Crazy Hashimoto

Toru Hashimoto, Osaka's Mayor and co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party, commented that the comfort women were necessary for the soldiers of Japanese military force in WWII.

Hearing Hashimoto's comment, I'm ashamed of it as one of Japanese. He doesn't understand the the essence of the problem at all.


Comments

  1. BrookMay 17, 2013, 11:08:00 AM

    I entirely agree with you.
    As a would-be apprentice of Buddha, I make it a rule not to get angry at anything.
    But this time I’ve got angry furiously, and I’m sure I am right as a Buddhist.
    I believe we should express our anger and unpleasantness in every possible means.
    I vote many “like”s in the face-book for the comments which accuse that mean guy.

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  2. F HiroshiMay 17, 2013, 5:54:00 PM

    Thank you, Brook san.

    Hashimoto speaks too much, but he has no intelligence and not knowledge. He is like Takahumi Horie.

    If he is a politician, he has to think more before speaking.
    He is a wrong person as a politician.

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  3. MarianneMay 19, 2013, 4:29:00 PM

    i dont know so much about it but let me tell u my opinion.

    Having comfort women for those soldiers during those days was probably necessary for them to be able to continue doing their duty... maybe they get motivated by it or it satifies their personal satisfaction.

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    1. F HiroshiMay 20, 2013, 9:22:00 AM

      Thank you for leaving your comment.

      I think that in Japan we have to put the problem of this 'comfort women' in context of the invasion, colonialism, control and controlled and the abduction by the state power. This problem is also including sexism, human rights, poverty and so on.
      It's my opinion.

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