Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement in response to the decision by the California Board of Education to teach 10th-grade students about Comfort Women, who were forced into sexual slavery by Imperial Japan during World War II.
“I am pleased that California will now teach our students about these women’s tragic history. I hope doing so will help ensure such atrocities are never committed again.
“In my time representing Southern California, I have fought to expose the trauma and shame suffered by the Comfort Women. That’s why I was a leading co-sponsor of a resolution, passed by the House, calling for an apology from Japan and why I helped organize a congressional hearing at which several Comfort Women told of their suffering.".
