Congress: 110th

Sponsor: Representative Honda, Michael M. (01/31/2007)

Committees: House - Foreign Affairs

Description: A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of Japan should formally acknowledge, apologize, and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner for its Imperial Armed Forces' coercion of young women into sexual slavery, known to the world as "comfort women", during its colonial and wartime occupation of Asia and the Pacific Islands from the 1930s through the duration of World War II.

Lastest Action: 07/30/2007 The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.  (All Actions)

Official: H.Res.121 -- 110th Congress