This thesis studies how the Japanese modern ruling parties see their historical responsibilityin the comfort women issue in South Korea. In order to understand the political stance of theruling parties, this paper analyzed political debates in the Japanese parliament in threedifferent periods. The first period is between 1991 and 1993; the second 1994 to 1996; thethird is 2014. Each period has an important event related to the comfort women issue thathappened around either within or around that period. Analysis was conducted based on atheoretical framework on historial national responsibility. This research found out that in thefirst two periods, the political speeches by the ruling parties in the parliament showedintentions to take responsibility in regards to acknowledging facts, apologizing and payingreparations to certain extent. However, in the third period the ruling parties failed to takeresponsibility. Moreover, in all of the periods, the ruling parties failed to ensure preservationof memories as well as implementing history education on the comfort women issue.