Japan Still Denies ‘Comfort Women’ Atrocities: Why Its Remilitarization Is a Global Threat

Between 1932 and 1945, the Japanese Imperial Army trafficked an estimated 400,000 women and girls into sexual slavery — the largest case of state-sponsored human trafficking in modern history. Most were Korean and Chinese, but victims also came from the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and beyond. To this day, Japan has not offered a formal apology or reparations to the survivors.

Co-founder of Comfort Women Justice Coalition Julie Tang joins Amanda Yee this week to discuss the survivors’ fight for justice. She also warns of the threat a rapidly remilitarizing Japan poses to Asia and the rest of the world, given that it’s never taken full accountability for its WWII atrocities.

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