On Japan and 'comfort women' (compulsory prostitutes of subjugated countries during WWII):
it would be best for contemporary Japan to denounce the monstrous deeds (including plunder, and 'comfort women' were a form of plunder) to denounce the crimes. Japan is far from the depraved society that it was before it surrendered.
Failure to do so aids countries hostile to Japanese diplomatic and commercial interests. Yes, I recognize that Japan is a tough sell in the Phllippines; the Philippines now has an autocratic government and a large and influential Chinese diaspora. But if Japanese firms want to make profitable investments then they will have to denounce the sordid past.
it would be best for contemporary Japan to denounce the monstrous deeds (including plunder, and 'comfort women' were a form of plunder) to denounce the crimes. Japan is far from the depraved society that it was before it surrendered.
Failure to do so aids countries hostile to Japanese diplomatic and commercial interests. Yes, I recognize that Japan is a tough sell in the Phllippines; the Philippines now has an autocratic government and a large and influential Chinese diaspora. But if Japanese firms want to make profitable investments then they will have to denounce the sordid past.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
