History is written by the victors

The Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, now claims that there were no women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army. One of his early statements as Prime Minister acknowledged what most historians, including some Japanese historians, acknowledge as fact. Fourteen years ago the Japanese government, itself, acknowledged that women had been forced into brothels used by the military. Some say as many as 200,000 women lived in these brothels.

Abe's grandfather was a powerful person in wartime Japan. I wonder if Abe is trying to protect his grandfather's reputation as well as appeal to his own conservative base.