Chorus of Blaming Comfort Woman Issue

It was predictable enough. In spite of that, the leaders in Japan pretended to be look like being surprised, as if saying “Oh, I didn’t expect he would say such a thing.” Give us a break. They simply have no gut to improve relationship with South Korea.

President of the United States, Barack Obama, for the first time criticized Japan’s hiring comfort women in the wartime in the joint press conference with the President of South Korea, Park Geun-hye. “[T]his was a terrible, egregious violation of human rights,” Obama blamed Japan with highly unusual expression. “I think Prime Minister Abe recognizes, and certainly Japanese people recognizes, that the past is something that has to be recognized honestly and fairly,” added Obama.

No, Barack. Abe does not want to recognize it. Certain amount of people in Japan does the same. Suffering from the great earthquake and being taken over by China as the leading economy in Asia, the mind of part of the Japanese people shrank to the extent that they cannot afford to maintain such a compassionate sentiment over what they had done to the neighbors. That is what the president of a Pacific country needs to remind. Because U.S. could not understand China’s real ambition, this Asian giant became as big as unstoppable. Distinguish lies from truths, Barack.

Park was sober enough. “[P]rogress cannot achieved by efforts of a single party. And, therefore, in this regard, I really look forward to efforts made by the Japanese side,” said Park. Although Abe stated that he would abide by Kono Statement, which recognized Japan’s apology for comfort women, Koreans are not fully satisfied with that, because those announcements were undermined time after time.

Looking at the timing of U.S.-South Korea summit meeting, Abe added a comment on this issue. “My heart aches when I think about women with unspeakable, hard experience,” said Abe. Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, Katsunobu Kato, told that this should not be political issue, raising Abe’s comment. Kato must have thought that all were set by Abe’s comment. That is something Japanese leaders are innocent in world politics.

As well as visit to Yasukuni Shrine, comfort women issue is a powerful engine for South Korea to reach China. In the time U.S. is in need of help from allies for its Asia-Pacific rebalancing, those issues are nothing but disturbances of U.S. interest. Abe keeps on saying that Japan-U.S. alliance is indispensable one. But he ignores the consequence his unilateral activity has caused.

Before coming back to the national leadership, Abe once denounced Democratic Party of Japan as “exhaling lies.” Now, lies are coming out from Abe’s mouth. That is what U.S. needs to know.