Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Comfort Women
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talked about "comfort women" at a joint White House press conference with President Obama this week. He's been under pressure to apologize for the treatment of so-called "comfort women," tens of thousands of young women who were used as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talked about "comfort women" at a joint White House press conference with President Obama this week. He's been under pressure to apologize for the treatment of so-called "comfort women," tens of thousands of young women who were used as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II. Abe will be here in Los Angeles tomorrow, meeting with Mayor Garcetti, and Korean-American activists are expected to protest.
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Jolie Myers
Managing Producer, 'Press Play'
Matt Holzman
Producer, 'The Document'
Anna Scott
Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter
Mike Honda
House of Representatives (D-CA)
Phyllis Kim
Korean American Forum of California
Shihoko Goto
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars