[Gaffer]

A group of 187 scholars of Japanese and East Asian studies have called on Japan to accurately address its history of colonial rule and wartime actions, particularly the so-called “comfort women” who were forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels

A bit off topic here but I am reminded of something a group of our own "Constitutional Historians", 400 of them, did in back in 1998. The difference in motives and goals is quite stark.

Of course I am referring to the NYT full page ad that over 400 noted constitutional historians placed in 1998 to attest that they did not believe that [and I distill and paraphrase here] a "BJ" is not an impeachable offense.

[Historians spring an 'October Surprise', Walter Burns, WSJ, Nov 3, 1998]

[faithhopecharity]

well, i never got too excited about Clinton’s BJ (possibly because it was his and not mine?)

my Dad watched the BoobToob about it...for 13 months ‘full coverage’ ... day in and day out...he got angrier and angrier that almost all they kept taking about was Clinton’s BJ . when Dad wanted to hear about a number of other things

Finally Dad exploded (you could see this coming for a year)... he said but one thing, .... that “I don’t give a damn about Clinton and Monica. But maybe its a good thing... beacuse the more he’s screwing her, the less time he has to screw the rest of us!”

As for an impeachable offense, maybe not really, and if he were President of France they’d give him a state medal for it.