Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

best2002

(181 posts)
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 03:28 AM Mar 2013

Japanese rock band kills comfort women twice

[link:

|

A group of South Korean women forced into wartime sexual slavery by Japan filed a defamation suit Monday against a little-known, far-right Japanese rock band for calling them prostitutes. An album containing a song with the allegedly defamatory lyrics by the band "Scramble" was mailed to a shelter caring for so-called "comfort women" in Korea last week. The song, with an accompanying video posted on YouTube in January, is titled "Slashing Koreans" and contains inflammatory lyrics, exhorting violence against "the elderly prostitutes."

Historians say about 200,000 women from Korea, China, the Philippines and other countries were drafted to work in Japanese army brothels in Asia. This is inhumane to subject the women, who had already suffered so much in their lives, to such hatred. These are the types of acts that could damage bilateral relations between the neighboring countries.
The Japanese band released the song last week and sent a CD with it to a shelter in Korea for former sex slaves along with a copy of the lyrics translated into Korean.

(
)
(http://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_View.asp?nseq=144547&category=2)
1 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Japanese rock band kills comfort women twice (Original Post) best2002 Mar 2013 OP
I like that the subtitles are translating Japanese to Korean. MrSlayer Mar 2013 #1
 

MrSlayer

(22,143 posts)
1. I like that the subtitles are translating Japanese to Korean.
Wed Mar 6, 2013, 05:21 AM
Mar 2013

So I really couldn't understand what they were talking about but I thought that their having a chick singer was interesting and I didn't really care for the drum sound. Too tinny for my taste.

I don't know, it's rock n roll. I don't have to agree with an artist to appreciate their work but in this case I do neither.

Hell, I write and perform songs that would have me tombstoned in a second if I posted them here. So I understand shock value. Do these people really believe in this shit or are they trying to capitalize on the racist goons? Who knows?

Latest Discussions»Issue Forums»Foreign Affairs»Japanese rock band kills ...