新華社「美衆院委員会要日本政府為“慰安婦”負責」『東方早報』2006年９月15日
http://eunheui.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2006/09/post_d68e.htmlによると、日本では『朝日』が『人民日報』経由で報じているだけだということらしい；
また、http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20060829/1156870370に関連して、「遊就館」に関する米国下院公聴会についてはhttp://ratio.sakura.ne.jp/archives/2006/09/15182351.phpを参照のこと。
米下院国際関係委、日本の慰安婦関連決議案を可決
2006年09月15日米下院の国際関係委員会は１３日、日本による第２次世界大戦中の従軍慰安婦動員に関する決議案（下院第７５９号決議案）を初めて審議し、これを可決した。「中国新聞網」が報じた。
同決議案は民主党のレイン・エバンズ議員と共和党のクリス・スミス議員が４月に提出したもので、日本政府に対し▽従軍慰安婦動員の事実と責任を認める▽従軍慰安婦問題が人権に反する問題であることを現在および次世代の日本国民に教育する▽慰安婦を否認するいかなる主張に対しても公に強く反論する▽国連やアムネスティ・インターナショナルの慰安婦関連勧告を履行する――ことを求めている。
同決議案は、日本政府の承諾の下で慰安婦に対して行われた暴行、強制堕胎、性暴力、人身売買などの反人類的犯罪は、２０世紀における最大規模の人身売買事件であり、その被害者は２０万人に達するとの歴史学者の見解に言及。また、第２次大戦の戦勝国および関係国との賠償協議において、日本政府はこの方面の戦争犯罪をいまだ完全に公開していないと指摘している。
http://www.asahi.com/international/jinmin/TKY200609150217.html
U.S. Lawmakers Urge Next Japan PM to Avoid Yasukuni (Update1)By Aaron Sheldrick
Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. lawmakers on a congressional committee on foreign relations called for Japan's next leader to stop visiting Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which includes convicted war criminals among the dead it honors.
Two senior members of the House of Representatives International Relations Committee criticized Japanese leaders for the shrine visits and for the treatment of World War II in the shrine's museum and some school textbooks that they say downplays atrocities committed by Japan.
``Paying one's respect to war criminals is morally bankrupt and unworthy of a great nation such as Japan,'' Tom Lantos, the ranking Democrat on the committee, said according to a transcript. ``This practice must end.''
Relations between Japan and its biggest trading partner, China, have slumped to their worst in three decades because of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's annual visits to Yasukuni. Japan's differences with its neighbors make it harder to resolve regional issues like North Korea's nuclear weapons program, the congressional committee's chairman said.
``North Korea, as it reminded all Americans with its Fourth of July missile launches, remains a major source of regional instability, and maintaining the peace in the Taiwan Strait is a constant challenge for us,'' Henry Hyde, a Republican, said. ``All of these sources of tension in the Asia Pacific region require that we and our allies forge a united front. However, sadly, history keeps getting in the way.''
Stepping Down
Koizumi steps down as president of the ruling Liberal Party later this month and is expected to replaced by Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, who is the frontrunner, according to polls.
The president of the LDP automatically becomes prime minister because of its parliamentary majority.
Abe has endorsed Koizumi's visits and indicated he may go should he become prime minister.
Yasukuni has soured relations between Japan and its neighbors for decades despite repeated official apologies for Japan's aggression last century, when its Imperial Army invaded and occupied much of the region until its defeat.
Among the 2.5 million people enshrined at Yasukuni are 14 men convicted of war crimes, including World War II leader Hideki Tojo, who was hanged for crimes against humanity. The shrine's museum, called Yushukan, says Japan's invasion of Asia was to liberate the region from colonial rule and that it was forced into war with the U.S.
``It's troubling to those of my generation to learn that Yushukan Museum in Tokyo is teaching younger generations of Japanese that the Second World War in Asia was launched by Tokyo to free the peoples of Asia and the Pacific from the yoke of Western imperialism,'' Hyde said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=arbbcpF0OhQA