You may have heard that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will become the first Japanese leader to address Congress next week.
You may also have heard that Abe faces considerable pressure to admit to various “atrocities” that his country committed in World War II — and that recent actions like his gift to a “contentious” shrine (via The New York Times) honoring Japan’s war dead indicate the potential for trouble as Abe continues to minimize events like the “enslavement of thousands of women forced to work as sex slaves or “comfort women” in wartime brothels” (again via The New York Times).
As The Wall Street Journal reported today, South Korea — which has long demanded concessions on these topics from Mr.
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