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56 puppies rescued in second dog trafficking seizure

One man was arrested but has been released since.

THE DSPCA HAS taken 56 puppies into its care after they were found during a Garda and Customs joint operation yesterday.

The dogs were discovered when a van was stopped and searched at Dublin Port at about 8pm.

A 46-year-old man was arrested at the scene and brought to Store Street Garda Station. He has since been released without charge and investigations are ongoing.

The DSPCA have taken the pups into quarantine and safety. This is the second puppy rescue this week, both of which have been a result of attempted animal trafficking.

Spokesperson Gillian Bird told TheJournal.ie that the van was stopped as it was boarding a UK-bound ferry.

“The pups are in better condition than the animals rescued earlier this week,” she said. “But there are still a number of underlying problems and some of them are still quite young. We estimate the youngest is about six weeks old.”

On Monday, up to 50 young puppies were discovered in two cars at Coolock in Dublin. They will all be looking for homes shortly but will need to stay in the care of the DSPCA for the moment as they are evidence in the case against two men who have been charged in relation to the alleged trafficking.

Donations “to give the puppies a second chance” can be made to the DSPCA here.

Rescued puppies will need homes…potential owners asked to register

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    Mute Brian Daly
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    May 14th 2013, 9:40 AM

    I’m sure there were a lot of things deemed “necessary” at the time. Doesn’t make them right – then or now.

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    Mute Pee Jay Walsh
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    May 14th 2013, 9:56 AM

    Agree. For a nation which ostensably values honour as the most admirable trait. Not much honour in this sanctioned depravity.

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    Mute John Everyman
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    May 14th 2013, 10:17 AM

    We are both off topic now, but it should be pointed out that honour or meiyo (名誉) would not be the what Japan as a nation would regard as its most admirable trait.

    That trait would instead be wa (倭) which means harmony or stasis; the idea that sudden changes are to be avoided for the sake of preserving the peace of the status quo.

    Like all traits which form part of a nation’s identity, wa has often been thrown out the window throughout history. Much like how Britain has long valued the ideal of “fair play”, and yet built the largest Empire in history

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    Mute Carole Carolan
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    May 14th 2013, 10:58 AM

    John, How amazing – you manage to compare the Brits with the Japs … so typically Irish, (which is a presumption about you on my part). Loads of empires have been built and have also fallen for that matter. The Irish built and build their empires using different techniques. For example, the colonising of America, Australia and New Zealand by Irish immigrants (or involuntary immigrants). So many Irish left Ireland for all the reasons there were, good and bad and took over the native lands of indigenous people and have prospered and done very well for themselves at the expense of the indigenous people of those lands. In most cases the leg work was already done for them by the Colonising British, thus the lack of conscience? Loads of brave Irish men joined the British Colonising armies too. What trait did the Irish throw out the window I wonder?

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    Mute Little Jim
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    May 14th 2013, 11:03 AM

    What are you on about Carole.
    The Irish were a relatively small cog in the British military machine.
    Then and now.

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    Mute Francie Coffey
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    May 14th 2013, 12:19 PM

    ‘Japanese decency and honour’ – the smallest book in the world.

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    May 14th 2013, 12:37 PM

    Your an idiot caroline, irish people have earned the success we have today through hard work. We never commited any of the genocides that went on during the british empire we were the victims of it.

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    May 14th 2013, 12:44 PM

    During periods of the nineteenth century Irishmen accounted for up to 50% of the British army. I would not count that as a small cog.

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    Mute Pauric O Laighin
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    May 14th 2013, 12:58 PM

    Carole, you can be banned from these pages if you make remarks that are not anti-British.

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    May 14th 2013, 12:58 PM

    Where did you get that figure from?

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    Mute Carole Carolan
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    May 14th 2013, 1:16 PM

    Name calling? How very mature. Did I ruffle your batman cloak?

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    Mute Carole Carolan
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    May 14th 2013, 1:19 PM

    Pauric, I would be delighted to be banned then. I am constantly amazed at the frenzied hatred of the British by a group of people – perhaps an occupation by the Japs or the Nazis would have shown the difference.

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    May 14th 2013, 1:23 PM

    Excellent point Carole.

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    Mute ross o carroll kelly
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    May 14th 2013, 1:26 PM

    Get off ur perch ya sell righteous wagon

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    May 14th 2013, 1:49 PM

    Carole, the difference? Lets not forget the British contributed hugely to the effect of the Famine in Ireland when they occupied Ireland.

    It was a simple comparison that was made no need to get touchy! He made reference to a valued trait of the Japanese (which most Irish people would not be overly familiar with) and compared it to a trait in a neighboring country (which most people are familiar with and therefore can better understand his point!)

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    May 14th 2013, 1:57 PM

    Magdalene laundries ? Peodophile priests ?

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    Mute Lee Cahill
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    May 14th 2013, 2:00 PM

    Stop calling them “Japs”. It might help validate your point Carole.

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    May 14th 2013, 3:18 PM

    Bloody japs, coming over here…

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    Mute Carole Carolan
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    May 14th 2013, 3:40 PM

    Mr Kelly, I am off my perch and visiting your head!

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    May 14th 2013, 3:46 PM

    It’s o Carroll Kelly or sir to u

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    Mute Carole Carolan
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    May 14th 2013, 4:07 PM

    Oh, so you want to be knighted by the Queen of England? That would be the only way anybody would call you sir to u!

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    Mute Carole Carolan
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    May 14th 2013, 4:09 PM

    Jap is an abbreviation, not a disrespect – just like Brits for example.

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    May 14th 2013, 5:07 PM

    Sure paddy, sure.

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    Mute Kitty Prendergast
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    May 14th 2013, 9:34 AM

    Sanctioned rape. I am appalled and disgusted that in these times it can be described as ‘necessary’.

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    May 14th 2013, 12:51 PM

    I just looked up Unit 731. I haven’t stopped weeping.

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    May 14th 2013, 6:05 PM

    The only thing the Japenese believe they did wrong was losing the war! The want all the victimhood in relation to Hiroshima and Nagasaki but cannot or will not admit to their myriad atrocities.

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    May 14th 2013, 9:43 AM

    I’m speechless, and that says a lot. It’s horrific enough that these atrocities happen, but for some misguided fool to say its necessary , is just appalling.

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    May 14th 2013, 9:43 AM

    What’s worrying is that in Japan as well as in Europe, extreme right wing, pro nationalist parties are growing at an alarming rate. Add in the economic crises, food shortages and the displacement of huge populations due to climate change an it’s a recipe for disaster.

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    May 14th 2013, 10:22 AM

    The supposed rapid growth of right-wing parties in Europe is a staple fear, often stoked by the media. Is it true though?
    In Ireland, I see no evidence at all. The main beneficiaries, and with a limited mandate only, are SF, who espouse hard left policies, albeit with a past replete with significant fascistic tendencies.
    In the UK, the UKIP are certainly righter than the Tories, but far right they are not and in any case, it remains to be seen how well they will do in national elections.
    In France, the beneficiaries of the downturn have been the Socialists.
    In Italy, it’s been a comedian.
    In Greece, Golden Dawn made some gains but nowhere near a majority.
    Show me please some hard evidence of an alarming growth in the hard right?

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    Mute guardian
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    May 14th 2013, 10:35 AM

    The harf right has grown. But yeah agree its not so muvh of a danger once kept in check. But it has alarmingly grown in America.

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    May 14th 2013, 10:47 AM

    I’m not saying the far right are in power or are likely to be anytime soon, but there is a trend, no doubt about it. The ordinary people of Europe feel alienated in the current crises where a cabal of unelected officials are calling all the shots. Europe could still fragment. Also, in Hungary there has been a worrying increase in anti-semitism. I don’t want to over alarmist but there a lot of danger signs out there and one thing we do know about history is that it repeats itself

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    May 14th 2013, 10:48 AM

    @Sham – Sinn Fein may be a left-wing party but many aspects to them are very right-wing oriented. Ex: Ultra-Nationalism and promoting the Irish people are victims mentality constantly. They are clearly also populist on certain issues. Pro-life and pro-gay marriage?

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    May 14th 2013, 11:13 AM

    Yes I’ll grant you that the Shinners are an odious mix of fascism, communism, terrorism and populism. I guess that in the proud tradition of catch-all FF, they’re trying to appeal to all strands of the disaffected. There is no doubt that were the shinners to see electoral gain in outright thuggish violent fascistic behaviour they would have no hesitation whatsoever in engaging in such behaviour and there are large elements in the party who would relish it and are practised at it.
    Yet I still am not convinced that there is a broad rise in hard right support in Europe, much beyond the permanent cranks. Those who fail to,understand history are indeed bound to repeat it, but the conditions of the Great Depression that precipitated Nazism are not being repeated in Europe. The level of hardship is not of the same scale, thanks to the comprehensive welfare systems of most European countries.

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    May 14th 2013, 11:37 AM

    It’s risen in Germany and Greece. If we are excluding Eastern Europe (which is already ultra right-wing to begin with) then I agree it has really hasn’t had much of a take off overall in Europe. Scandinavia, Britain, and Ireland would be least affected.

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    May 14th 2013, 2:00 PM

    Completely ignore the Extreme left wing.
    The Soviets raped upwards of 2 million German woman during World War Two.

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    Dec 24th 2013, 11:57 AM

    If you read outside of the Irish media, you’ll find a lot of far right gains in Europe. You hear a lot about Putin cracking down on democracy but ever hear of Victor Orban, the far right Hungarian president? There’s been a huge crackdown on free speech in Hungary and a rise in anti-Semitism with little resistance. Germany has the AfD (Alternative fuer Deutschland), a neo-Nazi market liberal party which promotes conspiracy theories and sucks in every right wing crybaby who can’t stand democracy. Declan Ganley and the whole Anti Abortion brigade would fit in there quite nicely.
    France has Marine LePen and Britain the UKIP, both of whom play the right wing, anti-foreigner card but want to dismantle the welfare system and turn everyone into slaves. Ukraine is another anti-Semetic powder keg the Americans and the EU want to annex at all costs. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have yearly neo-Nazi parades and treat their ethnic Russians as second class citizens. All with little resistance from the EU.
    As for economics and welfare systems, welfare systems in all countries are being killed by a thousand cuts. It’s not just Ireland that’s suffering. The last thing the powers that be need is an educated workforce. They need obedient slaves and far right parties are just the thing to make that happen.

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    May 14th 2013, 10:14 AM

    People seem to have forgotten how bad the Japanese acted during the war,the ran hardcore pow camps much worse than the nazis.

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    May 14th 2013, 10:49 AM

    I mean they were the allies of the Nazis. Shouldn’t be a surprise.

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    May 14th 2013, 11:06 AM

    100% correct Michael. Iris Chang’s ”The Rape of Nanking” is by far the most horrific and confronting book i’ve ever read. It documents that absolute barbarity of the Japanese during WW2. One only needs google ”Unit 731” to get an insight into how evil they were.

    This gentleman’s comments are utterly shameful and abhorrent, he should be forced to resign

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    May 14th 2013, 10:28 PM

    TBH Hitler actually despised them as a race as well and referred to them as die kleine gelbe Affen.
    {the little yellow monkeys] in private conversations.

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    May 14th 2013, 9:44 AM

    What would from a nation that are at the forefront of removing beautiful whales from the planet

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    May 14th 2013, 9:49 AM

    You shouldn’t use the comment of one nasty Right-winger as an opportunity to condemn an entire nation.

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    May 14th 2013, 10:48 AM

    The part about whaling still applies though…

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    May 14th 2013, 10:01 AM

    They were unbelievably vicious and cruel little men.

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    May 14th 2013, 10:04 AM

    Were all of them little?

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    May 14th 2013, 9:45 AM

    I wouldn’t pay much heed to what Hashimoto says; he’s cut from the same tree as Shintaro Ishihara and his party engages in nothing other than Right-wing populism to try to leech supporters from the country’s major parties.

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    May 14th 2013, 10:28 AM

    Having spent 2 years living and working in rural hiroshima prefecture I can say that the Japanese like some other post colonizers have sorry and short memories. ..a travelling exhibition I saw about the infamous unit 831 in nanjing was picketed by Japanese nationalists who said it was an insult to the emperor … when I first arrived in hiroshima the was no mention in the atomic bomb museum of the thousands of Korean slaves that died in the bombing…. intense lobbying changed that when the new museum reopened. …. despite this I found the Japanese to be one of the most decent, hospitable and welcoming people I’ve come across so I think while most people there are good its dangerous revisionists like this new mayor of Osaka that are to be watched carefully

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    May 14th 2013, 10:37 AM

    To be fair there is a memorial to the Korean victims in the Hiroshima Peace Park:

    http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/virtual/VirtualMuseum_e/tour_e/ireihi/tour_11_e.html

    Like yourself, during my own time in Japan I found the vast majority of people to be wonderful. You get Right-wing dicks in every nation its just that in Japan this minority is annoyingly vocal.

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    May 14th 2013, 10:52 AM

    John. . Yes there is now but when I first arrived there there was no mention of the Korean victims of the bombing. ……I also was taken to see a dam North of hiroshima where it’s reckoned that many Korean slave builders were buried alive after falling into the concrete from exhaustion. ..nasty stuff but a Japanese College and keen history buff was my “sensai” when I was there

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    May 14th 2013, 10:53 AM

    John…. sorry colleague

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    Mute John Everyman
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    May 14th 2013, 11:03 AM

    Marc the exploitation of Korean forced labour has never been denied in Japan, indeed it was the work of Japanese historians such as Saburo Ienaga which brought knowledge of the crime to prominence in the Western world.

    The crimes of Imperial Japan rank high on the list of mankind’s most horrific acts; no one is denying that other than Rightists such as Hashimoto and Ishihara and certain elements within the LDP. While Japan’s expression of wartime guilt has not been the same as Germany’s, historians such as John Dower and Henry Frei have argued that there is no way it could be.

    Dower for example pointed out that while in Germany guilt involved the outward acknowledgement of victimisation, in Japan the atom bombs, the American Occupation’s policy towards “Red China” and that fact that Imperial Japan’s atrocities happened for the most part outside of the homeland have created a sense of “Internal Victimisation”; a universal condemnation of conflict which in the minds of most postwar Japanese is manifested primarily in the suffering Japan itself underwent.

    This makes sense in many ways. The Japanese public had no equivalent of the Nazi death camps in their own backyard as the Germans had. When everyday life was in itself a struggle to survive, the average Japanese on the street had little time to spend lamenting over the atrocities the Imperial Army had inflicted upon Japan’s fellow Asians hundreds of miles away. I’m not saying they were not understood, just that feeding yourself and your family was more important to most. There was never any official attempt to ignore these savage acts, but they were simply less tangible in the mind of ordinary Japanese than the piles of corpses in Dachau had been to ordinary Germans.

    It is far too simplistic to say that the Japanese have not acknowledged their past. Most ordinary Japanese I know, are very aware of their country’s past aggressions and would love to see their country take whatever steps would be necessary to help heal relations with China and the Koreas.

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    May 14th 2013, 10:09 AM

    Historical revisionism at its worst.

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    May 14th 2013, 9:47 AM

    Ugh. State of him.

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    May 14th 2013, 11:15 AM

    There were over 200,000 German rape’s carried out by the victors in ww2 not much talk about

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    May 14th 2013, 10:28 AM

    Sometimes living in Japan gets me down…..But he doesn’t represent anything like a majority on this issue.

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    May 14th 2013, 2:06 PM

    Rape has no nationality or political creed.
    Japanese, Germans during World War Two on the Far Right
    Soviets on the Far left
    Our wonderful little country as laid out in the Murphy report.

    ‘They raped every German female from eight to 80′
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/may/01/news.features11

    of which the wife of Hermut Kohl, Hannelore Kohl, twelve at the time, was one of them

    The justifications of this act of barbarity are never ending.
    The only end that we should be talking about are the gallows for perpetrators.

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    May 14th 2013, 9:47 AM
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    May 14th 2013, 11:22 AM

    There is a superb Japanese film called Shunpu Den (Story of a Prostitute), made in 1965, which deals explicitly with this subject.

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    May 14th 2013, 10:28 AM

    Ah jaysus lads calm down.

    This would be the same as Asian media reporting comments of ming or Wallace as speaking for irish people. He is only a minority representative lol calm down.

    Mimd you as outsiders looking in they would have right laugh at us. Building developer tax fraud goes bust, robs money which he claimed was paid to workers pensions but never was. Then gets elected by the very people he screwed :) ah lads we are ones to talk.

    They could alsp make light that while japan had war criminals we have let mr Adams and mr ferris into our dail. Trails of blood.

    So leave Japan alone he is minority and they gave us sushi :)

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    May 14th 2013, 11:04 AM

    The Japs also werent slow to use horrible and inhuman torture method on prisoners unfortunate to get captured,but then again in wartime normal human behavour is supended and methods that would be considered inhuman in a civilised society are used until their percieved goal is achieved,the mantra that all is fair in love and war is a truism.

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    May 14th 2013, 10:34 PM

    Scratch the surface and the attitudes that underpinned the atrocious behaviour of the Imperial Japanese army of World War II still appear to be there. Japan has never properly faced up to what was done in its name – it takes a particularly blinkered view when it comes to how it teaches its children about this shameful period in its history.

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    May 15th 2013, 12:36 AM

    Hashimoto is warning US if they want to use this, so called “comfort women” issue, for accusing Japan, Japan can do the same referencing Recreation and Amusement Association that GHQ ordered Japanese government to set up after surrender in 1945. Sex slaves were “Necessary” for US army as well.

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