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Comfort women Edit

In 1993, following multiple testimonies the Kono Statement was issued by Japanese Government confirming that coercion was involved in seizing the comfort women. This was the first time that the Japanese government acknowledged any form of coercion in the process of recruiting comfort women. ….. In 1993, following multiple testimonies the Kono Statement was issued by Japanese Government confirming that coercion was involved in seizing the comfort women.[82][83] In 2007, the Japanese government made a cabinet decision, "No evidence was found that the Japanese army or the military officials seized the women by force." [84][85] In 2014 Yoshihide Suga has formed a team to reexamine the background of the report.[86] The review brought to a light that coordination between Japan and South Korea in the process of composing the statement and concluded that at the request of Seoul, Tokyo stipulated coercion was involved in recruiting the women.[87] After the review, Suga and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stated that Japan continues to uphold the Kono Statement. However, debates about this claim have erupted since Abe paid respect to the Yasukuni shrine, where some of the WWII criminals are buried in.

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