protest - The successful Japanese push to revise history

ESWN has an excellent dissection of the background of the ongoing Chinese anti-Japanese protests: the success of the Japanese ultra-right movement to revise its country's history. It puts the focus there where it should be: in Japan. Worth your attention.
First, they started to ask questions about the history, with the purpose of planting doubts:

Example: The "comfort women"? Were all of them forced into sex slavery? Well, apparently, some "comfort women" actually "voluntarily" went into service because they could earn a better living than staying home. The Japanese military's paper trail does not identify who is who. Was the ratio 20%-80% or 80%-20%? Nobody knows, so any surviving "comfort women" today may just be a willing participant back then. Therefore, the "comfort women" phenomenon may just be a matter of exaggeration. All we can say is that 'experts' are in disagreement.

After that, 'the market' was ready for the ultra-right view on the Japanese history.


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