Admitting Quote by Elise Hu

“After this meeting, responsibility for the comfort stations was divided between Yosano and Colonel C.F. Sams, Chief of the US Public Health and Welfare…

— S.J. Friedman

The comfort-women agreement that we made with Japan during the last administration is not accepted by the people of Korea, particularly by the victims.…

— Moon Jae-in

The first comfort women didn't actually come forward until 1992, and since then, the issue has really been kicked up. Japan issued a 1993…

— Elise Hu

Japan admitted the Imperial Army ordered the building of these brothels and the trafficking of the women. And now that it's been 70 years,…

— Elise Hu

I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human…

— Shinzo Abe

And that said, this [issues of comfort women] is important for reopening a conversation in both Japan and in Korea and on their respective…

— Elise Hu

My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize

— Anonymous

“Killing Japanese didn’t bother me at that time. It was getting the war over with that bothered me. So I wasn’t worried particularly about…

— Ronald Schaffer

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

— Chuck Grassley

After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered…

— Martin Jacques

I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

— Joseph Stalin

It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and…

— Anthony Bourdain