This is all part of China's comprehensive information war against the US and Japan:
Comment to me by Keikichi Honna:
Today at 9:15am
Hello Mr. Yon Here is an article on Sankei's website. You may have already known, but just in case. Mr. Jason Morgan of University of Wisconcin (a doctoral candidate in Japanese history) submitted a critical statement in American Historical Association journal, criticizing the Gang of 19 historians who accused Japanese government's request to change the description on so-called "sex slave" as infringement on the freedom of speech. Sankei article is of course in Japanese, and J just found it, so I haven't read Mr. Morgan's original in English. The Sankei article is written by Mr. Yoshihisa Komori, Sankei's Washington correspondent.
Hello Mr. Yon Here is an article on Sankei's website. You may have already known, but just in case. Mr. Jason Morgan of University of Wisconcin (a doctoral candidate in Japanese history) submitted a critical statement in American Historical Association journal, criticizing the Gang of 19 historians who accused Japanese government's request to change the description on so-called "sex slave" as infringement on the freedom of speech. Sankei article is of course in Japanese, and J just found it, so I haven't read Mr. Morgan's original in English. The Sankei article is written by Mr. Yoshihisa Komori, Sankei's Washington correspondent.
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また韓国軍のベトナム人女性を使った慰安所の証拠が米国の資料として出てきた様です。 米軍も共用していたそうです。
ベトナム「韓国慰安所の実態」
米軍といえば、終戦直後、日本人婦女子への度重なるレイプを防ぐ為に日本にも駐留軍用の性的慰安施設団体「特殊慰安施設協会」（RAA)なるものがあったようです。実際に沖縄や神奈川県では米兵による婦女子に対するレイプが激しかったそうです。
これは、現在も続いてる問題でもありますが。
特殊慰安施設
From Washington post April 25/ 2007
GIs Fresquented Japan's CW
Kaburagi wrote that occupation GIs paid upfront and were given tickets and condoms. The first RAA brothel, called Komachien _ The Babe Garden _ had 38 women, but due to high demand that was quickly increased to 100. Each woman serviced from 15 to 60 clients a day.
I tried to link the article from WP but I can't so I will past it.
GIs Frequented Japan's 'Comfort Women'
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By ERIC TALMADGE
The Associated Press
Wednesday, April 25, 2007; 9:45 PM
TOKYO -- Japan's abhorrent practice of enslaving women to provide sex for its troops in World War II has a little-known sequel: After its surrender _ with tacit approval from the U.S. occupation authorities _ Japan set up a similar "comfort women" system for American GIs.
An Associated Press review of historical documents and records _ some never before translated into English _ shows American authorities permitted the official brothel system to operate despite internal reports that women were being coerced into prostitution. The Americans also had full knowledge by then of Japan's atrocious treatment of women in countries across Asia that it conquered during the war.
Tens of thousands of women were employed to provide cheap sex to U.S. troops until the spring of 1946, when Gen. Douglas MacArthur shut the brothels down.
The documents show the brothels were rushed into operation as American forces poured into Japan beginning in August 1945.
"Sadly, we police had to set up sexual comfort stations for the occupation troops," recounts the official history of the Ibaraki Prefectural Police Department, whose jurisdiction is just northeast of Tokyo. "The strategy was, through the special work of experienced women, to create a breakwater to protect regular women and girls."
The orders from the Ministry of the Interior came on Aug. 18, 1945, one day before a Japanese delegation flew to the Philippines to negotiate the terms of their country's surrender and occupation.
The Ibaraki police immediately set to work. The only suitable facility was a dormitory for single police officers, which they quickly converted into a brothel. Bedding from the navy was brought in, along with 20 comfort women. The brothel opened for business Sept. 20.
"As expected, after it opened it was elbow to elbow," the history says. "The comfort women ... had some resistance to selling themselves to men who just yesterday were the enemy, and because of differences in language and race, there were a great deal of apprehensions at first. But they were paid highly, and they gradually came to accept their work peacefully."
Police officials and Tokyo businessmen established a network of brothels under the auspices of the Recreation and Amusement Association, which operated with government funds. On Aug. 28, 1945, an advance wave of occupation troops arrived in Atsugi, just south of Tokyo. By nightfall, the troops found the RAA's first brothel.
"I rushed there with two or three RAA executives, and was surprised to see 500 or 600 soldiers standing in line on the street," Seiichi Kaburagi, the chief of public relations for the RAA, wrote in a 1972 memoir. He said American MPs were barely able to keep the troops under control.
Though arranged and supervised by the police and civilian government, the system mirrored the comfort stations established by the Japanese military abroad during the war.
Kaburagi wrote that occupation GIs paid upfront and were given tickets and condoms. The first RAA brothel, called Komachien _ The Babe Garden _ had 38 women, but due to high demand that was quickly increased to 100. Each woman serviced from 15 to 60 clients a day.
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American historian John Dower, in his book "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of WWII," says the charge for a short session with a prostitute was 15 yen, or about a dollar, roughly the cost of half a pack of cigarettes.
Kaburagi said the sudden demand forced brothel operators to advertise for women who were not licensed prostitutes.
Natsue Takita, a 19-year-old Komachien worker whose relatives had been killed in the war, responded to an ad seeking an office worker. She was told the only positions available were for comfort women and was persuaded to accept the offer.
According to Kaburagi's memoirs, published in Japanese after the occupation ended in 1952, Takita jumped in front of a train a few days after the brothel started operations.
"The worst victims ... were the women who, with no previous experience, answered the ads calling for `Women of the New Japan,'" he wrote.
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By the end of 1945, about 350,000 U.S. troops were occupying Japan. At its peak, Kaburagi wrote, the RAA employed 70,000 prostitutes to serve them. Although there are suspicions, there is not clear evidence non-Japanese comfort women were imported to Japan as part of the program.
Toshiyuki Tanaka, a history professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute, cautioned that Kaburagi's number is hard to document. But he added the RAA was also only part of the picture _ the number of private brothels outside the official system was likely even higher.
The U.S. occupation leadership provided the Japanese government with penicillin for comfort women servicing occupation troops, established prophylactic stations near the RAA brothels and, initially, condoned the troops' use of them, according to documents discovered by Tanaka.
Occupation leaders were not blind to the similarities between the comfort women procured by Japan for its own troops and those it recruited for the GIs.
A Dec. 6, 1945, memorandum from Lt. Col. Hugh McDonald, a senior officer with the Public Health and Welfare Division of the occupation's General Headquarters, shows U.S. occupation forces were aware the Japanese comfort women were often coerced.
"The girl is impressed into contracting by the desperate financial straits of her parents and their urging, occasionally supplemented by her willingness to make such a sacrifice to help her family," he wrote. "It is the belief of our informants, however, that in urban districts the practice of enslaving girls, while much less prevalent than in the past, still exists."
Amid complaints from military chaplains and concerns that disclosure of the brothels would embarrass the occupation forces back in the U.S., on March 25, 1946, MacArthur placed all brothels, comfort stations and other places of prostitution off limits. The RAA soon collapsed.
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MacArthur's primary concern was not only a moral one.
By that time, Tanaka says, more than a quarter of all American GIs in the occupation forces had a sexually transmitted disease.
"The nationwide off-limits policy suddenly put more than 150,000 Japanese women out of a job," Tanaka wrote in a 2002 book on sexual slavery. Most continued to serve the troops illegally. Many had VD and were destitute, he wrote.
Under intense pressure, Japan's government apologized in 1993 for its role in running brothels around Asia and coercing women into serving its troops. The issue remains controversial today.
In January, California Rep. Mike Honda offered a resolution in the House condemning Japan's use of sex slaves, in part to renew pressure on Japan ahead of the closure of the Asian Women's Fund, a private foundation created two years after the apology to compensate comfort women.
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The fund compensated only 285 women in the Philippines, South Korea and Taiwan, out of an estimated 50,000-200,000 comfort women enslaved by Japan's military in those countries during the war. Each received 2 million yen, about $17,800. A handful of Dutch and Indonesian women were also given assistance.
The fund closed, as scheduled, on March 31.
Haruki Wada, the fund's executive director, said its creation marked an important change in attitude among Japan's leadership and represented the will of Japan's "silent majority" to see that justice is done. He also noted that although it was a private organization, the government was its main sponsor, kicking in 4.625 billion yen, about $40 million.
Even so, he admitted it fell short of expectations.
"The vast majority of the women did not come forward," he said.
As a step toward acknowledging and resolving the exploitation of Japanese women, however, it was a complete failure.
Though they were free to do so, no Japanese women sought compensation.
"Not one Japanese woman has come forward to seek compensation or an apology," Wada said. "Unless they feel they can say they were completely forced against their will, they feel they cannot come forward."
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Associated Press investigative researcher Randy Herschaft in New York contributed to this report.
ベトナムでの慰安所も第二次大戦をやり過ごした日本人達が韓国人女性を拉致し経営したのだと思います。終戦時に多くの性奴隷となった彼女たちは殺されましたが、その中で生き残ってもベトナム戦争に連行され再び性奴隷にされたかと思うと涙が止まりません。
WPの記事中に慰安婦総勢に対して支援金の支払い対象が少ないとなっていますが、
そもそも慰安婦の多くは日本人の売春婦、または農村部の貧困家庭から身売りされた女性でした。
そして、日本人の慰安婦は誰も保障や謝罪を申請しなかった。ある慰安婦は、日本兵と恋に落ち、彼を追いかけていた、後には別の日本人男性と結婚もされたという事です。
そして、朝鮮人(韓国人)慰安婦達の
お金や謝罪の手紙の受け取りを強引に拒否させたのは、言わずもがな「挺対協」
因みに、慰安婦詐欺と南京大虐殺詐欺発祥の朝日新聞
記者、植村の義理母は一連の韓国人反日活動家。
植村 隆（うえむら たかし、1958年（昭和33年）4月 - ）は、北星学園大学非常勤講師、元新聞記者、元朝日新聞社社員。1991年（平成3年）、いわゆる従軍慰安婦問題を報道した。当該報道は朝日新聞の吉田証言報道とともに慰安婦問題に関わる最初期の報道であったが、2014年に朝日新聞は、吉田証言報道は虚偽であったとして記事を取り消し、植村記事は挺身隊と慰安婦の混同があり誤用があったとして訂正した[1][2][3][4][5]。元慰安婦が親によって売られたことを訴状に書いていたにもかかわらず、そこに触れずに作成された記事であったため、意図的な捏造であったとも指摘されている（#記事に対する批判参照）[6][7][8][9]。
慰安婦問題の取材のため訪韓をした際に、従軍慰安婦への日本からの補償に取り組む活動家で「太平洋戦争犠牲者遺族会」幹部の梁順任の娘と結婚している
これって、考えてみれば、アメリカの歴史学の大スキャンダルなんじゃないかとと思うんですよね。
確かなエビデンスがあるかどうか吟味することなく、事実認定しちゃったんだから。
しかも、確かなエビデンスがないんじゃないですか、という問いかけに答えようともしていない。
これをもって、アメリカの歴史学は、学問として、あるいは、科学として、ちゃんと機能していないと言われても、反論できないと思うんです。
さらに、その結果、多くの人びとが、まあ、今回は日本人ですが、被害を受けている。
間違いなく、歴史学史上最大のスキャンダルの一つ、そして、歴史学という学問の存亡がかかった大スキャンダルですよ、これは。
だから、従軍慰安婦問題としてではなく、歴史学の問題、歴史学の大スキャンダルとして捉えて、彼らに問い質す必要があると思うのです。
natsumi さん、もう少し勉強してから投稿して下さいね。貴方のような方が嘘を世界中にばら撒くんでしょ。慰安所経営は韓国のお得意芸です。特にベトナムでの慰安婦は十代のベトナム女性が多かったとあります。朴大統領も長年慰安所経営してましたでしょ。韓国の歴史偽造、歴史隠蔽のために日本を利用しない！
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UslLqy1tu44
http://www.altasia.org/hangyore/hangyore99256.htm
>natsumi さん、もう少し勉強してから投稿して下さいね......
natsumiさんは何か意図があってやっているのでしょう。別のエントリーでも同じようなコメントで”活躍”しましたが、もう誰も相手にしないので反論がないんです。
Does anyone know where I can find the post by Jason Morgan? Am interested in reading the whole statement.
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