If Japan deletes from books that their military used sex slaves does that mean it didn't happen?

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/Japan_says_it_stands_by_apology_on_WW2_sex_slaves.html?siteSect=143&sid=7595038&cKey=1173253134000

Japan says it stands by apology on WW2 sex slaves

By Elaine Lies

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan, under diplomatic fire for appearing to sidestep responsibility for forcing women to act as wartime sex slaves for its soldiers, said on Wednesday that the government stood by a 1993 apology acknowledging coercion.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stirred anger in China, Taiwan and South Korea with remarks last week appearing to question the state's role in forcing the mostly Asian women to act as prostitutes during World War Two, although he also said the earlier apology stood. snip

Despite the government apology, reference to "comfort women" -- Japan's euphemism for wartime sex slaves -- was deleted from many school textbooks in 2005, and some lawmakers in Abe's ruling party say that the 1993 statement should be watered down.

South Korea has expressed outrage over Abe's remarks and on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing urged Japan to confront its past on the topic and accept responsibility while Taiwan called on Japan to apologise and compensate the women.

[MrSlayer]

1. Eventually it will.

Not knowing it happened is the same as it not having happened at the end of the day.

[Solly Mack]

2. Exactly

the omission will be the truth

[Art_from_Ark]

3. Not necessarily

The Japanese Internet is full of discussions about "comfort women", or "ianfu" in Japanese

For example:

http://www.janjan.jp/world/0503/0503244913/1.php

http://www.jiyuu-shikan.org/frontline/noguchi/ianfu.html

http://www006.upp.so-net.ne.jp/nez/ian/panpan.htm

Here's the web site featuring photos and Japanese descriptions of the "Comfort Women Museum" that recently opened in South Korea:

http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/nanum/photo/index.html

[NewJeffCT]

4. Trust me, the Chinese have not forgotten

and will not be forgetting any time soon...

When I went over to China a few years back, the most common cars I saw were VWs and Buicks. If we actually made anything in our country anymore, we'd have a nice market to export to in China, as they would buy US products over Japanese ones.

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