453-word version:
In October 2007, the House of Representatives in the United States unanimously approved the measure calling for apology from Japan to surviving victims, especially those known as “comfort women,” of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Pacific War, but in the summer of 2007, I was already ahead of them...

379-word version:
In October 2007, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously approved the measure calling for apology from Japan to surviving victims of the Pacific War, but in the summer of 2007, I was already ahead of them...