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Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso on Sunday called a draft resolution on World War II comfort women before U.S. Congress ¡°extremely regrettable¡± and ¡°not based on objective facts.¡± The resolution, calling for an apology from the Japanese government for drafting thousands of women across Asia into sexual slavery, was submitted to Congress in late January. He made it clear that Tokyo will seek to prevent passage of the resolution, which he said does ¡°not reflect views of the Japanese government.¡± He said Tokyo will try to make Congress understand its position even though the resolution is not legally binding.
Aso made the remarks in a session of the Diet¡¯s Budget Committee when Tomomi Inada, a lawmaker in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, asked about the Japanese government¡¯s position on the resolution.
However, that jars with a statement from Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki, who said the government ¡°respects¡± a statement issued by then chief cabinet secretary Yohei Kono in 1993 officially admitting that the Japanese military took part in the conscription of comfort women.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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