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QUESTION: Hi, my name is Takashi from Japanese newspaper Asahi.
Osaka City Mayor Hashimoto recently made a comment on the so-called “comfort women” issue,
arguing that even though it is unacceptable from the moral perspective value,
but the comfort women were necessary during the war period. And he also argued that it is not fair that only Japan is criticized by the United States and other countries,
because there are other country military that were provided sexual service by prostitute. And do U.S. has any position on his comment or criticism against the United States?
MS. PSAKI: We have seen,
of course,
those comments. Mayor Hashimoto’s comments were outrageous and offensive.
As the United States has stated previously,
what happened in that era to these women who were trafficked for sexual purposes is deplorable and clearly a grave human rights violation of enormous proportions. We extend,
again,
our sincere and deep sympathy to the victims,
and we hope that Japan will continue to work with its neighbors to address this and other issues arising from the past and cultivate relationships that allow them to move forward.
QUESTION: Do you describe this issue sex slave or comfort women?
MS. PSAKI: Again,
I don’t know that I’m going to define it. You kind of laid out the specific details there,
and we have described this issue in the past as comfort women[ii].
Go ahead in the back.