There is an old fairground game called Whac-a-Mole. You whack a (fake) mole on the head and drive it down into its hole — and instantly one or more other moles pop up out of other holes. It's an excellent metaphor for humanity's inability to abolish sexual slavery.
Late last month, we had the long-overdue full apology by the Japanese government for the enslavement of up to 200,000 young "comfort women" from countries conquered by Japan to provide sexual "comfort" to Japanese soldiers before and during World War II.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government finally ended decades of haggling over the scale of Japan's crime and the form of words in which it should apologise. It simply said we did it and we're sorry, and here's one billion yen ($8.5 million) to make restitution to South Korea's surviving comfort women.
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