Sex slave existence denied by Japanese official
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-07-12 10:04

Chen Jinyu, 79, tells of her four-year painful experience as a comfort woman during World War II on September 18 last year at a Shanghai international symposium about Japanese invasion into Asia. Chen was forced into sex slavery in 1941 when she was 16 years old. [newsphoto]

The Kyoto News reported that Nakayama read an e-mail from a female in her 20s supporting his past remarks on comfort women for over 10 minutes at a lecture in Fukuoka on July 10.

Before reading the e-mail from a Japanese female graduate student in Canada, the minister said, "If I talk about my views on history, my remarks could cause misunderstanding, so I decided to read you a letter instead. I ask for your kind understanding."

Nakayama said in June, "There was no such term as 'comfort women for military forces' back then," virtually denying the existence of the comfort women. His remark met with strong criticism in Korea and China.

It is an accepted fact that during World War II, the Japanese military built "comfort centers" where their forces stayed and used "comfort women."

Denying the existence of the term, "comfort women for military forces" just because the phrase "for military forces" was not included came to many as nothing more than a technicality intended to cover up the crimes of the Japanese military.

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