The issue of Japan’s responsibility for the so-called “comfort women” system has long been controversial.

Nobody disputes that in the 1930s and 1940s military brothels existed throughout Japan’s colonial and semi- colonial East and Southeast Asian occupied areas, but Japanese neonationalists insist that the system was “merely” the commonly practiced one of military prostitution, the women professional prostitutes, and the organization independent of the Japanese army or government.

We can’t sweep it under the carpet anymore