Author: Graham Webster

  • More on Abe's 'Comfort Women' Denial

    Japan Probe has a good entry that digs up the transcript for the October statement I referred to twice previously. Abe was responding to questions from Shii Kazuo, the chair of the executive committee of the Japanese Communist Party, and insisted that his cabinet would follow the Kono Statement. Abe said his previous questioning of…

  • Abe Rescinds Support for 1993 Comfort Women Statement

    In the politics of 20th century East Asian history, the Japanese wartime practice of using women as sex slaves under the putrid euphemism “comfort women” is comparable only to the Nanjing Massacre and the Yasukuni Shrine in its prominence. In 1993, Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, Kono Yohei, acknowledged that “comfort stations” had existed and that…

  • links for 2007-02-28

    LDP policy chief: Japan faces becoming ‘Chinese province’ Nakagawa Shoichi “If something goes awry in Taiwan in the next 15 years, then within 20 years Japan might become just another one of China’s provinces.” … “If Taiwan comes under (China’s) complete rule, Japan could be next.” (tags: nakagawashoichi ldp) Abe shrugs off aide’s China warning…

  • links for 2007-02-27

    Abe, Cheney reaffirm unity on abduction issue, Iraq Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney agreed Wednesday to boost the bilateral alliance and cooperate to resolve the issue of North Korea’s past abductions of Japanese citizens as a common matter of the two nations. (tags: abeshinzo dickcheney) China People Misread The…

  • links for 2007-02-01

    China ‘exploiting Kyoto loophole’ – Fiona Harvey “The practice is perfectly legal but effectively allows the factories and the companies through which they trade carbon credits to make big profits. The eventual buyers of the credits are governments in developed countries…” (tags: china environment) Cleaning up China: Opportunities Beckon for U.S. Businesses From my colleagues…