Not-so-comforting response

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200703/200703270032.html

If there's one thing I really hate, it's apologies that actually add insult to injury. Like when my boyfriend says "I'm sorry I didn't do a good job on Valentine's Day because you were really vague about what you wanted and it's a stupid holiday." Gee, thanks.
But after reading the "apology" from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe about the sexual enslavement of "comfort women" during WWII, I feel like this obnoxious tactic has reached new heights-- or perhaps lows is the better word.

“I express my sympathy for the hardships they suffered and offer my apology for the situation they found themselves in.”

The one they found themselves in? Really? On that note, I also offer my apologies to the situation my relatives "found themselves in" during the Holocaust. I think it's pretty upsetting that the Japanese government cannot even fully acknowledge prior wrongdoing, and would rather blame individual women and their families:

“There were military nurses and embedded journalists but no ‘embedded’ comfort women. It is true that there were comfort women. I believe some parents may have sold their daughters. But it does not mean the Japanese Army was involved.”

Fantastic; not only is the government not responsible, but this comment seems to imply that sexual enslavement was imagined, and truly it was these nurses and journalists who just couldn't keep their hands to themselves. Let's just slap a big "she was asking for it" sticker on this one. Because I can only assume the slutty outfits those randy nurses and journalists were wearing.