article_snippet.sent: In our age, our must realize the kind of world where finally women are free from human rights abuses.
article_snippet.sent: This cavalier "sh*t happens" attitude towards the comfort women system
article_snippet.sent: In the only textbook that does mention them, the government insisted on the removal of a former comfort woman's testimony and insertion of a disclaimer regarding what it regards as a lack of evidence.
article_snippet.sent: To counter criticism, Abe now refers to Japan's comfort women system in terms of human trafficking, a linguistic ploy to obscure state responsibility for operating this system and make this system appear Abe gets 21st century concerns.
article_snippet.sent: Human trafficking, however, highlights the role of private brokers in coercively recruiting these women in line with revisionist attempts to shift responsibility from the Japanese military and government authorities of the day.
article_snippet.sent: Revisionists prefer to blame the Korean brokers, but the Korean brokers were acting at the behest of Japanese officials who surely knew of the abuses and ensured that the comfort women could not escape the comfort women hell.