When Yohei Kono made a landmark 1993 apology to 'comfort women', many ...
TOKYO - When Yohei Kono made a landmark 1993 apology to “comfort women”, many of them Koreans, forced to work in wartime military brothels, Japan’s then chief cabinet secretary spoke for a moderate conservative mainstream seeking to reconcile with Asian neighbors.
“There has been a generational shift,” said Andrew Horvat, a visiting professor at Josai International University. Relations soured last October after South Korea’s Supreme Court ordered Japanese firms to compensate Korean wartime workers, a move strongly condemned by Tokyo. “The biggest problem is a matter of trust, and whether promises made between nations are kept,” Abe said this week.Two years later, then-premier Tomiichi Murayama, a socialist who led a coalition with the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, made a “heartfelt apology” for suffering caused by Japan’s “colonial rule and aggression”.
Electoral system changes and three years in opposition helped ultra-conservative lawmakers and lobby groups strengthen their clout in the LDP.
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