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Japan asks U.S. publisher to change 'sex slave' reference in textbook

→Politics Jan. 16, 2015 - 03:15PM JST ( 363 )



Japan asks U.S. publisher to change 'sex slave' reference in textbook
The Comfort Women statue in Glendale, California.

AFP

TOKYO —

Japan has asked a major U.S. publisher to “correct” a school textbook that references World War II sex slaves, the foreign ministry said Thursday, as Tokyo’s bid to polish its history moves abroad.

Diplomats petitioned McGraw-Hill to change passages of a book used in American schools that refer to “comfort women”, a euphemism for those forced to work in military brothels.

TOKYO —

More than 8,700 university professors, lawyers, teachers, journalists and others are suing the Asahi Shimbun, seeking both a formal apology and reparations for the newspaper’s stories on “comfort women.”

The group of plaintiffs, led by Sophia University professor emeritus Shoichi Watanabe, is demanding 10,000 yen in apparently symbolic compensation each, describing themselves as “Japanese citizens whose honor and credibility were damaged by the false reports made by the Asahi Shimbun”, according to court documents.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said the Asahi’s erroneous articles on comfort women smeared Japan’s image in the eyes of people overseas, but the report concluded that the Asahi’s reports had only limited impact on international society.

Despite a dearth of official records, mainstream historians say up to 200,000 women, many from Korea but also from China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Taiwan, served Japanese soldiers in military brothels called “comfort stations”.


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