Is there any adult in America who doesn't know that during World War II America locked up Japanese people during World War II? How many Americans know, however, about the 200,000 sex slaves held by the Japanese? According to FoxNews:
She shaved her head to make herself unattractive. She hid — once in a tree.
She huddled together and prayed with the other captive "comfort
women" — a euphemism for the up to 200,000 women who historians say were
forced to have sex with millions of Japanese soldiers during the war. She
punched and kicked and screamed, even though it invariably meant she was beaten
worse.
"Never did any Japanese rape me without a fight. I fought each one of
them," she said Thursday at a House Foreign Affairs Asia subcommittee hearing
where three former comfort women pleaded with U.S. lawmakers to adopt a
resolution urging Japan to formally apologize.
The memories of being raped and beaten day and night, even by the doctor
who examined her for venereal disease, "have tortured my mind all my life," said
O'Herne, a former Dutch colonist born in Java who now lives in Australia. "I
have forgiven the Japanese for what they did to me, but I can never
forget."
I have an uncle whose identical twin brother was a Japaneese POW during World War II. He didn't look like his identical twin when he got out.
America has apologized and made restitution for illegally imprisoning Japanese Americans. If Japan has never formally apologized for their atrocities, it is long past time that they do so.
