Jottings from the Granite Studio

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History and Memory: Japan, China, and "Comfort Women"

March 8th, 2007 · 6 Comments

What a horrible euphemism: “comfort women.” Just needed to be said.
A recent article by Howard French in the IHT’s Letter from China series begins:
Imagine a world where Germany denied the Holocaust, the United States denied the slaughter of Native Americans and Europe denied organizing its immensely profitable and centuries-long trans-Atlantic trade in African slaves.
Why would [...]

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