Filipino women seek Japan's apology for WWII rapes

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Thanks for posting this, Bootie.

These women have been trying to claim damages for about 20 years now and have yet to see justice. Sad to say, quite a few of them have actually passed away already.

Tokyo has generally refused to pay damages to individuals for the war, saying the issue was settled between governments in postwar treaties.

True. However, the real victims of the war never even got a taste of this. It was mostly pocketed by the corrupt postwar government which was made up of either 1. former Japanese collaborators or 2. Commonwealth officials who conveniently fled to other countries during the war.

It's worth noting that Manuel Roxas, the first post-war president installed by the US, was actually a tax collector for the Japanese during the war...... shows you the duplicity of our local ruling elite!