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Japan’s wartime past weighs on growing military role in Philippines

South China Morning Post · · 176 words · By Raissa Robles
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“Critics oppose the return of Japanese troops over Tokyo’s lack of a formal apology for the wartime abuse of Filipino ‘comfort women’”
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All cited Wikipedia sources are unrelated to the claim about Japanese military return, comfort women, or apology issues. No evidence confirms or contradicts the claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The cinema of the Philippines began with the introduction of the first moving pictures to the country on August 31, 1897, at the Salón de Pertierra in Manila. The following year, local scenes were sho…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_the_Philippines
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The history of the Philippines from 1898 to 1946 is known as the American colonial period, and began with the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April 1898, when the Philippines was still a colon…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Philippines_(18…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — President Manuel L. Quezon admitted roughly 1,200–1,300 Jews fleeing from Nazi Germany, German-occupied Europe, and Shanghai in Japanese-occupied China to the Philippine Commonwealth from 1937 to 1941…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines_and_the_Holocaust
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“In 1993, 18 members of the group filed a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court demanding an official apology and compensation from the Japanese government. It failed.”
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Cited Wikipedia sources refer to 1993 events in Japan (e.g., Formula One race, general elections) but contain no mention of a lawsuit related to comfort women or government apology demands.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 1993 Japanese Grand Prix (formally the XIX Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held at Suzuka on 24 October 1993. It was the fifteenth race of the 1993 Formula One Wo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Japanese_Grand_Prix
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — General elections were held in Japan on 18 July 1993 to elect the 511 members of the House of Representatives. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which had been in power since 1955, lost their majori…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Japanese_general_election
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Events in the year 1993 in Japan. It corresponds to Heisei 5 (平成5年)) in the Japanese calendar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_in_Japan
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“Today, only 19 of the group’s original 200 members are alive.”
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Wikipedia sources discuss comfort women history, Manila demographics, and Metro Manila geography but provide no data about the Lila Pilipina group's membership or survivor numbers.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II. The term comfort women is a tr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Manila, officially the City of Manila, is the capital and second-most populous city of the Philippines after Quezon City. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 1,902,590 people. Located…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Metropolitan Manila (Filipino: Kalakhang Maynila [kalakˌhaŋ maɪˈnilaʔ]), commonly shortened to Metro Manila and formally the National Capital Region (NCR; Filipino: Pambansang Punong Rehiyon), is the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Manila
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