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Comfort Women or Sex Slaves? More Photos from Redwood City Event
Leaders of Nadeshiko Action spoke in Redwood City to an audience of San Francisco Area based Japanese reporters last evening. One of their objectives was to get the word out to Japanese living in the US that the building of Comfort Woman memorial statues in Palisades Park, New Jersey and Glendale, California serves only to hurt US/Japan relations and paint Japanese in an unfair light. Outside the event, protesters said the goal of Nadeshiko Action is to whitewash the real history of 200,000 sex slaves in wartime Japan.
Leaders of Nadeshiko Action spoke in Redwood City to an audience of San Francisco Area based Japanese reporters last evening. One of their objectives was to get the word out to Japanese living in the US that the building of Comfort Woman memorial statues in Palisades Park, New Jersey and Glendale, California serves only to hurt US/Japan relations and paint Japanese in an unfair light. Outside the event, protesters said the goal of Nadeshiko Action is to whitewash the real history of 200,000 sex slaves in wartime Japan.
Top Photo: A member of Veterans for Peace spoke at the Rally outside the Nadeshiko Action event on December 13. He said that many Japanese his organization has been in touch with want peace, and are not happy with PM Shinzo Abe's right wing agenda.
Second photo: A demonstrator's sign says "From Ferguson to Japan Stop Racist Attacks". A member of Nadeshiko quietly studies the signs with interest.
Top Photo: A member of Veterans for Peace spoke at the Rally outside the Nadeshiko Action event on December 13. He said that many Japanese his organization has been in touch with want peace, and are not happy with PM Shinzo Abe's right wing agenda.
Second photo: A demonstrator's sign says "From Ferguson to Japan Stop Racist Attacks". A member of Nadeshiko quietly studies the signs with interest.
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I was very shocked by the news that 122 Korean women claimed that “we were the U.S. military SEX Slave”, and sued the class action lawsuit on June 25, 2014.
http://iamkoream.com/comfort-women-for-u-s-military-sue-south-korean-government/
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-07-11/news/sns-rt-us-southkorea-usa-military-20140711_1_u-s-forces-u-s-troops-human-trafficking
Not only the US army but also the Korean Government itself was very deeply committed to this Korean “SEX Slave” matter as an assailant of violence against women, in one commentator’s word, defenders of rape. If the issue is a human rights concern for the future of all nations, not a political propaganda to bully Japan and the Japanese, the Korean American Forum of California (KAFC), Ed Royce, and Mayor Chafee should not turn their face away from the inconvenient truth, SEX Slave enslaved by the US military and the Korean Government. They should not a hypocrite and blind nationalist. Why are they tolerating defenders of rape? Why isn’t the Korean American community arguing against it ?
Please read the following article by Washington Post on Aug.19, 2014. It criticizes Korean political lobby and politicians who pander extremely to Korean lobby for votes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/pandering-to-northern-vas-koreans-is-going-to-extremes/2014/08/19/f9032eea-271e-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FxF4S5nrLBAJ:http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/blog/did-korea-organize-u-s-comfort-women/+&cd=1&hl=ja&ct=clnk&gl=jp
http://iamkoream.com/comfort-women-for-u-s-military-sue-south-korean-government/
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-07-11/news/sns-rt-us-southkorea-usa-military-20140711_1_u-s-forces-u-s-troops-human-trafficking
Not only the US army but also the Korean Government itself was very deeply committed to this Korean “SEX Slave” matter as an assailant of violence against women, in one commentator’s word, defenders of rape. If the issue is a human rights concern for the future of all nations, not a political propaganda to bully Japan and the Japanese, the Korean American Forum of California (KAFC), Ed Royce, and Mayor Chafee should not turn their face away from the inconvenient truth, SEX Slave enslaved by the US military and the Korean Government. They should not a hypocrite and blind nationalist. Why are they tolerating defenders of rape? Why isn’t the Korean American community arguing against it ?
Please read the following article by Washington Post on Aug.19, 2014. It criticizes Korean political lobby and politicians who pander extremely to Korean lobby for votes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/pandering-to-northern-vas-koreans-is-going-to-extremes/2014/08/19/f9032eea-271e-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FxF4S5nrLBAJ:http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/blog/did-korea-organize-u-s-comfort-women/+&cd=1&hl=ja&ct=clnk&gl=jp
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