["It's not the same women,"] weren't other asian women allegedly raped and forced into prostitution ?? What makes the Korean or the Chinese story more compelling then their stories ? It's money ! They care nothing about an apology. If the Koreans can make a story big enough then the end result is a cash pay out.
In North America, there is a history of sexual slavery and abuse against African Americans, did those people get a formal apology from the U.S. government for years of state sanctioned brutality and rapes ? What about
African American "comfort womens' issues?" In the case of Korea and China, it was part of the spoils of war to force women into prostitution and slavery. That wasn't the case during the North Atlantic Slave Trade. Human beings were forced to sleep with and pro-create with their masters whether they liked it or not, or face brutal beatings and even murders.
You're story is nothing more than a plea for money and pity !
Since I personally have never mentioned the money aspect before, only the excuse one, as you can read clearly, if you only try, I rebuff that nonsense, that you wish to project onto me.
Also this is not an african nor US forum thread, thus its of no relevance here, because that is other people's concern and absolutely no excuse for some japanese behavior.
Its not spoils of "war", its spoils of humans on humans, such cheap excuses from you were absolutely NO reason for stopping the Nuernberg processes in Germany, for example. In contrary, according to human rights.
The facts, that others did it too, did NOT give anyone the right, to also do and accept it.
Actually, there is something like Schmerzensgeld (try to find a translation, please), that is very well an issue (and VERY official reason in severe cases!) for lawsuits. We have this all the time, all over the world. And the Schmerzensgeld is defined by the amout of emotional terror, pain versus the present material ability of the one, who caused this. There would generally be nothing wrong at all, to claim it thus, if they so wish.
If the japanese law does not have this term, then it is beyond human rights, by the way, and may well become an international issue, if that comes out to the open.
Thats, why also Germans have to pay for other pains than just forced prostitution, like slave working as one other example. Some lawsuits are still not all cleared, but on the table, and many claimers win them. Nothing new.
If you judge all those hurt ones by one case (and that was not even the posted video one), that may have come out as a lie (although it might have been only partly, I am sure, because it says nothing about, how it all started for her), it does in no way say, that all other cases were too. Its just a
very closeminded generalisastion to think so.
You may as the next step say, that all women wish to be raped, since you are obviously not opposed to this. . .I would not be surprised, to hear this rubbish here.
And once you make a woman a prostitute by force, that does not give you the right afterwards, to blame her for being one, because she is trapped and thus forced into this. In contrary. We have several cases here of for example russians, trapped that way,
and its always a very severe crime-case, against those, who trapped and forced them, not the women!
Any woman, who does it by free choice on the other hand, is accepted for this and also does have a lobby now for longer already.
The difference lies in violated or not. And if violated into this, she has a right to sue the violator, as simple as that.
Its really a shame for some in Japan, that such things cannot be seen for what they are, and how easily women get degraded there by some. That tells me a lot about you and your kind.
I happened to be I other circles in Japan, and am in other circles here. And thus I only "give" it to those, who obviously violate human rights, be it by thoughts (I fear, such cynic people do not just leave it by being a thought, but in general act accordingly, very bothersome and no good reference for Japan in general, such people ad a lot to the dark views about Japan in the world, which I do not wish to happen, by the way).
Of course, such people live everywhere, also here, but they have no chance to say this openly here, they would have their according reaction. For example those, who spread out, that the holocaust did not happen. They are strictly forbidden, to do this now. If it is found out, that they go on however, they will be sued, by Germans!
Japan seems to be far from this, as I can see now. Weird indeed.