“I am in favour of activities to protect the dignity and human rights of women,” he said. “However, if the purpose is to protect the human rights of women, I would suggest that some of the special attention currently being given to Japan’s ‘comfort women’ issue should be broadened to memorialise all the women who have been sexually assaulted and abused by soldiers of countries in the world.”

Japan has always been quick on the uptake culturally. Check this mayor's response out.

San Francisco: Comfort girls matter.

Osaka Mayor: All women sexually enslaved during wartime matter

I'm impressed with how quickly they picked up that complete bag of whtie nonsense.