U.S. lawmaker pushes Japan to treat ‘comfort women’ as human rights issue

A key member of the U.S. Congress who is pressing the Japanese government to issue a thorough apology for the wartime “comfort women” system urged Tokyo on Thursday to view the matter as a human rights issue, not as a political spat between nations.

“The comfort women issue is not one of pitting Japan against South Korea. There are fewer than 100 former comfort women survivors. Japan needs to offer a formal and unequivocal apology and memorialize the issue in its textbooks,” Mike Honda, a Democratic congressman from California’s Silicon Valley area, said during a telephone news conference.

Source: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/03/06/national/politics-diplomacy/u-s-lawmaker-pushes-japan-to-treat-comfort-women-as-human-rights-issue/#.U3BDUYF_tO8 

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