24/11/2017 What the statues of comfort women symbolize
San Francisco officially accepted a statue of ‘comfort women’ in spite of the protests from Japanese Prime Minister Abe and Mayor Yoshimura of Osaka City, which was San Francisco’s sister city. I have not heard that San Francisco provided objective evidence that the Japanese army had sex slaves. It would be impossible to do so because there were no such slaves as I discussed on the 18 th of this month. Similar statues also exist not only in South Korea but also in Australia and Germany. Why are these countries willing to have such statues? The basic reason is that there are many people there who want to debase Japan by all means. Many Koreans dislike Japan because Korea was once a part of Japan, not a colony incidentally. This is in stark contrast with the case of Taiwan, whose people like Japan very much even though it was also a part of Japan. In additi...