article_snippet.sent: Tokyo maintains Tokyo legal liability for the wrongdoing was cleared by a bilateral claims treaty signed in 1965 between South Korea and Japan.
article_snippet.sent: Critics fear Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe government is trying to whitewash the past, to appease conservatives who feel comfort women were paid prostitutes, not victims of official military policy.
article_snippet.sent: I think Nazi Germany had some of Germany to a smaller degree.
article_snippet.sent: But in the Japanese case Germany was large scale, and state-sponsored, essentially," says Nakano.
article_snippet.sent: Nakano points out that, since Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe first came to office his government has succeeded in removing references to "comfort women" from many Japanese school textbooks.
article_snippet.sent: It's part of what critics call Japan's track record of glossing over Japan war crimes.
article_snippet.sent: And in a way, his government risks a second rape by discrediting his government testimonies and treating (his government experiences) as if his government were lies," Nakano says.
article_snippet.sent: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe does not believe women were coerced to work in the military brothels.
article_snippet.sent: Nakano says Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and conservative lawmakers feel "singled out.
article_snippet.sent: "Abe and conservative lawmakers feel there's some sort of a plot by other Asian countries to sully the Japanese name to Abe and conservative lawmakers advantage.