That's a mayor. It's incredibly easy to find small time politicians in America or any country saying horrible things on a daily basis. That doesn't reflect the

That's a mayor. It's incredibly easy to find small time politicians in America or any country saying horrible things on a daily basis. That doesn't reflect the status of the country as a whole. The average Japanese person does not deny the events happened. The whole comfort women thing is mainly brought up every few years to draw attention away from local issues. Japan paid and apologized to Korea (several times), the problem went away, Korea's president was found to have been corrupt, and suddenly statues bringing up WW2 war crimes pop up all around the world to paint Japan as an enemy. It's a pattern that pops up whenever instability happens in China and Korea all too conveniently, while stable countries that endured the same problem, like Taiwan, don't have a need to bring up a 70 year old event every 2 years.