Government "Regrets Deeply Japan's Textbook Deletion of 'Military Comfort Women'"

On the 9th, at the 1369th regular Wednesday demonstration for the resolution of the Japanese military sexual slavery issue held on Peace Road in front of the Embassy of Japan in Jongno-gu, Seoul, the Statue of Peace was wearing winter accessories such as a scarf. The Wednesday demonstrations, which began on January 8, 1992, marked their 27th anniversary this year. Photo by Moon Honam munonam@

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] The government expressed strong regret over Japan's decision to delete or change expressions such as 'military comfort women' and 'forced mobilization' in textbooks.

An official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated on the 10th, "Following the Japanese government's cabinet decision last April to dilute the coerciveness related to the issues of Japanese military comfort women victims and forced labor, it is very regrettable that textbook publishers recently applied for deletions and changes of related expressions, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology approved these revisions."

The official said, "The coerciveness of the mobilization, recruitment, and transfer of Japanese military comfort women is an undeniable historical fact," adding, "The vivid testimonies of the surviving victims are stronger and clearer evidence proving the coerciveness of the mobilization by the Japanese military than any document. Japan itself has acknowledged this, and the international community has already clearly judged this matter."

He continued, "It is also a historical fact that numerous Koreans were mobilized against their will in the 1940s and forced to work under harsh conditions, which Japan itself recognized at the 39th World Heritage Committee in 2015," he emphasized.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is also known to have expressed regret to the Japanese government through diplomatic channels.

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