Dear Mr. Ryutaro Hashimoto,

With our best wishes to you and your government.

Historians say about 200,000 Asian women--mostly from China, Korea and the Philippines--were forced to work in military-run brothels for Japanese troops during the war. Japan's government had denied any involvement with the brothels until several years ago.

Japan has refused to provide money directly to what it has termed "comfort women" insisting that all war-related claims were settled by postwar treaties. Instead, it arranged for the establishment of a privately-funded body to extend financial assistance.

Many women have refused to accept payments from the fund. Saying it is part of attempts by Japan to avoid taking full responsibility for its wartime actions. We know that the fund for women has paid out over 100 million Yen over the past two years. In spite of compensation with money, the so-called "comfort women" whether alive or death; they need formal apology from Japan's government.

To understand the crime of WWII is a positive textbook for honest Japanese.

We hope the new generation of Japan would be a lighthouse of Asia.

At the end of the letter; we give our appreciation that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.