Seventy years have passed since the Nanking Massacre.\u00a0 The Nanking Massacre is undeniable, because it was witnessed and well documented at that time by many people, including western journalists, businessmen, diplomats, missionaries, and other international observers.\u00a0 However, the Japanese government has never officially (i.e., with a resolution passed by their Parliament) admitted to the Nanking Massacre, or other atrocities committed by the Japanese military during WWII, even though descriptions of these atrocities have also been found in the diaries and recorded interviews of former Japanese soldiers.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, many Japanese leaders and the Japanese mass media have said on many occasions that there were no such atrocities, and that those atrocities were fabricated by the Chinese.\u00a0 An example of such statement was the one made in March 2007 by the then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who denied that during WWII the Japanese military had forced foreign women into sexual slavery, euphemistically called Comfort Women.<\/p>\n
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Unlike the German government who has admitted its holocaust atrocities during WWII and paid compensations to the victims or their families, the Japanese government has not done likewise.\u00a0 How much longer does the world have to wait before justice is done?\u00a0 It seems that unless both significant political pressure and economic pressure are applied to the Japanese government, justice will not be achieved, and there will be no assurance that such atrocities will not be repeated again in the future, in Asia or other parts of the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is heartening to see that recently the governments of several countries have passed resolutions condemning the actions of the Japanese military associated with Comfort Women and called on the Japanese government to officially acknowledge, apologize, and accept historical responsibility for these actions.<\/p>\n
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