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Comfort Women: Articles, historical documents and other sources about the “ianfu." Est. March 2007. "Blog" by a former head of NHK TV, Noburo Ikeda who was forced to resign after he allowed the station to be intimidated by politicians wanting to change the content of a program on the Comfort Women. Blog posts familiar, English-language articles disputing the Comfort Women’s history.
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Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact [Shijitsu wo sekai ni hasshin suru kai] Est. 2007. In English. Volunteers seeking inform the western world of the true Japanese view of history. Topics the Nanking Incident, Manchuria, Comfort Women, and Yasukuni Shrine. Japanese site features a blog.
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Falcon Breaking News [Hayabusa sokuhou] Blog by Heijiro Ise, real name: Nobuyoshi Ozaki, a retired Japanese businessman who lives in Louisiana. He is heading a campaign to sue or at least to unseat Congressmen Honda and Lantos for libeling Japan’s honor on the Comfort Women issue. Japanese Only.
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Embassy of Japan in U.S. Comfort Women Issue Page. States the current government of Japan's position toward H. Res. 121.
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Is the US House Wartime Comfort-Women Resolution Prelude to Japan’s “Death and Surrender”? By Kazuhiko Togo, former Ambassador to the Netherlands, In GENDAI, September 2007, (abridged translation), 4pgs.
- “No Justice, No Peace” essay by Mindy L. Kotler, Director, Asia Policy Point, republished on the Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network: Policy Forum Online, August 7, 2007. This article was originally published by the Joongang Ilbo.
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“U.S. Archives Show Americans Too Were ‘Comfort Women’ to Japan: Honda Says H.R. 121 to get floor vote before August,” By Rita M. Gerona-Adkins, Asian Fortune, August 2007.
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July 31, 2007 letter sent to all the members of the U..S House of Representatives protesting the passage of H. Res. 121, signed by Mr. Hideaki Kase, the chairman of the Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact.
- APP Director was guest blogger on July 30, 2007 at Steven Clemons’s The Washington Note on the passage of H. Res. 121.
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All Signatories to the June 14 Washington Post "The Facts" Advertisement, Research by Asia Policy Point, 7/25/2007, 24 pgs.
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Response to the Statement of the Embassy of Japan Regarding the June 14 Ad on Comfort Women, Asia Policy Point Brief, 6/25/2007, 3 pgs.
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Japanese Ambassador to the United States Ryozo Kato letter to House Leadership urging them to stop H.Res. 121 because passage would "have lasting and harmful effects" on the U.S.-Japan relationship. 6/22/2007, 4 pgs.
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Trafficking in Persons: U.S. Policy and Issues for Congress, Congressional Research Service Report, June 20, 2007, RL33200, 38 pgs.
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Who They Are: Signatories to The Washington Post, June 14th “Open Letter to Congress on the Comfort Women Issue,” Short Biographies and Recent Published Thoughts of the Five Main Supporters, Prepared by Asia Policy Point, 6/19/07, 5 pgs.
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Understanding The Embassy of Japan’s Assertions on Comfort Women: Liberties Taken With Facts and Language, Prepared by Asia Policy Point, 6/6/07, 12 pgs.
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Prime Minister Abe and his Government Disavow Notion of an “Apology” in Washington, An Asia Policy Point Brief, 6/1/2007, 1 pg.
- Jan Ruff-O’Herne letter to Speaker Pelosi, Defending the Human Rights of “Comfort Women” and in Support of H.Res.121. The Hill, 5/22/2007.
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Did Abe Apologize to the Comfort Women in His Meeting on Capitol Hill? is an APP discussion of what the Japanese Prime Minister said to congressional leaders. The short answer is not really. He simply expressed a personal and stilted feeling of sympathy to their ordeal. (4/27/07)
- Comfort Women Support Resolution adopted by Chicago Chapter of Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). 4/11/2007, 2 pgs.
- Japanese Military's “Comfort Women” System by Larry Niksch, Specialist in Asian Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division, Congressional Research Service, April 3, 2007, 23 pgs. “The debate over coercion in the recruitment of comfort women in 2007 has obscured the broader issue of whether comfort women were in the system on a voluntarily or involuntarily basis. There is no doubt from the available evidence that most comfort women were in the system involuntarily if one defines involuntarily to include entering the system in response to deceptive recruitment. There appears to have been little of a genuinely voluntarily nature to the system.” [Ed. This is an update of a report first issued April 10, 2006, 11 pgs. APP members who would like a copy of the first report please, contact us.]
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What Constitutes an Official Government Statement in Japan with Special Reference to Apologies for Comfort Women, An Asia Policy Point Brief, 4/17/07, 3 pgs.
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Nakasone: Board Games, not Rape, by Richard Lloyd Parry, The Times, 3/26/07.
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| Statements by Members of the U.S. House of Representatives |
- Speaker Pelosi Press Release on 'Comfort Women' Resolution. 7/30/2007.
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Press Release on Passage of Comfort Women resolution H. Res. 121. 7/30/2007, 1 pg.
- Congressional Record of H. Res. 121 passage. 7/30/2007.
- Speech of Hon. David Wu of Oregon: Government of Japan to Apologize, in The House of Representatives. Monday, July 30, 2007.
- Speech of Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii in the Senate urging the House not to adopt H. Res. 121. Monday, July 9, 2007.
- Speech of Hon. Edolphus Towns of New York in The House of Representatives to Welcome PM Shinzo Abe of Japan to Washington. Thursday, April 26, 2007.
- Rep Mike Honda’s ‘Dear Colleague’ letter, April 20, 2007.
- U.S. Senator Inouye’s March 5, 2007 private letter to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Leadership urging them to not consider H. Res. 121.
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Protecting the Human Rights of Comfort Women, congressional testimony by APP Director Mindy Kotler copyedited for the final hearing report. (3/2/07)
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