“Summer Side of Life” is one of Gordon Lightfoot’s best songs.

The scandal of the “comfort women” – girls from Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan and other Asian nations (and a few Dutch internees as well) kidnapped to serve as sex slaves to the Japanese military during World War II – is one of the great human rights scandals of the 20th Century.

Somehow, it would never have occurred to me to combine the two.

And, I must say, it still does not.