{"id":12003,"date":"2023-09-27T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T17:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fightforjustice.info\/?p=12003"},"modified":"2023-12-05T08:37:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T23:37:30","slug":"2-9%e3%80%80was-the-recreation-and-amusement-association-under-the-operation-of-the-u-s-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fightforjustice.info\/?p=12003&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"2-9\u3000Was the \u201cRecreation and Amusement Association\u201d Under the Operation of the U.S. Military?"},"content":{"rendered":"\nWith regard to the question \u201cWere the Comfort Stations Established Because of a Demand Made by the Occupation Forces?\u201d in part 0-8 of this Q&A, it is described on Japanese Wikipedia that \u201cCiting examples like that of Recreation and Amusement Association operated by the U.S. military in Japan etc., Ikeda Nobuo argues that national prostitution facilities have been established the world over\u2026\u201d and Ikeda Nobuo\u2019s blog is cited to form the basis of this description.\r\n\uff08The links to Wikipedia:\u00a0<\/span>http:\/\/ja.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E5%90%89%E8%A6%8B%E7%BE%A9%E6%98%8E#cite_note-8<\/a>\u3000and to Ikeda Nobuo\u2019s blog:\r\nhttp:\/\/ikedanobuo.livedoor.biz\/archives\/51860114.html<\/a>\u3000\u00a0Both were accessed on July 30th, 2013.\uff09\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nFirst, with regard to the posting on Wikipedia, as explained in \u201cWere the Comfort Stations Established Because of a Demand Made by the Occupation Forces?\u201d in part 0-8 of this Q&A, it is clear that the description \u201cthe Recreation and Amusement Association was operated by the U.S. military\u201d is false. How can they claim that it was \u201coperated by the U.S. military?\u201d Show us the evidence.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAnd as for the claim that \u201cstate-run prostitution facilities have been established the world over,\u201d we want to see evidence that they are \u201coperated\u201d by each country. Even Hata Ikuhiko couldn\u2019t tell such a shameless lie.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIkeda Nobuo\u2019s weblog is cited to form the basis of the above description in Wikipedia. However, comparing both descriptions, it provides nothing of the sort. It may simply be because of a lack of ability to read and understand Japanese. Just to make sure, let\u2019s examine Ikeda Nobuo\u2019s weblog.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIkeda describes as false the remarks Yoshimi Yoshiaki made a news conference at Osaka City Hall on June 4, 2013. The quote reads, \u201cNo other country systematically established comfort stations as military facilities. Japan\u2019s adoption of the comfort women system was unique\u201d First, it is important to remember that Ikeda is quoting from story put out by Kyodo News. Clearly such a report doesn\u2019t convey the whole picture of a news conference, but is summarized by attending reporters. Even an interview that goes on for dozens of minutes is often shown on TV for only a few seconds. It is normal for only the part of the conversation they deem important to be selected and televised.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nLet\u2019s examine what Yoshimi himself has written up until now. In Comfort Women Columbia University Press (2002), he refers to the militaries of various countries and introduces the reader to the comfort stations of the German military and the Schutzstaffel (pp 202 and following). In What Was the Japanese Military \u201cComfort Women\u201d System? (Iwanami Booklet, 2010), he describes that \u201cOnly the Japanese and German military are confirmed to have taken the initiative in establishing, maintaining and managing such a system.\u201d (Page 53)\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\"\u5f93\u8ecd\u6170\u5b89\u5a66\u3000\uff08\u5409\u898b\u7fa9\u660e\uff09\"<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\"\u65e5\u672c\u8ecd\u300c\u6170\u5b89\u5a66\u300d\u5236\u5ea6\u3068\u306f\u4f55\u304b\u3000\uff08\u5409\u898b\u7fa9\u660e\uff09\"<\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAlso, featured in a June 6, 2013 publication of the Center for Research and Documentation on Japan\u2019s War Responsibility (which Yoshimi co-leads) is the \u201cStatement on the Issue of the Japanese Military \u2018Comfort Women\u2019\u201d. It reads as follows:\r\n\r\n \r\n
Some people insist that there have been systems similar to that of the Japanese military\u2019s \u201ccomfort women\u201d in all the countries of the world, but they\u2019ve never presented the data on which they base their arguments. According to research up until now, only Japan and Nazi Germany are known to have adopted national and systematic sexual slavery like the Japanese military \u201ccomfort women\u201d system at the time of World War II. In many countries at that time, a licensed prostitution system didn\u2019t exist from the very beginning (the U.S. is one example) or was abolished (as in the U.K.), and even if soldiers used private brothels, militaries weren\u2019t allowed to systematically establish and operate them.\u3000Sexual violence by foreign military personnel is different from the comfort women system, and responsibility arising from the Japanese military comfort women system can\u2019t be denied by mixing them up. Only after Japan sincerely accepts and acknowledges the fact of this system, as well as its many other serious sex crimes, and only after it apologizes and makes personal compensation, only then may it raise the issue of what may have gone on in other countries.\u00a0<\/span>http:\/\/space.geocities.jp\/japanwarres\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(Japanese only)<\/blockquote>\r\n \r\n\r\nAs we see, Yoshimi does cite the instances of Germany and other countries in his work. Ikeda denounces him as a \u201cforger\u201d or \u201cliar\u201d by intentionally referring only to one brief story that came out of a news conference.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIkeda claims that the prostitution in Germany was \u201cstate-operated\u201d, but on what is he basing this assertion? He also says that, \u201cas distinct from the comfort women system in Japan, Germany\u2019s use of coercion made it a state crime.\u201d If this is the case, he should provide the material forming the basis of his argument that the systems were different. It may be true that women in Germany, as in Japan, were forced to become comfort women, but it is unfair to criticize other countries without providing the material that forms the basis of the criticism. (For reference please see Hata Ikuhiko, Ianfu to senjo no sei [\u201cComfort Women and Sex in War\u201d] Publ: Shinchosha, 1999. Only a brief summary of a book written by Seidler is given and the data which forms the basis of his argument isn\u2019t provided.)\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAnd let\u2019s examine the work by Hata Ikuhiko that Ikeda cites. Ikuhiko writes, \u201cif we really must compare them, the German military controlled the system with orders on the highest level, while in the case of the Japanese military it took place locally, on a very low level. If you exclude things related to transport, it seems they were entrusted mainly with unofficial negotiations on the business side, and it seems the system was operated quite carelessly.\u201d (p. 151) However it was clearly anything but a \u201cvery low level\u201d agency, judging from the fact that \u201crecreation facilities\u201d were listed as being among \u201cofficial military facilities\u201d when the \u201cRegulations for Field Post Exchange\u201d were revised by the Minister of War in September 1937, and in many other documents produced by Ministries such as those of War, Foreign Affairs, Home Affairs, etc. (Please refer to the reference data section of this website for these documents, presently only in Japanese.)\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nMoreover, Ikeda tries to conceal this fact by saying that \u201cIn any case, it doesn\u2019t matter whether there were official or not.\u201d Let us follow his argument. So if the Minister of Defense orders the Self-Defense Force to establish comfort stations and to round-up pimps to enlist women by means of fraud or through human trafficking, and establishes these stations (constructed by the Civil Engineering Squadron of the Self-Defense Force) near the Self-Defense Force Camps, and if the Self-Defense Force enacts regulations to control the comfort stations, not allowing women to go out, and determining what days of the week personnel may use comfort stations, if all of this is true, then \u201cit doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d Not only does it not matter, it is the same as personnel going to the red-light district on their days off. Is this really the intellectual level we have sunk to in Japan, that such arguments are shamelessly made on the internet?\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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