Do you feel any apology when you are criticized by a sin which you really didn't do? I will not feel any apology at all! Instead, I will feel anger.
Of course, I mention about the story of comfort women's sex slavery. It's a terrible dishonor based on a fiction!
When talking about comfort women, the story written by a Japanese ex-soldier, Seiji Yoshida, is often referred as the evidence for sex slavery. Before he published the book "My war crimes", Korea did not criticize about comfrot women. Korea's claim is often based on the book. However, surprisingly, we know today that the story is a fiction! Seiji Yoshida admitted it on May 29, 1996.
Why the story is still believed by people? It's because Seiji Yoshida's book was really popular amongst left wings in Japan, who were strongly connected to North Korea and China. Asahi news paper, where lots of left wing reporters belong, published an interview with Seiji Yoshida on 1991, then the book was widely known to people in Japan and Korea. The book was often used as a material for extortion against the Japanese government, left wing news papers blamed the government violently, consensus was twisted. The government was forced lots of compromise with Korea due to the fiction story.
Japan is criticized by a fiction for long time. Can you imagine how much anger Japanese people are feeling? No room for apology.
As a bog standard Japanese, I cannot overlook media attack against Japan from Korea. The reason why I write this blog is because I want to protest against concoctions and fakes made by so many anti-Japan media, which they are mainly Koreans. They publish tailored news as if they are true. I beg you believe only what is really true.
Jan 31, 2013
Nov 5, 2012
What Really Is A Comfort Women?
Whilst South Korean government energetically blames Japan for "comfort women" thing recently, what really is "comfort women"? I guess that many people think it's an appellation for sex slaves abducted by Japanese military from Korea during World War II. Do you think so too? First of all, I insist it's a totally wrong image!
Is a comfort women story a fiction? No, I don't think so. Of course, they actually existed. However, the problem is that they were not like what South Korean government says!
The most significant truth what I want you to know is vast majority of comfort women were Japanese. There were Korean women as well, but they were not majority.
Additionally speaking, Korea as a nation, both South and North, didn't exist at that time. It was a part of Japan. As a consequence, Japanese military force employed lots of Korean men as soldiers. Of course, they were eligible to get service from comfort women. South Korean government should blame not only Japan, but also Korea itself.
During World War II, it was an era of patriotism in Japan. Soldiers fought for the nation and people spared no aid for them. Comfort women are self-sacrificed women to aid soldiers to encourage them. Why they did such thing? Because they thought it benefit the nation.
You know, comfort women's job was totally a risky mission because they had to do their job near battlefields where soldiers were fighting. Of course, their activities are far limited there compared to safe places. Due to such reasons, comfort women were well rewarded, or paid in other words.
Due to the fact that comfort women were well paid, it is true too that lots of women contracted for money, not for patriotism. Lots of those women unwillingly became comfort women who suffered with poverty or debt.
I really recommend you to read this US Army's report If you haven't: Report No. 49: Japanese Prisoners of War Interrogation on Prostitution
In Wikipedia entry, comfort women are explained like below:
Comfort women are girls and women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II
If you have read the report above, you must find this statement isn't accurate. Comfort women were not those women who were captured by Japanese military and forced to do so. They became comfort women with contracts with their intent, regardless of whether they were happy to do or not. The job was well paid. Do you regard such well paid people as slaves? I believe you don't unless you protest against sex for money itself.
Popular but wrong criticism against comfort women is they were abducted by Japanese military, as I stated at the beginning of this entry. The military didn't directly recruit comfort women, but agents did on behalf. Since they were not government people, they didn't have rights to forcibly hold people unlike governmental organization. So, "Japanese military abducted young women for sexual slavery" is a totally wrong image.
Is a comfort women story a fiction? No, I don't think so. Of course, they actually existed. However, the problem is that they were not like what South Korean government says!
The most significant truth what I want you to know is vast majority of comfort women were Japanese. There were Korean women as well, but they were not majority.
Additionally speaking, Korea as a nation, both South and North, didn't exist at that time. It was a part of Japan. As a consequence, Japanese military force employed lots of Korean men as soldiers. Of course, they were eligible to get service from comfort women. South Korean government should blame not only Japan, but also Korea itself.
During World War II, it was an era of patriotism in Japan. Soldiers fought for the nation and people spared no aid for them. Comfort women are self-sacrificed women to aid soldiers to encourage them. Why they did such thing? Because they thought it benefit the nation.
You know, comfort women's job was totally a risky mission because they had to do their job near battlefields where soldiers were fighting. Of course, their activities are far limited there compared to safe places. Due to such reasons, comfort women were well rewarded, or paid in other words.
Due to the fact that comfort women were well paid, it is true too that lots of women contracted for money, not for patriotism. Lots of those women unwillingly became comfort women who suffered with poverty or debt.
I really recommend you to read this US Army's report If you haven't: Report No. 49: Japanese Prisoners of War Interrogation on Prostitution
In Wikipedia entry, comfort women are explained like below:
Comfort women are girls and women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II
If you have read the report above, you must find this statement isn't accurate. Comfort women were not those women who were captured by Japanese military and forced to do so. They became comfort women with contracts with their intent, regardless of whether they were happy to do or not. The job was well paid. Do you regard such well paid people as slaves? I believe you don't unless you protest against sex for money itself.
Popular but wrong criticism against comfort women is they were abducted by Japanese military, as I stated at the beginning of this entry. The military didn't directly recruit comfort women, but agents did on behalf. Since they were not government people, they didn't have rights to forcibly hold people unlike governmental organization. So, "Japanese military abducted young women for sexual slavery" is a totally wrong image.
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