True comfort

CBC's Dispatches, a wonderful program giving in-depth essays on current news topics, an almost dead art, has a podcast (they used to have a lame Realaudio download). Their podcast is here. This week's podcast is on Korea's Grandmothers who were sex slaves to Japanese troops during WWII. There is very touching coverage of a young Japanese man and his devotion to these women. He learned about their story while studying with Koreans in Tokyo. Following up on this new knowledge, he went to Korea and began talking to them, breaking down their distrust by learning their local dialect of Korean and in general being a good listener. He now lives with them and is a guide at their residence, greeting visitors to the residence, including uninformed Japanese young people. This is a real tear jerker of a story.