[markomalley]

Assuming the AP didn't mis-report this, there are two words:

Just.

Wow.

[DesertRhino]

Thats such backwards thinking they engaged in. They should have simply destroyed families, and opened frontline Japanese army units to female soldiers. Just let the 20 year old boys and girls mix naturally in the intense emotional caulron of a war zone.

Thats the way our revolutionary socialist government does it.

[Cowboy Bob]

Gen. Hooker had them too... But they weren’t slaves. Jeez!

[Hardraade]

Japanese culture is pretty odd, sexwise, even today. Probably world leader in pedophilia. And check out such things as hentai and ecchi.

[BluH2o]

When I was in the Corps we had ‘comfort women’ waiting for us at fleet landing ... they always seemed to know the next port of call. Cost you for any ‘comfort’ provided (if you were so inclined) and the price varied ... first few days in port it was always higher.

[dsc]

“co-leader of an emerging conservative political party”

Conservative? Oh, you vile media slimebuckets.

The WWII militarists called themselves Nazis, but those who follow in their footsteps are “conservatives?”

[RC one]

Yeah? Well so were the A- bombs. No hard feelings.

[cynwoody]

Just.

Wow.

Just nuke-worthy.

[SeminoleCounty]

Mexican Drug Cartels have the same attitude towards when...and both Des and GOP are giving them Amnesty. Maybe the Japanese sex slavers can get in line for Amnesty too

[Vendome]

Comfort women. It’s a national obligation.

[Joe Boucher]

Seems the Korean ladies forced in to being” comfort ladies” weren’t too willing nor happy about this.
Is it any wonder Koreans and Chineese still Hate the japs?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Bakka tare !

[BobL]

If Japan wants to rationalize this crap, they better have a military ready to stand up to China...because few people would have trouble understanding why China might feel justified to go in there and clean up their (Japan’s) perception of history a bit.

[sickoflibs]

Given Japan's weak and venerable position in the modern world, overshadowed by a massive modernized China.
I can see how pre-cold war Japan (1900 to 1940s) history would breed nostalgia with them. After all, that tiny country dominated Eastern Asia and all those islands for decades.

Immoral but at least relevant.

[Zhang Fei]

I think the guy’s a bit of a goofball, at least in this area:

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Hashimoto said he recently visited Okinawa in southern Japan and told the U.S. commander there “to make better use of the sex industry.”

“He froze, and then with a wry smile said that is off-limits for the U.S. military,” he said.

“I told him that there are problems because of such formalities,” Hashimoto said, explaining that he was not referring to illegal prostitution but to places operating within the law. “If you don’t make use of those places you cannot properly control the sexual energy of those tough guys.”

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Now, the average Asian politician would take hypocritical umbrage at the idea of foreigners soiling (from their perspective) the bodies and reputations of their womenfolk. Not Hashimoto.