Ugly crime will not be buried

Six days after it was released in domestic theaters, Twenty Two, a Chinese documentary film named after the number of "comfort women" in China still alive at the time of its filming in 2014, has harvested box office returns of more than 100 million yuan ($14.9 million).

The documentary tells of the suffering the women experienced during World War II. It is estimated that 200,000 Chinese women were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese during their occupation of China.

In contrast, according to a Mainichi Shimbun report, when a Japanese middle school in Kobe used a history text book that included facts about "comfort women", the school authorities received numerous letters of intimidation and threats from Japanese right-wing forces, claiming that the school had been brainwashed by "certain countries".