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Eni Faleomavaega: “Mr. Speaker, H. Res. 121 seeks to express the sense of the U.S. House of Representatives that the Government of Japan…”

On the recordJuly 30, 2007
Mr. Speaker, H. Res. 121 seeks to express the sense of the U.S. House of Representatives that the Government of Japan should formally acknowledge, apologize and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner for its Imperial Armed Forces coercion of teenage girls and young women into a sexual slavery, euphemistically known as "comfort women," system during its colonial and wartime occupation of Asia and the Pacific islands from the late 1930s throughout the duration of World War II.
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Eni Faleomavaega
American Samoa
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Discussing H. Res. 121 regarding Japan's historical responsibility for wartime sexual slavery.

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