THE SHAME OF HWANG V. JAPAN: HOW THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HAS FAILED ASIA'S "COMFORT WOMEN"

From: Texas Journal of Women and the Law | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Ahmed, Afreen R | Copyright information

I. Introduction

In 1897, the Japanese intellectual Uchimura Kanzo1 wrote in an essay entitled "National Repentance":

Repentance is humble acknowledgement of the supremacy of the Eternal Law of Justice, from which no man or nation-not even Japan-can be exempt.... Nothing can buy off the just penalties of sins by whomsoever committed, but contrite and broken hearts. No glories of war can cover up the innocent blood that is shed in connection therewith. The sooner we own our evils ...

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