![The ever-shifting sands of Japanese apologies](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vO8p2Bn0VLxd1UEDwR4TBPpMSUm72e7AH9CmMkR07j-USog8HPmafOTOcFt_ZJJBov313WkMIWEIYegyaZHepQQqA4U5pAdhgrncKUEII367HW-jAzyRpQSxpAt5I5HEjKCHcyFtmbGJiiOnUvDt7Kjy1PYLlZtrvWTAyhiXetGxt9BShusnAlkYE=s0-d)
Since coming to power the Abe administration has told the world that it is continuing to uphold — or (in the Japanese version) to ‘inherit’ (keisho suru) — the 1993 Kono Declaration. In that declaration, issued after an extensive study by the Japanese government, Japan acknowledged that ‘in many cases [‘comfort women’] were recruited against their own will, through coaxing, coercion, etc., and that, at times, administrative/military personnel directly took part in the recruitments’.
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