日本首相安倍说日本不会为二战期间的慰安妇问题道歉, 这是CNN关于南韩对此的反应的报道.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is standing firm, saying his government will not apologize for forcing women across Asia to be sex-slaves during WWII. Global pressure is mounting against Japan to make the apology. The US House of Representatives is considering a resolution demanding the government do just that, but, Abe is not budging.
“I should say we will not apologize just because a resolution was adopted,” he says. The US Congress heard testimony last month from women who described being captured by Japanese authorities and repeatedly raped in military brothels. Seventy-nine-year-old Yi Yongsou was only a teenager then.
“The Japanese dragged us there,” she says, “They forced us. And now, they are saying this never happened.”
Many Japanese politicians and scholars deny any direct government involvement.
“I think, probably, there were not any women that willingly did it,” says Abe, “but there might be cases in which middle agents forced women to do it.”
But the sentiment on Tokyo streets reflected the desire to resolve the issue once and for all.
“If women were treated like that, then we must apologize,” says this Japanese woman.
This Japanese office worker thought Abe was inconsiderate.
The Prime Minister is fighting a slumping pose. Opposition politicians say his stands could endanger Japan’s standing in the international community.
In South Korea where many of the sex slaves like Lee came from, the reaction is emotional.
“The civic group that represents the so-called comfort women released the statement saying that Japan should be ashamed of itself and called upon Abe to be big enough to admit to the Japanese government’s sins.”
Major South Korean political parties harshly criticized the Japanese leader.
“Prime Minister Abe must immediately take back his words,” says the spokesperson for the majority opposition Grand Nation Party, “The Japanese government must apologize, repent and assure the international community that such words would never again be spoken.”
WWII ended more than sixty years ago, but, this is one wound from the conflict that still is not healed.
Sohn Jie-Ae, CNN, Seoul.
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