Methodists decry Japanese stance on 'comfort women' A WWII-era denial
Asian American United Methodists, including those with Japanese ancestry, are strongly criticizing recent denials by the prime minister of Japan regarding that country’s coercion of “comfort women” during World War II, according to United Methodist News Service.
“Your denial places you in the category of those who deny the Holocaust against six million Jews,” wrote Bishop Roy Sano, executive secretary of the United Methodist Council of Bishops, in a letter to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.