Now Canada Considers Pressing Japan For Comfort Women Apology

[Mulboyne]

[floatl][/floatl]CBC: 'Comfort women' ask Canada to press Japan for apology
Korean Jeomdol Jang was only 14 when Japanese soldiers abducted her from a train station and put her to work as a sex slave. Jang, now 85, recalled at a news conference in Ottawa on Tuesday how she was on her way to her aunt's place when the soldiers approached her. "A man came up to me and said 'I have work for you at a factory so stay here'," she said through a translator. She was taken to Manchuria and placed in a house where soldiers raped her daily...Jang shared her tale of hardship as part of a coalition's request for the Canadian government to help the women win compensation and an apology from the Japanese government...Toronto New Democrat MP Olivia Chow has tabled a motion calling for the government to urge the Japanese prime minister to pass a resolution in the Diet to formally apologize to the women and compensate them...more...

[Mulboyne]

Reuters: Canada votes to urge Japan apology for sex slaves

Canada's Parliament formally called on Japan on Wednesday to apologize for forcing more than 200,000 women to work as sex slaves for its soldiers both before and during World War Two. Junior government minister Jason Kenney referred to "an unthinkable evil that happened some 60 years ago," words which prompted loud applause in Parliament...Legislators unanimously backed a nonbinding motion urging Tokyo to offer a full, formal apology to the women, and condemning what it said were recent attempts by Japanese officials to play down what had happened. Japan said it regretted the vote, which it said would not help bilateral relations...more...

[2triky]

Reuters: Canada votes to urge Japan apology for sex slaves

If the Japanese goverment didn't even want to acknowlege the mass forced suicides of Okinawans, I doubt this proposal is going anywhere.

[dimwit]

The resolution seems to have been proposed by Olivia Chow who is on the extreme left of the New Democratic Party. Unlike the Dutch, Austrailian, English, Chinese and Koreans very few if any Canadian were forced to work as sex slaves during WWII due to the fact that at the time Canadian Pacific interests were minor. A few immigrants may have been forced to work as sex slaves, but for any Canadian who still care about these things the treatment of Canadian POW's sent to defend Hong Kong is a far more serious issue.