{"id":9259,"date":"2023-09-27T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T17:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fightforjustice.info\/?p=9259"},"modified":"2023-12-05T08:37:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T23:37:31","slug":"2-1-what-is-the-true-nature-of-the-issue-of-the-japanese-military-comfort-women-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fightforjustice.info\/?p=9259&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"2-1 What Is the True Nature of the Issue of the Japanese Military \u201cComfort Women\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\nPeople who try to justify the existence of the Japanese military \u201ccomfort women\u201d system problematize the system only to the extent that violence or coercion against was used. They say that because the fact of violence can\u2019t be proven through documents, this violence and coercion didn\u2019t exist, and there was therefore nothing wrong with the Japanese military \u201ccomfort women\u201d system.\r\n\r\nIs it a right way of discussing this issue? A little thought tell us that it this is an exercise in ignorance and serves to distract people from the real issues.\r\n\r\nWhen the issue of the Japanese military \u201ccomfort women\u201d began to appear, some people emphasized the fact of forced prostitution to attract public attention to the issue. However, as the Japanese military\u2019s and government\u2019s documents and material were disclosed one after another and testimonies from former \u201ccomfort women\u201d were given, researchers and citizens dealing with this issue clearly realized at an early stage that whether violence was used to take the women wasn\u2019t necessarily the major point.\r\n\r\n
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Yoshimi Yoshiaki, \u201cComfort women\u201d (Iwanami Shinsho, April, 1995)<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\nFor example, in Comfort women<\/i> (Iwanami Shinsho, April, 1995) published in 1995 by Yoshimi Yoshiaki, a leading researcher on this issue, \u201ccomfort women\u201d are defined as \u201cthe women who were under the control of the military, imprisoned for a certain period of time without any rights and forced to provide sex to the soldiers, the people who fell into circumstances of \u201cmilitary sexual slavery\u201d (p11).\r\n\r\nIn a conclusion part of this book, \u201cWhat is the true nature of the issue of comfort women\u201d, it is summarized as follows (p231-233):\r\n

First, \u201cit was systematized violence against women in that the military continuously imprisoned women and military personnel raped them in turn without realizing what they were doing was a grave human rights violations against women\u201d.\r\n\r\nSecond, \u201cit was racial and ethnic discrimination\u201d.\r\n\r\nThird, \u201cit was economic hierarchical discrimination\u201d.\r\n\r\nFourth, \u201cit was a violation of international law and a war crime\u201d.<\/blockquote>\r\nIt is also clearly pointed out here that the major point is not the fact that coercion was used to take the women but the fact that women were arrested, imprisoned and under circumstances of sexual slavery after being taken to the military comfort stations\u2015whatever the way they were taken.\r\n\r\nIt is made clear that not only violence was involved in recruitment but also fraud, flattery or trafficking in persons, which were crimes even at that time.\r\n\r\nThis understanding is held by researchers throughout the world. For example, introducing an American\u2019s opinion at a history symposium in 2007, ex-diplomat Togo Kazuhiko says as follows:\r\n
\u201cDiscussion as to whether there was \u201cforced prostitution\u201d or not made by the Japanese has nothing to do with the true nature of this issue. It isn\u2019t an issue that is the focus of attention in general in the world. With regard to the issues of sex, gender and women\u2019s rights, American\u2019s view is completely different from before. When they hear the story of \u201ccomfort women\u201d, the only thing they think is \u201chow would I think if my daughter were made to be a \u201ccomfort women\u201d?\u201d And they are horrified. This is the true nature of the issue. Much more, if \u201ccomfort women\u201d were taken merely by means of flattery, or deception, they are nothing but crimes. Are there any differences between \u201cforced prostitution\u201d and \u201cdeception by flattery and manipulation that makes them unaware of what they are getting into\u201d? If a nation justifies such a system, saying \u201cit was unavoidable at that time\u201d, it is a denier of women\u2019s rights and can\u2019t be recognized at all as an ally.\u201d(\u201cSekai\u201d December, 2012)<\/blockquote>\r\nMoreover, Michael Green, senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council when Bush took office, says as follows:\r\n
\u201cLawmakers in Nagatacho forget the following thing. It doesn\u2019t matter whether the women made to be \u201ccomfort women\u201d were coerced or not. Nobody pays attention to the point except Japan. What matters is that \u201ccomfort women\u201d led lives of misery.\u201d(\u201cAsahi Newspaper<\/i>\u201d March 10th<\/sup>, 2007)<\/blockquote>\r\nWhen a kidnapping incident occurs, it doesn\u2019t matter whether violence or deception was used to take the victim. As long as the victim is arrested and imprisoned, nobody pays attention to the way the victim was taken at first. In both ways, responsibilities for the crime are the same. If you will say since they were taken by means of merely deception, there was nothing wrong, everybody will boo you, saying what a foolish thing to say.\r\n\r\nThe crucial point is the fact that the women were imprisoned in comfort stations and coerced to \u201cprovide sex\u201d and state organs established, operated and officially accepted such a system and enlisted the women.\r\n\r\n\uff082014\u5e7410\u670824\u65e5\u66f4\u65b0\uff09\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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