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Japan: Interview with Sankei Shimbun Editor about Comfort Women Issue

Sunday, April 29th, 2007 @ 08:34 UTC

by Chris Salzberg

Countries:: Japan
Topics:: History, Media, War & Conflict, International Relations

Trans Pacific Radio reports on an interview with Sankei Shimbun Editor Yoshihisa Komori, conducted in late-March for the PBS series Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria, on the “Comfort Women” issue. TPR notes that “three things struck me [about Komori]: He looks off camera quite a bit, he brings up every red herring and irrelevant side issue he can think of, and he’s well fixated on playing the ‘victim’ game. I don’t think he was a wise choice at all for Japan to have speaking on its behalf.”

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