WW2

The Discomfort of the Economist

The Economist is a good place to get one's weekly dose of political and economical news. It is unabashedly conservative and espouses so-called free markets without being totally irresponsible towards the world, the way so many magazines and newspapers are in the United States.

In the March 10, 2007 edition of the Economist, in the Leaders section, there is a short article titled, "No comfort for Abe", dealing with Mr. Abe's denial of the coercion of Asian women into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War Two. The article rightly castigates Mr. Abe.

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This isn't particularly interesting, until you turn the page and are faced with:

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The Economist not only writes an article about women's servitude, they even publish a visual aid. Should anyone miss the point, the advertisement even has the great title of "Not Business as Usual".

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