>>455 日本語訳は自分でやってください。
Ms.Katty: The U.S. Congress has moved a step closer to demanding
that Japan apologize for the mass corruption of foreign sex slaves
in the second world war.
The Congress' foreign affairs committee voted overwhelmingly
in favor of the apology demand which now goes to the full House representatives.
It is thought over 200,000 women and girls from countries such as Korea, China, Indonesia, and Taiwan were forced to work as sex slaves
in the Japanese army brothels before and during the war. In 1993,
a Japanese government official did apologize for the comfort women.
Isn't that enough? A question I put earlier to
the congressman Michael Honda who proposed the resolution.
Michael Honda : The deputy cabinet secretary Kono is
I guess equivalent to a chief of staff to a political official.
He,ah, worked with a group of folks who had studied the issue
for two years
and then came out with that statement, and he did say
but the government did not take up the issue as an official act.
The prime minister may have aligned himself of those comments
and said that I apologize and I feel the grief or I feel the pain,
but took no official action
as a government.