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Neue Zeit, 13 August 1993, S. 5: Bekenntnis zur Kriegsschuld

Neue Zeit, 13 Aug 1993, p. 5: Admission of war guilt

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Neue Zeit, 13 August 1993, p. 5: report 'Bekenntnis zur Kriegsschuld' on Japan's new coalition seeking to apologise to neighbouring states. It recalls that up to 200,000 women from Korea, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines were forced into army brothels (so-called 'comfort women') between 1930 and 1945, and that the previous LDP cabinet had rejected compensation claims. Indonesia appears only in the list; the OCR of the article is fragmentary.

Neue Zeit, 13 Agustus 1993, hlm. 5: laporan 'Bekenntnis zur Kriegsschuld' tentang koalisi baru Jepang yang hendak meminta maaf kepada negara tetangga. Disebutkan hingga 200.000 perempuan dari Korea, Tiongkok, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, dan Filipina dipaksa masuk rumah bordil militer ('jugun ianfu') pada 1930–1945, dan kabinet LDP sebelumnya menolak tuntutan ganti rugi. Indonesia hanya muncul dalam daftar; OCR artikel terpotong-potong.

“Nach Schätzungen waren davon bis zu 200 000 Frauen aus Korea, China, Taiwan, Indonesien, Malaysia und den Philippinen betroffen.”

People

Morihiro Hosokawa

Organisations

Liberal Democratic Party of GermanyJapanese coalition government (1993)

Places

JapanKoreaChinaTaiwanIndonesiaMalaysiaPhilippines

Tags

japanese occupationsexual violenceimpunitynews brief

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Date
1993-08-13
Creator
Neue Zeit
Publication
Neue Zeit
Document type
newspaper article (newspaper page (full page PDF; relevant article identified in summary))
Language
German
Perspective
Socialist-bloc/solidarity press
Source role
primary
Country
East Germany
Period
1980–1998
Source archive
ZEFYS DDR-Presse (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) · source link
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ZEFYS DDR-Presse (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin), free login required; copyrighted GDR newspaper; personal research copy Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
Citation (APA)
Bekenntnis zur Kriegsschuld. (1993, August 13). Neue Zeit, p. 5. Retrieved from ZEFYS DDR-Presse, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.
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01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/East German press (1948-1993) - Neues Deutschland, Berliner Zeitung and Neue Zeit on Gerwani and Indonesian women (ZEFYS DDR-Presse)/Neue Zeit (1993-08-13) - p. 5, Bekenntnis zur Kriegsschuld [ZEFYS DDR-Presse].pdf
OCR / text
Fair (Tesseract OCR (deu), Oct 2026) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: yes
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › East German press (1948-1993) - Neues Deutschland, Berliner Zeitung and Neue Zeit on Gerwani and Indonesian women (ZEFYS DDR-Presse)
Summary basis
full page OCR read; relevant article transcribed and translated

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