Abe's denial

• 'Comfort stations' existed in Australian territory in WWII: historian
• Japan MPs: No massacre in Nanking; 'we only killed 20,000'
  
• US lawmakers to size up Japan on 'comfort women'
• U.S. unhappy with Japanese comfort women ad
• Japan lawmakers deny comfort women crimes in Washington Post ad
• Japan's another bid to white wash war crimes
• UN criticizes Japan on sex slaves
• Okinawans protest over Abe's revision of war history
• Asian-Canadian groups put pressure on Canadian, Japanese governments
• Japan schools to teach patriotism despite opposition's nationalism fear
• S.Korea: Japan is reviving wartime aggression
• North Korea blasts Japan's missile defence move
• China concerns over Japan constitution plan
• Poll finds 62% of Japanese don't want constitutional change
• Japanese support for constitutional change plummets
• Referendum aims to prevent teachers to preach pacifist constitution
• New evidence emerges from Dutch government archives on 'Comfort Women'
• Hideki Tojo's granddaughter runs for election to 'repair image'
• S. Korean education minister delivers letter protesting Japan's history distortion
• Abe's offering to Yasukuni Shrine raises state-religion separation questions
• Beijing urges restraint on Yasukuni issue
• Koreans angry over Abe's offering to Yasukuni Shrine
• Japan PM sent war shrine offering but did not go
• Sex slave dispute follows Abe even as he bonds with Bush
• Abe's 'carefully scripted' comments not acknowledge coercion: expert
• East Timor former sex slaves start speaking out
• Bush satisfied with Abe's 'apology' over comfort women
• Nanjing's only known comfort women dies
• Nanjing's only surviving WWII sex slave is dying
• ALPHA's reactions to Japanese court denying Chinese war slaves' claim
• Sex slave issue unlikely to mar Abe's U.S. visit
• Japan's ultra nationalism is hurting US interests in Asia
• Japan accepts post-WWII war crimes tribunal findings on 'comfort women'
• Japanese support for constitutional change plummets
• Protestors demand 'thorough discussion' to defacify Japan
• Academics claim proof Japan forced WW2 sex slaves
• Documents show Japan directed sex slavery: historian
• Abe: Ahmadinejad of the Far East
• Seven questions: Japan's sex slaves problem
• LETTER: Double standard for European, Asian histories?
• Canada as an ally should frandly tell Japan to admit war crimes, not avoiding: ALPHA
  
• It's time for Japan to 'reconsider responsibility': former lawyers' chief
  
• Politics is about surprises
  
• Canada will review Abe's apology, comfort women issue, PM's right-hand man promises
• Former PM: Japan has no choice than to live in harmony with neighbours
• Germany is forgiven while Japan continues to sin
  
• 'Comfort women': Japan's willful amnesia
• Abe vows to face up to history
• Japan's wartime deeds not easily forgotten in China
• Vancouver group's petition demands apology for wartime 'sex slaves'
• N. Korea slams Japan's distortion of history textbooks
• Former 'comfort women' speak out against Japan's denial
• How ethically advanced is Japan?
• Okinawans outraged by Japan's cover-up attempt of military-urged mass suicides
• Japan, Nazi war crime documents declassification project completes
• 'Comfort house' manager who commanded sex slaves is enshrined in Yasukuni
• Beyond apology, moral clarity
• Documents renew call to separate state from religion in Japan
• Japan's ultra nationalism alerts US
  
• Abe plays with words on sex slavery 'apology'
  
• Japan’s textbooks reflect revised history: NYT
• In Japan, a historian stands by proof of wartime sex slavery
• Japanese lawmakers call for alternative to controversial shrine
• 'Comfort women' scandal shines international light on wartime rape and abuse
• Another denial: Japan changes textbook about mass suicide orders
• Kono: Denying the 'comfort women' issue is 'intellectually insincere'
• What Japan needs is a conscience, not more evidence
• Military record of 'comfort woman' unearthed
• Abe: abductee issue is ongoing, comfort women issue isn't
• Japan's sex-slave controversy has economic costs
• Japanese lawmakers call for alternative to controversial shrine
• Abe denies government link to enshrine war criminals
• S. Korea demands Japan to clarify gov role in Yasukuni Shrine
• Documents confirm state's role in enshrining convicted Japanese war criminals
• Abe's new clothes
• Canadian parliamentarians demand Japan's compensation of comfort women
• Japan avoids full apology for war sex slavery
• Though apologizes, Abe still refuses to accept state involvement in recruiting comfort women
• U.S. says Japan should be more forthright, responsible on comfort women
• US ethnic media's reactions to Abe's apology
• ALPHA's reaction to Abe's apology
• Japan PM apology on sex slaves
• Chan believes comfort women motion would pass
• Shinzo Abe's double talk: Washington Post editorial
• U.S. groups call on lawmakers to pass resolution on comfort women
• Japan still abuses women today, North Korea says
• Japan's cabinet reiterates Abe's sex slave denial
• Former Taiwanese comfort women demand apology from Japan
• Abe's denial prevent supporters to move past history debate: scholars
• 10-year-old transcript carries Japan PM's denial of comfort women, saying women are lying Dutch govt seeks Janpanese explanation on "comfort women" issue
• MacKay covers for Japan
• Wen's Japan visit cut short in response to Abe's sex slave denial
• Olivia Chow calls on Canada to rebuke Japan PM's sex slave denial
• Nationalism can’t erase Japan’s crimes
• Nanjing Massacre, Yasukuni Shrine included in history talks
• Wen's Japan visit cut short in response to Abe's sex slave denial
• Japan confronts history
• Rep. Honda riles Japan over brothel apology
• Abe pressed again on sex slavery
• Chinese Canadians should target Japan, not my government: Harper
• War history worries cloud Japan security pact
• Communities, MPs demand Ottawa to condemn Japan's war crime denial
• Japan's uncomfortable history
• 'Denial of unimaginable atrocities by Japanese army shouldn't be tolerated': Honda
• Japan PM tries damage control over WW2 sex slaves
• Sex slave history erased from texts; '93 apology next?
• Canada quick to defend Abe's war crimes denial
• Japan is dishonoured by efforts to contort the truth: NYT editorial blasts
• Denial reopens wounds of Japan's ex-sex slaves
• In Asia, the past divides and alienates
• Abe says LDP to conduct fresh investigation into comfort women
• Philippine wartime sex slaves call Japanese prime minister 'liar' for denying evidence
• China demands Japan to face up to wartime sex crimes
• Japan's amnesia
  
• Why Germany and Japan handle history so differently?
• Abe says no apology on comfort women even pressed by US congress
• Abe's Violent Denial: Japan's Prime Minister and the 'Comfort Women'
• Sex slave denial angers S Korea
  
• Comfort women denial aims to show independence from U.S.
  
• Chinese-Canadians ask Ottawa to denounce Abe's comments
  
• Chinese, Koreans sold their daughters as sex slaves during war: Japanese right-winger
  
• Roh says Japan should respect history
  
• Japan PM now says 'comfort women' not coerced

See also:










Watch how he denies:
A collection of comfort women denials by Abe et al:




What's on the hawkists' minds:


PBS weekly Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek, April 2007:



Abe reinstated the Kono Statement but refused to accept state involvement on March 16:


Congressman Honda testifies in support of "comfort women":


Japan TV: US's hands are dirty too:


CBC feature on comfort women April 2007:


KRON-TV comfort women feature 2001:



External Links:

Support House Resolution 121 on Facebook
Support121.org
Comfort Women: an unfinished ordeal
Comfort-Women.org
Taiwanese Comfort Women
"Comfort Women" and Their Compensation Issue
The Korean Council for the Women
Two Tigers
LABAN! Fight for Comfort Women
Compensating Comfort Women of WWII
Teaching guide to the history of comfort women
Filipina "Comfort Women"
"Voices of comfort women", American University Library
The Global V-Day Campaign for Justice to 'Comfort Women'
Judicial Proceedings in Japan: Comfort Women
Comfort women bibliography
Harbinger