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FM condemns remarks on 'comfort women'
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-06-14 08:36
China strongly condemns the remarks of a senior Japanese official denying the
existence of "comfort women", said Liu Jianchao, spokesman of Chinese Foreign
Ministry in Beijing Monday.
Japanese Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Nariaki
Nakayama said in a public address Saturday that there were originally no such
words as "comfort women," so it was good that the "incorrect" description was
removed from school textbooks.
Liu said it is known to all that the "comfort women" system was a serious
crime committed by the Japanese militarists during World War II, and the overt
denial of this ugly history by a Japanese cabinet member who is in charge of
education seriously hurts the feelings of the peoples of the victim countries.
"Comfort women" is a euphemism used in Japan to describe women forced into
sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army in Japan's aggression war against
its Asian neighbors before and during World War II.
Nakayama's remarks have been strongly criticized and protested by the
Republic of Korea, China and many other Asian countries from which many women
were forced to serve as "comfort women" for Japanese army during the war.
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