In 2007, Japanese historian Hirofumi Hayashi uncovered official documents confirming that the Japanese government was directly involved in forcing women across Asia into sexual slavery. But political pressures have now nearly eclipsed the strides that he and a handful of others have made in setting the public record straight in Japan.

Yasuji Kaneko, pictured above, was a soldier in the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. While stationed in China, he went to comfort stations. In a somewhat testy conversation with The State We're In's host Jonathan Groubert, he explains why he’s gone public with what he did, even though he still doesn’t think he committed rape.

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