the son of the creator, have ties to the unsavory history itself<\/a>): Out come the Gaijin Handlers<\/a> to maintain the denialism re the “Comfort Women” wartime sexual slaves…\u00a0 Dr. ARUDOU, Debito<\/p>\n

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Japan didn\u2019t meddle with U.S. \u2018comfort women\u2019 textbook, envoy claims<\/strong>
\n The Japan Times\/Kyodo, Feb 14, 2015<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2015\/02\/14\/national\/japan-didnt-meddle-with-u-s-comfort-women-textbook-envoy-claims\/<\/a><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2013 Ambassador to the United States Kenichiro Sasae has rejected criticism by U.S.-based historians that Japan tried to meddle with descriptions in an American textbook over the use of \u201ccomfort women\u201d at wartime Japanese military brothels.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The academics \u201callege interference by the government, but this is not a matter to be considered from that angle in the first place,\u201d Sasae told Japanese reporters Friday in Washington.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sasae made the remarks after a group of 19 academics in a statement criticized Prime Minister Shinzo Abe\u2019s government for asking publisher McGraw-Hill to alter the wording of the description.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In November, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said the Abe government had asked McGraw-Hill to alter some phrasing in the textbook \u201cTraditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past,\u201d which said the Imperial Japanese Army forcibly recruited as many as 200,000 women between the ages of 14 and 20 to serve as forced prostitutes.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried to make them (the publisher) draw attention to the facts,\u201d Sasae said on Friday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Disputes between Japan and South Korea over the comfort women issue have strained ties, as many of the victims were from the Korean Peninsula, which was under Japanese colonial rule from 1910 to 1945.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The U.S.-based academics insisted the Abe government had tried to inappropriately interfere with the textbook\u2019s publication. Sasae denied this, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t think we are interfering unreasonably.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

He did not elaborate further, simply saying, \u201cWe\u2019ll thoroughly examine the statement.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In a landmark 1993 apology issued by then-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono, Japan admitted the recruitment and transfer of comfort women was conducted \u201cgenerally against their will.\u201d But during a 2006 Diet session, Abe, during his first stint in office, stopped short of clearly accepting the comfort women were forcibly recruited.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Abe\u2019s current government asked a panel of experts last year to re-examine the way in which the 1993 Kono statement was compiled. Abe has said, however, that his administration has no intention of rewriting the statement itself.<\/em><\/strong>
\nENDS
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LDP panel explores ways to convey Japan\u2019s views on sex slave issue<\/strong>
\n by Mizuho Aoki Staff Writer,<\/strong>
\n The Japan Times Mar 12, 2015, Courtesy of JDG<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2015\/03\/12\/national\/history\/ldp-panel-explores-ways-to-convey-japans-views-on-sex-slave-issue\/<\/a><\/p>\n

A special Liberal Democratic Party committee on Thursday discussed ways to better convey Japan\u2019s views on wartime historical issues to counter a public relations blitz by South Korea.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

During the sixth gathering of the Special Mission Committee to Restore the Honor and Trust of Japan, chaired by Hirofumi Nakasone, some members said a carefully crafted strategic plan is needed to gain the understanding of the international community when it comes to the issue of \u201ccomfort women,\u201d a euphemism for those who were forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the discussions on how the forced prostitution issue is portrayed in school textbooks overseas, a Foreign Ministry official told the committee that textbooks by one publisher in Germany and three in the United States contain depictions of comfort women.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Although most of the textbooks do not explore the issue in depth, the government needs to look at them carefully and determine whether they merit an official response, Masahiko Shibayama, a Lower House member who serves as a secretariat of the committee, told reporters after the meeting.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Officials from the Foreign Ministry and Justice Ministry attended the meeting to answer members\u2019 questions.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Shibayama also said the government must deal with such issues, which could damage Japan\u2019s national interests, while avoiding the appearance of \u201chistorical revisionism.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

During the hour-long meeting, they also studied past lawsuits and rulings in other countries related to the issue.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The committee, launched last October by right-wing LDP members, including party policy chief Tomomi Inada, plans to compile and submit its recommendations to the administration as early as this month.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It also plans to draw up a recommendation to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe about his expected statement on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, which will be closely watched by Beijing and Seoul.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Abe and LDP lawmakers criticized a U.S. history textbook published by McGraw-Hill that included sentences such as: \u201cThe Japanese Army forcibly recruited, conscripted and dragooned as many as 200,000 women aged 14 to 20 to serve in military brothels.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Japanese mainstream historians say it is impossible to determine the exact number of comfort women. But Yoshiaki Yoshimi, a leading historian on the issue, estimates there were at least 50,000.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Foreign Ministry told the Japanese Consulate in New York last year to ask McGraw-Hill to revise the world history textbook.<\/em><\/strong>
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Out come the Gaijin Handlers, backed up by officially-complicit revisionists…<\/p>\n

Kyodo: Ambassador to the United States Kenichiro Sasae has rejected criticism by U.S.-based historians that Japan tried to meddle with descriptions in an American textbook over the use of \u201ccomfort women\u201d at wartime Japanese military brothels. The academics \u201callege interference by the government, but this is not a matter to be considered from that angle in the first place,\u201d Sasae told Japanese reporters Friday in Washington.<\/p>\n

Japan Times: A special Liberal Democratic Party committee on Thursday discussed ways to better convey Japan\u2019s views on wartime historical issues to counter a public relations blitz by South Korea. During the sixth gathering of the Special Mission Committee to Restore the Honor and Trust of Japan, chaired by Hirofumi Nakasone, some members said a carefully crafted strategic plan is needed to gain the understanding of the international community when it comes to the issue of \u201ccomfort women,\u201d a euphemism for those who were forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,19,50,26,4,14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-social-science","category-education","category-gaiatsu","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-politics","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}