Struggling against imperialism, refusing to forget “comfort women”
NOVANEWS
By Curry Malott
A former "comfort woman" from South Korea joins a protest outside of the Japanese Embassy in Washington, D.C., in July 2015, demanding justice for Japan's war crimes during World War II. Photo: Sarah Sloan.
The author represented the ANSWER Coalition on a weeklong speaking tour against U.S.-Japanese imperialism hosted by the Asia-Wide Campaign (AWC-Japan) from June 16-21, 2017. The speaking tour included a rally and a march in Kyoto, and public forums in Kyoto, Fukuyama, Nagoya, and Kobe.
The government of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has a highly unpopular imperialist agenda that has been coupled with an ideological turn to nationalist chauvinism in a feeble attempt to popularize its bigoted, militarizing, capitalist pursuits. For many activists i...