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Observer: No comfort for 'comfort women'

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From: Filipino Express, The
Date: 19981122
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Filipino Express, The
11-22-1998
OBSERVER: No comfort for `comfort women'

To paraphrase the satirist Anatole France, "the law is the means by which established lawlessness is sanctioned." And the law, or the absence of one, is the shield behind which Japan hides in denying the so-called Filipino comfort women compensation for their horrifying ordeal as sex slaves during World War II.

It's uncanny how wily men and nations find ways to justify their actions or, in the case of Japan, inaction. A Japanese court ruled recently that there is no existing law that would allow Japan to pay restitution ...

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