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Japan's wartime brothels were wrong, says 91-year-old veteran
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On the issue of the comfort women I think all survivors received an apology from PM Murayama but they also want the correct visions of history in the school text books. Many other PM's have also given apologies. But there are still too many politicians and major leaders who deny the past.
There should be a national monument to all those who suffered the Imperialist war crimes. In Germany, they didn't pull down the Nazi death camps, they left them in place so that all future generations could know about Germany's dark Nazi past.
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zichi
The statement alone by Matsumoto wouldn't be sufficient to show that the Imperial Military organised a system of battlefield brothels for its troops and some of the prostitutes in those brothels weren't there out of their own accord. But the statement by Matsumoto can be added to the many other personal statements made previously by surviving troops which aren't only about this issue, but also many of the serious war crimes committed by Imperial Japan at the time.
Together, with the available documentary evidence makes a very strong case for the comfort women. On surrender, America wasn't interested in what happened at Nanjing, the military brothels or even Unit 731 which it covered up for decades. America confiscated about 300,000 documents but only translated about 14,000 of them. In the late 1950's at the request of the Japanese gov't those documents were returned without even making copies. Many documents remain sealed by the gov't and the police agency.
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T_rexmaxytime,
Since he probably examined the women from time to time for STD's, he probably also learnt about their history.
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T_rexmaxytime
From the post,
Its quite clear, that a number of women were forced or deceived into military prostitution. We don't know the exact numbers and probably ever will. Some of those women agreed to become prostitutes but others didn't
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How much Guinness could ¥1.6 million buy? Well, at least enough for my summer thirst.
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@calr751
But his statement just helps to backup the already available documentary evidence. That a living surviving person can give his personal experience, which some others have also done including a doctor who kept a secret diary which he gave to the war crime trials, but it was never used.
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zichi
So now he says, there were in fact sex slaves and the military brothels were not necessary? This guy certainly is something of a major flip flopper. Time to get back to dealing with the problems in Osaka instead of seeking the limelight on the world stage.
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zichi
Nothing divine about it. Rightly or wrongly it only happened because Japan started a war it should have known it could never have won.
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zichi
So what will the deniers of the sex slaves say now, dismiss him for being senile or something, they'll won't accept his statement, especially some of the deniers on this forum. He could have spoken out much sooner along with tens of thousands of other troops who had first hand experience and knowledge of the military brothels. Still, better late than never.
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@JeffLee
and your contribution to the post was?
that's right, "Muslims again, eh? I thought as much."
???
Thank you for the insight.
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There are five reactors at the plant. 1&2 were shut down in 2009 for decommissioning. Last year they damage the No5 ABWR reactor by pumping sea water into it. It has to be rebuilt before being abled to be used.
CHUBU are spending ¥200 billion building that massive sea wall. Now needs to spend at least a further ¥150 billion to update the plant to meet the new safety standards.
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@JeffLee
Michael Olumide Adebolajo (27), was born in Lambeth in December 1984 to a Christian family, grew up in Romford. (Romford is part of Eat London). He converted to Islam in 2003 when he was serving time in prison for petty crime. He was using drugs and was drug dealing. Fearing he had become radicalised, his parents moved him away from Romford in 2004 to the well-to-do village of Saxilby, six miles from Lincoln. He studied sociology at Greenwich University.In 2004 and 2005 he was living in Greenwich. He was frequently seen on the streets of Woolwich preaching about Islam. He was known to the security forces since at least 2006 after a protest outside the Old Bailey.
"For the last three weeks he had been walking up and down the main street shouting and preaching. It was an obvious sign there was a mad man walking around," Mayur Patel, a local told leading British daily.
The second suspect is Michael Adebowale, 22, of Greenwich, south-east London. He's a university student, probably at Greenwich. British boen by Nigerian parents. His neighbours of his Greenwich flat haven't seen him for a few months.
So far, there are no reported links with any known terrorist group.
Before the start of the Iraq War in March 2003, there had been no British Islamic terrorist attacks in Britain.
Greenwich (most of Woolwich is part of Greenwich) is also a relatively deprived borough, with 62% of its ‘Lower Super Output Areas’ (LSOAs) in the bottom 30% of the country in the Index of Multiple Deprivation. Wards that include areas of extreme deprivation include Abbey Wood, Eltham West, Glyndon, Greenwich West, with Woolwich Common and Woolwich Riverside in the bottom 5% for London. These wards are concentrated along the waterfront, but with significant concentrations in the south of the borough as well.
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JeffLee
There are less than 20 Muslims in prison because of terrorist attacks, out of a Muslim population of nearly 3 million. The 1600 under surveillance are less than 0.05 of that population.
Why did Muslim terrorist attacks only started happening after 2001. Was it because of the Iraq war?
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JsffLee
So what you are saying it that before they started to arrest people there weren't any Islamic terrorist attacks. But since they started arresting people there have been 4 attacks?
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@JeffLee How many Islamic terrorists are in prison?
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@HonestDictator I don't support the Islamic religion, and in fact, I don't support any religions. I dislike all of them.
I don't believe the more than one million Muslims in the world are all Islamic terrorists. The majority of them are not.
We should at least try to understand why people like these two killers, are raised as Christians and then turn to Islam for solutions to their life problems. I think the causes run deep and its difficult to pin point any one aspect but young blacks in Britain suffer from too much police profiling. They have lower expectations, more long term unemployment, lower quality housing. All that builds up into hate, hate of authority, hate of the establishment. Maybe the radical and extreme ideas of Islam provided an outlet for their hatred?
From the information provided so far it does not seem that the killing was part of a terrorist group. They did attend some meetings of radical Islam groups but it don't seem like they were actual members. It does seem like they acted on their own
On mainland Britain during the 1970's there were 16 major terrorist attacks. 14 by the IRA, one by an anarchist group and one by the Black September Group.
In the 1980's, there were 10 terrorist attacks. 9 by the IRA and 1 by the Animal Rights Militia.
The 1990's was a bad decade with 24 terrorist attacks. 20 by the IRA. 2 against Jewish targets. 1 against a Sikh newspaper and another against blacks and gays.
In the 2000's there have been 11 terrorists attacks. 7 by the IRA and 4 by Islamic extremists.
From 1970 there were 61 terrorist attacks with 50 of them by the IRA, and 4 by Islamic extremists.
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The London Met Police have confirmed the murdered man was a soldier, he also served one tour of duty in Afghanistan. The police haven't released his identity. Soldiers in London have been advised not to wear their uniforms outside of their barracks.
Counter-terrorist officers have search the Lincolnshire home belonging to the father of one of the killers. The police have raided a house in Greenwich which is near to Woolwich and is the home of one of the suspects. The police took away, two sisters in their 30's, an older woman and a teenage boy. The police have also raided a flat in Essex belonging to a sister of one of the killers.
The killer in the videos with blood on his hands and holding a meat cleaver, is thought to be a Michael Adebolajo. Has a child he attended the Primary School near to the killing.
It was his father's home in Lincolnshire which was raided. He was also known to a banned Islamist organisation. Anjem Choudary, the former leader of the group, Al Muhajiroun, said the man converted to Islam in 2003 and was a British born Nigerian but had stopped attending meetings Al Muhajiroun and its successor organisations two years ago.
The second killer is believed to be a British citizen born in Nigeria.
The two suspects “were known to the security services”. Its not thought they belong to a terrorist group, and this is most likely a one-off event.
The media have been criticised for showing so many videos and photos but I suppose they would also quickly hit the internet anyway. With so many mobile phones on the street, criminal events like this one, and the recent one in Boston can become instant spectacles.
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@Thunderbird
*Its a deplorable act of violence regardless of whether the man killed was an army member or not.
*Its unclear until the gov't and police release the details if these two criminals are home grown Islamic terrorists or just two men who decided to vent their hatred and make their own actions.
*If the criminals survive their shootings, when the day for their punishment arrives they'll both receive the maximum life sentences regardless of whether they are terrorists or not. They won't get less or more time by whichever side of the coin they fall on.
*Until the gov't or the police release the details there are many unanswered questions.
@JeffLee
that's a very small number compared to the tens of thousands of black guys who are profiled by the police every single day.
I think everyone, but especially the gov't and the politicians need to keep this in perspective. Some of them are already calling for more laws, more access to anyone's emails and what people are doing on the internet.
And BTW, all that "around-the-clock highly sophisticated eavesdropping" did nothing to save the life of this young man.
In the days when the IRA were active on mainland Britain, tens of thousands of Irish people were under constant surveillance, just for being Irish!
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WilliB
In Burma in reacent attacks and killing of Muslims by Buddhists including Buddhist priests.
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There are more than 1 million Muslims living in Britain but it isn't a hotbed of Jihad terrorists. Less than 10 Muslim terrorists have been involved with attacks. The worse being the London 7/7 bombing which was by 4 terrorists.
Compare that with the number of terrorist and bombing attacks by the IRA.
So far, the police have not called this a terrorist attack.
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