Toru Hashimoto is mayor of Osaka and co-founder of the Japanese Restoration Party. He’s previously called for Japan to be run as a dictatorship; now he’s made public comments defending the WWII Japanese military policy of enslaving women and giving them to soldiers to rape. He says that it was a necessary expedient to support hard-working soldiers.
He said last year that Japan needed “a dictatorship”.
In his latest controversial comments, quoted by Japanese media, he said: “In the circumstances in which bullets are flying like rain and wind, the soldiers are running around at the risk of losing their lives,”
“If you want them to have a rest in such a situation, a comfort women system is necessary. Anyone can understand that.”
He also claimed that Japan was not the only country to use the system, though it was responsible for its actions.
Japan WWII ‘comfort women’ were ‘necessary’ – Hashimoto
(Thanks, Jack!)
