[GeronL]

coming from a country where kiddie porn possession is still legal

/shock

[txrefugee]

Just ask the survivors of the Bataan Death March about Japanese morals. They have none.

[seeker41]

Never wanted to visit, despise their perversion.

[yarddog]

They can be strange people.

Hard to believe anyone in a prominent position could say something so stupid and outrageous.

[areukiddingme1]

November 1995 — The U.S. Navy admiral who announced plans to retire after touching off outrage with his off-the-cuff remark about the rape of a Japanese schoolgirl spoke out again Sunday, but this time Richard Macke was apologetic.

“My comments were insensitive and offensive,” he said.

In his original comments to reporters last Friday, Macke, U.S. commander of Pacific forces, had suggested the three U.S. servicemen accused of the crime and now on trial in Okinawa should have paid for a prostitute instead of raping the 12-year-old girl.

After saying military officials had found nothing in the background of the three accused servicemen to suggest they would commit such a crime, he said, “I think it was absolutely stupid. I have said several times: for the price they paid to rent the car (used in the crime), they could have had a girl”.

After the angry reaction he issued an apologetic statement, but the outrage did not die and the four-star admiral with 35 years in the military announced his retirement the same day.

[SampleMan]

I’m sure this will be of interest to the Chinese, who now have a severe shortage of women, and look upon the Japanese as their historical antagonist.

[0.E.O]

These would be the same ‘disciplined’ soldiers who murdered prisoners by the boatload, and raped and slaughtered civilians on their their way across China and southeast Asia?

[trubolotta]

Is the mayor Muslim?

[Gay State Conservative]

Gee,none of the allied armies (US,Britain,Canada,Australia,India,etc) were able to keep discipline without it.Was there something particularly barbaric about Japanese men at the time that set them apart from our men? And as for “discipline”...one can only imagine what an *un* disciplined Japanese army might have been like during the 30’s and 40’s.

[Gay State Conservative]

Ooops...should read “needed it to keep discipline”.

[stuartcr]

and our troops face UCMJ punishment for frequenting prostitutes!!!

[KarlInOhio]

If it was so necessary, why didn't they draft their own women for this important national "service"?

[Quickgun]

Tyrannical Government. How many here think that Zero wouldn’t be just as bad if he had total power? Spoils of war to the victors. Only one of many atrocities committed by the Japanese during WWII.

[twister881]

Was taken to task on this site a short time ago for stating — from experience — that the Japanese, even today, are the most racist society on the planet. And that they never have formally apologized for their 20th Century atrocities. It bubbles just below the surface; this mayor simply allowed the facade to slip momentarily.

[Utah Binger]

What no comfort boys? How discriminatory! /s

[Zakeet]

Reminds me of the 1990 Texas governor's race between Clayton (Claytie) Williams and Ann (Ma) Richards.

Claytie was a proud Texas Aggie who made a ton of money in the oil patch and then donated large sums to his alma mater (the alumni center there is named in his honor). Claytie then decided to run for governor and in the process made statements somewhat similar to those from the Japanese mayor.

Claytie told a crude joke about rape, "If it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it." Then he chuckled about visiting the famous Chicken Ranch brothel in LaGrange and the "Boy's Town" red light district in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico -- explaining that "boys will be boys" and "sometimes, it's necessary for Aggies to get serviced."

Texans were not amused. Claytie went into the race with a two to one lead in the polls and still managed to lose to the old liberal cow by 11 points -- in a heavily conservative Republican state -- despite having outspent his opponent more than two to one (with much of the funds coming out of Claytie's own pocket).

When a crowd of supporters urged Claytie to try again in four years, he told them, "I may be an Aggie, but I am not crazy."

Claytie remains a politically radioactive to this day.

[Savage Beast]

This moron is actually the Mayor of Osaka???

"up to 200,000 women, mainly from the Korean Peninsula and China, were forced to provide sex for Japanese soldiers in military brothels."

A former US serviceman who helped liberate the Philippines told me that the Japanese had prostitutes to service their soldiers. He bore witness. He didn't know that the women had been pressed into this "service" from conquered lands.

"China's Foreign Ministry criticized the mayor's comments and saw them as further evidence of a rightward drift in Japanese politics under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe."

"Rightward drift"??? No. A DOWNWARD drift.

The people of Osaka had better dump this Hashimoto creep.

[bgill]

Here’s the new DADT talking points.

[Cincinatus]

Wartime sex slaves were necessary

So were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So solly.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I'm as terrified of, and hostile to, Red China and North Korea as anyone on this forum, but anyone who isn't bothered by this is blind.

Red China and North Korea are playing with fire. If they rouse the monster they may not be the only ones to be sorry.