{"id":109,"date":"2015-12-26T21:35:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T21:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comfortwomenpetition.org\/?p=109"},"modified":"2016-01-12T19:08:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T19:08:41","slug":"learning-from-past-best-way-to-move-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comfortwomenpetition.org\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Learning from past best way to move forward (The Japan Times)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Japan Times<\/a><\/h1>\n

Opinion<\/h2>\n

December 26, 2015<\/p>\n

Criticism is always fair game. When it borders on make-believe it is worth correcting. In his Dec. 20 letter<\/a> to the editor regarding the article \u201c50 Japanese scholars fire back in McGraw-Hill sex slave row<\/a>\u201d in the Dec. 12 issue, Jason Morgan\u2019s intentionally misreads my words to create scurrilous fantasy.<\/p>\n

Morgan asserts that I compare Imperial Japan to Boko Haram. I do nothing of the sort. Instead, I state that, \u201cI think of Boko Haram and (the Islamic State group\u2019s) current use of sexual slavery as a weapon of war critical to why denying away historical evidence is so deeply retrograde.\u201d<\/p>\n

The history of Japan\u2019s state-sponsored militarized system of sexual slavery is an international history. Learning from past wrongdoings \u2014 which a majority of Japanese and the world community hold the awful \u201ccomfort women\u201d system to be \u2014 is precisely how societies (including the historians among them) can endeavor to make our current and future worlds more just.<\/p>\n

The denialists among us aim otherwise.<\/p>\n

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