Park Yuha and the Nuances of the Comfort Women
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- The Comfort Women are an iconic symbol of South Korea, where the government says up to 200,000 were forcibly recruited to sexually service Japanese soldiers. Professor Park Yu-ha says the truth is much more nuanced and that has landed her in court. The professor speaks out in one conversation taking place in Asia... now.
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I'm very proud of you for showing such courage in Korea, a crazy country where public sentiment transcends historical studies and jurisprudence.
I salute you.
Korean Generals among Japanese Imperial troops in WWII (part1)
・Hong Sa-ik (Lieutenant General in 1929)
・Cho Dong-yoon (Lieutenant General in 1920)
・Lee Byung-Mu (Lieutenant General in 1920)
・Lee Hee-doo (Major General in 1920)
・Cho Sung-Geun (Lieutenant General in 1928)
・Eo Dam (Lieutenant General in 1930)
・Wang Yoo-Shik (Major General in 1925)
・Kim Eung-Sung (Major General in 1931)
Hong Sa-ik
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Sa-ik
Hong was placed in command of the Japanese camps holding Allied (primarily US and Filipino) prisoners of war in the Philippines during the latter part of WWII, where many of the camps guards were of Korean ethnicity.
+carbon5858
South Korea is the victim of false. Please perform an apology and compensation to the world.
Park Chung Hee - Second president of South Korea. Became an officer in the Imperial Manchukuo Army. Wrote an oath of loyalty to the Emperor using blood.
"President Park should publicly apologize for South Korea’s sexual violence in Vietnam"
(10/13/2015) : By Norm Coleman
Forty years ago, Park Chung-hee ―the current president’s father and former general, led over 320,000 of his U.S.-allied troops into the War in Vietnam. Throughout the war, South Korean soldiers violently raped and sexually assaulted thousands of young women, some as young as 13 and 14 years of age. Many of the women bore children as a result of these assaults. Today, between 5,000 and 30,000 children of mixed Korean-Vietnamese ancestry, called the "Lai Dai Han," live at the margins of Vietnamese society.
www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/10/13/president-park-should-use-us-visit-to-publicly-apologize-for-south-koreas-sexual-violence-in-vietnam.html
What happened to these women, so many of whom lost their innocence at the hands of South Korean soldiers, is one of the great untold tragedies of the Vietnam War.
+FIFTH RENE 1. Korean high command did not set up "comfort" stations like the Japanese in vietnam. Compared to what Japan did in WWII these were isolated incidents.
Why has South Korea still not Apologized to Vietnam Comfort Women?
www.examiner.com/article/why-has-south-korea-still-not-apologized-to-the-vietnam-comfort-women-2
@@redwhitedude
If you look it up online...yes it was Command driven to establish comfort woman stations made up of vietnamese women during the vietnam war, and the commander of the ROK forces at the time was General Chae Myung-Shin
President Noh officially apologized for the Korean soldiers' sexual assault and killing of Vietnamese civilians. I believe the Vietnamese survivors sought apology and compensation and civic support has been provided. However the Vietnamese 'government' is hesitant to accept it as they want to remain as a winner of the Vietnam war. Their logic is that a winner doesn't seek compensation. This however does not exempt Korea from what they did. Korea does not claim any legality of its act. Hope that Japan stops saying they are sorry for being legal (or they are sorry but it was legal).
This professor is a good person with clear mind.
Korean High-ranking Officers among Japanese Imperial Troops in WWII (part2)
・Yi Un (Prince of Korean Empire, Lieutenant General)
・Lee Eun-Jun (Colonel, later Lieutenant of South Korean Army)
・Kim Seok-Won (Colonel, later major general of SK Army)
・Chae ByungDuk (Major, later Lieutenant General of SK Army)
・Paik Hong-seok (Lieutenant General, later Brigadier General of SK Army)
・Kim Jung-Nyeol (Captain, later air chief marshal of SK Army)
・Jeong Ilgwon (Captain, later Prime Minister of South Korea)
・Jang Do-Young (second lieutenant, later Supreme Council for National Reconstruction of SK)
・Paik Sun-yup (Lieutenant, later General of SK Army)
・Yi Wu (Colonel, Prince of Korean Empire)
+carbon5858 All of them did not have effective control within the Japanese military. They were there just as ceremonial posts and/or postings that were of no consequence.
Sure, like Koreans had command of front line combat troops of the Imperial Japanese Army. lol
Let's face it there were just there to have some semblance of "fair" treatment.
And why didn’t those brave Koreans fight against Japanese troops while those Japanese were kidnapping and raping 300,000 Korean girls? What were those Koreans doing? Why did Korea copy the same comfort women during the Korean War? You shouldn’t use the term like "fair".
Sadly Korean soldiers didn’t fight in the front lines unlike your K-pop fantasy. Koreans mainly had operated camps or comfort stations during WW2. And in Vietnam, Korean troops attacked only small villages and raped little girls and slaughtered innocent old people or pregnant women. Let’s face reality not click K-pop videos. This is why you Korean frauds attacked Park Yuha.
@@dexter6707 The South Koreans also setup comfort women stations made up of vietnamese women during the vietnam war, and it was headed/commanded by General Chae Myung-Shin
Fact에 충실하지 않은 위안부 영화 '귀향'
Now propaganda movie on comfort women is very popular in Korea.
Comfort women’s testimonies have changed and Korean government is agitating anti-Japan nationalism as usual.
www.chogabje.com/toron/toron22/view.asp?idx=&id=133675&table=TNTRCGJ&sub_table=TNTR01CGJ&cPage=1
위안부 영화 '귀향'의 내용 중, 과거 일본의 잘못을 가장크게 상징하는 부분은 이다. 이 영화 자체가 원래 前위안부의 그림(이른바 '태워지는 처녀들')을 모티브로출발한 만큼, 이 부분(위안부 총살하고 불태우는 장면)은 영화의 핵심이라고 볼 수 있다.
이 영화는 '실화'를 바탕으로 만들어진 것이라고 강조되고 있다. 그렇다면, 다른 부분(장면)은 몰라도 적어도 영화의 핵심인 이 장면(총살, 불태우는 장면)만은 확실히Fact여야 한다. 그런데, "탈출 시도한 위안부를 끌고가 총살하고 불에 태웠다"는 증언은 현재로서 어디에도존재하지 않는 듯하다.
No fact----then let’s make anti-Japan movie
No evidence---then let’s set up the statue of comfort woman
No truth------then let’s burn the Japanese flag
Korean War Comfort Women?---------Who cares!!! Korean style.
The United States, South Korea and "Comfort Women" [Korean War Comfort Women]
Following the Korean War (1950-53), the U.S. established bases in Korea to defend the country in case of a North Korean attack; In the 1950s---1970s, the South Korean government and the US Forces in Korea (USFK) jointly agreed to set up "rest and relaxation" centers for American troops....While prostitution is against law in Korea, these centers are nevertheless teeming with prostitutes---or "COMFORT WOMEN"---with an estimated 20,000 in each kijichon.
stanford.edu/group/womenscourage/cgi-bin/blogs/structuralviolence/2009/01/22/the-united-states-south-korea-and-comfort-women/
Korean President "You comfort women are patriots who earn US dollars!"
www.ildaro.com/sub_read.html?uid=4675§ion=sc1§ion2=%BC%BA%B8%C5%B8%C5
Many Korean women were kidnapped by KOREAN MEN and got venereal disease.
"1962 August 14---US soldier murdered a Korean Comfort Woman"
koreanhistorytranslations.blogspot.jp/2012/07/1962-aug-14-us-solider-sentenced-to-15.html US soldier sentenced to 15 years hard labor for murdering a 21-year-old comfort woman, Yu Chun-ja in Daejon, South Korea on July 17.
The Korean government acknowledged its 'legal'(not moral) responsibility through the jurisdiction of violating the women's human rights and assured them that the perpetrator was the Korean government(huge thing) and compensated them (sadly the compensation was a mere amount). The government also imposed itself with residential assistance for the survivors. This verdict has been a greatly symbolic gesture for the victims.
Korean cyber warriors always look away from the fact. Esp when we ask about Korean War comfort women for US troops?
Korean War Comfort Women for US troops (1950-53 : -70s)
Why would anyone give this video a thumbs down? Good information, keep it up!
Anybody who agrees with dubious charges brought by the prosecutors.
+redwhitedude It is very interesting. I have an 81 year old Japanese friend who went to school in Taiwan. He witnessed these comfort women. His father was a doctor for the Japanese military.
+jazzminedoxxy did he get to talk to them?
no, he didn't he was about 9-11 years old. The Japanese soldier he was with mentioned they were 'something'. I cannot recall what my friend said. However, although young, he knew who the women were. He would become a Chinese/ English translator later on . He has other stories of the Chiang kai Shek.
Lee Yonghoon、Kim Wansopu、Han Sunnyo、Cho Gapche、Jo Youngnam,etc.
Even a professor of Seoul University and Korea university and a famous scholar were hit and arrested, and it was excluded from Korean society.
Each person's way of thinking should be permitted society.
excuse me? Who was ARRESTED?
“The Australian Army and the Vietnam War.”
When the 1st and 2nd Platoons entered the village, the enemy had already fled and only the women, children, and elderly, about 70-80 in number, remained. They were ordered to leave the village and walk toward the rear, in the direction of Highway 1 where the 3rd Platoon was moving up toward the village. Soon after the 1st and 2nd Platoons left the village, rounds of gunfire were heard in the rear. The following day, the leader of the 2nd Platoon, Lieutenant Lee Sang Woo, found 40-50 dead bodies covered with straw mats by their family members near Highway 1, the area to which the villagers were order to evacuate the day before. Lee testified, after more than 30 years, that he heard from others that his comrades in the rear had massacred the evacuating civilians.
Again, according to Kim Ki Tae, a marine captain, his company took part in a 'cut and destroy' operation named YONG AN in Quang Ngai province in November 1966. During the early phase of the operation, Kim testified after nearly 35 years, his soldiers entered a hamlet, rounded up between 40-50 villagers, and collected their names while giving out candies and cigarettes to children. Kim, feeling that the entire operation had already caused an alarming number of civilian casualties, ordered his men to 'let them go'. However, soon after giving that order and moving away from the group, he heard rifle shots and exploding hand grenades. He turned around and found the situation to be as irretrievable as 'water spilled on the ground'. Under the circumstance the best he could do was to order his men to make sure that there would not be any survivors to tell the story. Kim also related that sometimes children, after being given candies and cigarettes, were killed by the more experienced soldiers in order for them to demonstrate to the fresh recruits the coldheartedness required of a soldier in Vietnam. Such killings of children were rationalised as eliminating the next generation of VC who would seek revenge for what was done to their villages and families.
日本の併合時代に関しては韓国人らしい事実誤認はあるが、この教授の言っているこは正しいよ。
There is Korean typical actual mistake about the Japanese merger age, but it's right of this professor to be talking about it.
These photos were taken during the annexation (1910-45) by American pastors, Maryknoll Missionary.
pictorial.hani.co.kr/slide.hani?sec1=005&sec2=001&sec3=145&seq=0
This is the hell? XDDDDDDDDD
Where is "300,000 sex slaves"? XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Plastic surgery K-pop failed as usual :))))
A wedding ceremony by a Korean couple( 平安北道新義州進士同大聖堂) in North Pyongan Province in 1937
i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/516838/slide_516838_7273178_free.jpg
Korean students and the school excursion in Pyongyang in 1937
livedoor.blogimg.jp/greatprc-you1/imgs/9/3/93f9851c.jpg
3 Korean children in 1933
livedoor.blogimg.jp/greatprc-you1/imgs/c/1/c15d1e66.jpg
Korean Newspaper Reports from 1930's
March 28, 1939 Donga Ilbo
Over 50 women were deceived by a Korean trafficker (Bae Jang-eon 배장언)
and sent to Northern China & Manchuria.
He was arrested and the women were rescued by Japanese policemen.
June 30, 1933 Donga Ilbo
A girl was kidnapped from the street by
Korean traffickers (Park Myeong-dong & Lee Seong-nyeo)
May 14, 1936 Maeil Shinbo
Traffickers (Korean comfort station owners' agents) were arrested
by police for deceiving women from farming villages.
Four women were rescued.
August 31, 1939 Donga Ilbo
Over 100 women from farming villages were deceived
by Korean traffickers (Kim Ok-man 김옥만 & his family)
They were arrested and the women were rescued by Japanese policemen.
July 9, 1936 Maeil Shinbo
Three Korean traffickers (Hwang Geum-jeong, Park Geum-hee & Lee Deok-sun)
were arrested for deceiving innocent girls.
March 7, 1935 Donga Ilbo
About 2,000 Korean women work in the Shanghai slum.
These prostitutes tarnish our reputation.
But we can't stop them because they voluntarily stay there for economic reasons.
July 1, 1933 Donga Ilbo
A leader of the Korean group that trafficked girls to
Korean comfort station owners was arrested last night.
February 14, 1936 Maeil Shinbo
Korean traffickers who deceived and sold women
to Korean comfort station owners were arrested by police.
March 28, 1939 Maeil Shinbo
A group of Korean traffickers deceived and sold
over 100 women from farming villages.
The women were rescued by Japanese policemen.
October 27, 1944 Maeil Shinbo
Comfort women wanted ad by a Korean comfort station owner.
Park Yu Ha should be allowed to give her exccllent balanced view on what occurred so I cannot wait until her book is translated for rest of the world to read.
This woman is clearly wrong. In the end, as she proved, there was no proof and no fact that Japanese troops had kidnapped and force 200,000 Korean women to be comfort women. But she criticized Japan. I cannot understand the logic at all.
Or can’t she say "comfort women were just prostitutes and they had earned much money, so we Koreans copied the same comfort women system during the Korean war but we couldn’t send comfort women enough to Vietnam so our Korean soldiers kidnapped and raped 300,000 Vietnamese girls"?
The South Korean military also setup comfort women stations made up of vietnamese women during the vietnam war, and it was headed/commanded by General Chae Myung-Shin
This woman is brave for openly and directly confronting this issue. Her rational look past emotional dogma is very commendable as is her avoidance of sensationalism and jingoism. In Europe, several independent researchers have tackled Europe's deepest rooted dogma, the Holocaust, with similar results, however the backlash they faced was much worse as Zionism has a much more powerful lobby than Korean ultra-nationalism.
However, if the organizers of this conference wish to address of the issue of free research and free speech on a broader front, I would recommend looking into the work of Germar Rudolf, as well as others such as Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf, Robert Faurisson, Mark Weber, Veronica Clark and David Cole, all of whom have done thoroughly sourced research into the World War Two period in Europe. However, the mainstream has rejected their findings in favor of established dogma and political correctness.
S.Korean government "You comfort women were patriots who earn US$" [Korean War]
122 Korean comfort women for US troops lawsuit
“달러 버는 애국자라 했으면, 병든 우릴 나라가 돌봐야지”
주한미군 위안부 122명, 대한민국 정부 상대 손배 소송
Violence against comfort women was nothing out of the ordinary.
www.sisapress.com/journal/article/140871
이곳에선 포주와 미군에 의한 폭행이 일상이었다.
S.Korean Gov’t "Comfort women are dollar-earning patriots" "Sell your bodies" www.asiatoday.co.kr/view.php?key=198070
i also dont like she is punished in korea for published the book. it is unnatural in freedom country like korea. but the basic problem IS that she didn't respacted comfort women who survived. she crtisized about the method of the fight of survived comfort women. those ladies protested for 23 years every each week. they did that because there was no other way. korean government did not cared about them.
+rooftop weasel
That is what we should call as no freedom in speech?
+yoshitsunekhan yup. it is people's job to discus and critisize with logic about opinion of her. not by government. both japan and korea have same problem like this cause both we IMOPTROTED DEMOCRACY.
rooftop weasel
If it were logical,we can say USArmy are gonna fuck the hell out women,because they don't know when they die.And we can also say,Korean men were gonna fuck the hell out women,because they drafted to war by force.Okay?
+yoshitsunekhan yeah thats what soldiers are. you know what? south korean government also provide sex slaves to US military during 70's and those women were also called as comfort women. funny isnt it? at that time the president of south korea was park. who committed qu and succeed. means dictator. he rulled korea for 18 years. and point is that he was also a japanese empire army lieutenant who was volunteered. he was japan friendly.
rooftop weasel
Then why do you blame only Japan?
I am a Korean American (KA), came here at age 10, now 40 years later, I am a patriotic KA (USA), and served in the US Armed Forces in combat arms. I get it and for the record, the most egregious human right atrocities in history were committed by the American Southern Planation (prison camp) folks. All below pales in comparison and remnants drive our politics to this day, the American Caste system is alive and well, at least for the next 40 years. Koreans are exceptional at feign ignorance but be assured we do it better - greatest American innovation was slavery. The real question is what now? Simply, US needs to lead, lay everything on the table and end this between South Korea (SK) and Japan. Outside looking in (love for SK and Japan), if SK and Japan were to build genuine trust and form a real alliance, you guys would be the envy/model of the world (11/2/2020). Professor Park is a genuine South Korean patriot, thank you so much for your work, I couldn't find your book in English. For me here in the US, COVID-19 shook me to my core, used the time to research Korean history from 1865 (right after the American Civil War) to now. I've cried out loud many times and always looked at the global time line, activities, etc. The next extinction event will be based on population vs. resources, we need to get focused here. This tragic comedy must end. Dokdo issue and how I take it? I grew up in Ulleungdo until age 10 then came here. So even the political right in SK, you ain't got nothing on me. Genuine and real trust: it is not up to the US to recognize Dokdo but Japan. US must lead or we can all play/believe what feels good. :-), "what a beautiful world."
Seriously she needs to defend her work front of academics who will refute her claims
Steve, the correct term is "sex slaves" , not "sexual slaves".
The report of this professor is not even close to the real. It is described from the point of Koreans. The comfort women were no more than the prostitutes who were paid really good. They volunteered to get the job for their sake. The number is also terribly exaggerated. Korean was at most 40 % of whole comfort women and the majority of them were the Japanese. The entire number of those women were 20,000 at most. So Korean women were no more than 8,000. They were not enforced. They wanted that job. It is the most plausible conclusion from the evidences we got. There is no way that this professor is sued for this Korean friendly report. There is no freedom of speech in this tiny developing country. It's really disgusting to see this stupid nation keep stalking to Japan for no reason.
Great More Nipponese fascists. ;)
Best part : US troops "Korean comfort women were ugly and stupid" (1944)
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Japanese_Prisoner_of_War_Interrogation_Report_No._49_p2.png
(Personality) The interrogations show the average Korean"comfort girl" to be about 25 years old, uneducated, childish, and selfish. She is not pretty either by Japanese nor Caucasian standards. She is inclined to be egotistical and likes to talk about herself......but she "knows the wiles of a woman."
Best part 2 : US troops "Korean comfort women were enjoying shopping" (1944)
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Japanese_Prisoner_of_War_Interrogation_Report_No._49_p1.png
(Living and Working Conditions) While in Burma, they amused themselves by participating in sports events with both officers and men, and attended picnics, entertainments, and social dinners. They had a photograph and in the towns they were allowed to go shopping.
Jogye I'm counting at least 6 Nipponese fascists.
+dokkiro ... Watch ! Your brainless words will just make Koreans even worse.
Hahaha, This has to be one of the SNL stuff.
What about sexual abuse in today's North Korea and Mainland China to remember film "Neo Seoul 2144 AD" of how some East Asian restaurants were convicted of human trafficking?
Just yesterday, I was watching a “Timeline - World History Documentaries” video about the legendary March 28, 1942 Commando Raid on the dry dock at St. Nazaire, German-occupied France that resulted in depriving the German Navy of a port on the Atlantic to conduct repairs and maintenance on the Tirpitz, safe from the immediate threat of British attacks in the Channel. While awed at the mind-boggling bravery of this -- let’s not mince words -- suicide mission conducted against all odds, against common sense, albeit with PM Churchill’s blessings, I could not help thinking of what history would remember of such mission if carried out by Japanese forces across the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. For some, always the same wokish miscreants, if it’s Japanese, it’s depraved, devoid of humanity and only deserving of scorn. And now back to the subject of Korean Japanese prostitutes and camp followers and the Korean Japanese pimps rings -- not the Japanese military -- that inducted them into the trade. When the Imperial Japanese Army was top dog in Asia, Japanese garrisons played the same role of magnet to the sex trade in the region that US bases the world over will play in the post WWII period. The US military and allied UN forces in the Korean conflict used Japan as R&R location. The US military in Vietnam used Saigon, Bangkok, Taipei and Manila as R&R locations. When about to visit a brothel, Japanese servicemen used to talk about an errand at the “Bank Of Korea” (朝鮮銀行, Chōsen ginkō). The October 1, 1944 Report 49 of interrogation of Korean Japanese prostitutes conducted at Ledo Stockade between Aug. 20 - Sept. 10, 1944 portrays self-centered, pampered girls. Their income was equivalent to that of a IJA captain. Some married one of their johns. The sex trade in Korea was part and parcel of the Korean culture with the kisaengs (妓生), also called gineos (妓女) of the Joseon period. The South-Korean sex trade flourished again with UN troops during the Korean war. Korean prostitutes used to openly pride themselves of shoring up the South Korean treasury and of jump-starting the economy of South-Korea with badly needed foreign currencies during the 1950s-60s-70s-80s. The group behind the comfort women issue, Chong Dae Hyup, are infiltrated with North Korean agents in South Korea. And Beijing, that aims at dividing and conquering the United States, Japan and South-Korea, is behind this malign disinformation campaign. They team up with anti-American left-wing Japanese journalists, lawyers and feminists groups in Japan and around the world. As Michael Yon and others have already long cautioned, there is clear evidence already in the discussions related to this issue in social media that this will ultimately be used to attack the USA. Korean Comfort Women = Black Lives Matter. Some pointers to help you wake up and move in the right direction shoulder-to-shoulder with Japan against China, now. "Recovering the Truth about the Comfort Women", Ramseyer, Mark, Japan Forward, January 12, 2021. The Truth Behind The Comfort Women - Michael Yon Conference on CZcams. NOW: Brookhaven, Georgia -- Michael's Dispatches. Report No. 49: Japanese Prisoners of War Interrogation on Prostitution -- Wikisource and Exordio.
the translation here is inaccurate, lacking, and misleading.
i've read this.
Who wins in this uproar? China and the Chong dae hyup who uses this to drive a wedge between Korea and Japan. Perhaps a video covering the organization chong dae hyup?
+redwhitedude They have thus far declined to appear, but I will continue to try and get someone in the future.
+Steve Miller Some how I doubt you will get a balanced view from them.
+Steve Miller Unfortunately I cannot say I feel sorry for her after her admitting to criticism of South Korea in her book. Just think about it for a second. Who would write a book about the slavery and say slaves volunteered to join Confederate to fight against the Union? Who would write that Africans sold Africans and slaves were legally bought imported from Africa? Who would say freed Black slaves owned White Irish slaves without mentioning of becoming illegal in Louisiana long before Civil War? ;)
***** I noticed that Nipponese fascists like to spam a lot of bull shit. That's just like saying not everyone here read "lies my teachers told me"
jeansdude That's called sockpuppetry. If there are Nipponese fascists who pretend to be Americans who justify incarnation of Japanese Americans, that is. I guess that's also called desperation but I don't think I'll quit commenting on this video. Steve Miller despite his credentials did fall for some of Nipponese fascists' assertions. I did also just by talking them that's the reason why I began shooting them all down. However this is one thing that I feel very sympathetic for Japan. They just cannot seem to redefine themselves to go forward ahead...
UNITED STATES
OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION
Psychological Warfare Team
Attached to
U.S. Army Forces
India-Burma Theater
APO 689
Japanese Prisoner
of War Interrogation
Report No. 49. Place interrogated: Ledo Stockade
Date Interrogated: Aug. 20 - Sept. 10, 1944
Date of Report: October 1, 1944
By: T/3 Alex Yorichi
Prisoners: 20 Korean Comfort Girls
Date of Capture: August 10, 1944
Date of Arrival: August 15, 1944
PREFACE
This report is based on the information obtained from the interrogation of twenty Korean "comfort girls" and two Japanese civilians captured around the tenth of August, 1944 in the mopping up operations after the fall of Myitkyin a in Burma.
The report shows how the Japanese recruited these Korean "comfort girls", the conditions under which they lived and worked, their relations with and reaction to the Japanese soldier, and their understanding of the military situation.
A "comfort girl" is nothing more than a prostitute or "professional camp follower" attached to the Japanese Army for the benefit of the soldiers. The word "comfort girl" is peculiar to the Japanese. Other reports show the "comfort girls" have been found wherever it was necessary for the Japanese Army to fight. This report however deals only with the Korean "comfort girls" recruited by the Japanese and attached to their Army in Burma. The Japanese are reported to have shipped some 703 of these girls to Burma in 1942.
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RECRUITING;
Early in May of 1942 Japanese agents arrived in Korea for the purpose of enlisting Korean girls for "comfort service" in newly conquered Japanese territories in Southeast Asia. The nature of this "service" was not specified but it was assumed to be work connected with visiting the wounded in hospitals, rolling bandages, and generally making the soldiers happy. The inducement used by these agents was plenty of money, an opportunity to pay off the family debts, easy work, and the prospect of a new life in a new land, Singapore. On the basis of these false representations many girls enlisted for overseas duty and were rewarded with an advance of a few hundred yen.
The majority of the girls were ignorant and uneducated, although a few had been connected with "oldest profession on earth" before. The contract they signed bound them to Army regulations and to war for the "house master " for a period of from six months to a year depending on the family debt for which they were advanced ...
PERSONALITY;
The interrogations show the average Korean "comfort girl" to be about twenty-five years old, uneducated, childish, and selfish. She is not pretty either by Japanese of Caucasian standards. She is inclined to be egotistical and likes to talk about herself. Her attitude in front of strangers is quiet and demure, but she "knows the wiles of a woman." She claims to dislike her "profession" and would rather not talk either about it or her family. Because of the kind treatment she received as a prisoner from American soldiers at Myitkyina and Ledo, she feels that they are more emotional than Japanese soldiers. She is afraid of Chinese and Indian troops.
LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS;
In Myitkyina the girls were usually quartered in a large two story house (usually a school building) with a separate room for each girl. There each girl lived, slept, and transacted business. In Myitkina their food was prepared by and purchased from the "house master" as they received no regular ration from the Japanese Army. They lived in near-luxury in Burma in comparison to other places. This
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was especially true of their second year in Burma. They lived well because their food and material was not heavily rationed and they had plenty of money with which to purchase desired articles. They were able to buy cloth, shoes, cigarettes, and cosmetics to supplement the many gifts given to them by soldiers who had received "comfort bags" from home.
While in Burma they amused themselves by participating in sports events with both officers and men, and attended picnics, entertainments, and social dinners. They had a phonograph and in the towns they were allowed to go shopping
PRIOR SYSTEM;
The conditions under which they transacted business were regulated by the Army, and in congested areas regulations were strictly enforced. The Army found it necessary in congested areas to install a system of prices, priorities, and schedules for the various units operating in a particular areas.
SCHEDULES;
The soldiers often complained about congestion in the houses. In many situations they were not served and had to leave as the army was very strict about overstaying. In order to overcome this problem the Army set aside certain days for certain units. Usually two men from the unit for the day were stationed at the house to identify soldiers. A roving MP was also on hand to keep order. Following is the schedule used by the "Kyoei" house for the various units of the 18th Division while at Naymyo. (Wednsday was day off and participated in weekly physical exam.)
Soldiers would come to the house, pay the price … The girls were allowed the prerogative of refusing a customer. This was often done if the person were too drunk.
PAY AND LIVING CONDITIONS;
The "house master" received fifty to sixty per cent of the girls' gross earnings depending on how much of a debt each girl had incurred when she signed her contract. This meant that in an average month a girl would gross about fifteen hundred yen. She turned over seven hundred and fifty to the "master". Many
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"masters" made life very difficult for the girls by charging them high prices for food and other articles. In the latter part of 1943 the Army issued orders that certain girls who had paid their debt could return home. Some of the girls were thus allowed to return to Korea.
The interrogations further show that the health of these girls was good. They were well supplied with all types of contraceptives, and often soldiers would bring their own which had been supplied by the army. They were well trained in looking after both themselves and customers in the matter of hygiene. A regular Japanese Army doctor visited the houses once a week and any girl found diseased was given treatment, secluded, and eventually sent to a hospital. This same procedure was carried on within the ranks of the Army itself, but it is interesting to note that a soldier did not lose pay during the period he was confined.
Composite report on three Korean Navy civilians, list no. 78, dated 28 Mar 45, re "Special question on Koreans” (1945)
Military Intelligence Service Captured Personnel & Material Branch
Date of Report: 24 April 1945
Date of Interrogation: 11 April 1945
Serial Nos and Rank: 41J-1150, Civilian, LEE, Bok Do
14J-185, Civilian, PARK, Song Kun
41J-393, Civilian, KANG, Ki Nam
By: Lt. Wilson
COMPOSITE REPORT ON THREE KOREAN NAVY CIVILIANS,
LIST NO. 78, DATED 28 MAR 45, RE "SPECIAL. QUESTION ON KOREANS”
PREAMBLE
The general anti-Japanese feeling of these Koreans is the same as almost all of some 100 Korean PoW questioned by the interrogator. It is probably that some Koreans are opportunists but these 3 appear to be very sincere in their statements which may be considered reliable. A separate report will be made on one PW, the other two are not worth further interrogation.
QUESTIONNAIRE
This report is based on "Interrogations of Koreans", List No. 78 of 28 Mar 45. Paragraph numbers correspond to question numbers in this list.
2. Korean in Local Government:
a. The village headman is always a Korean. He is an elderly man elected by the villagers for his honesty and leadership. The Japanese make no attempt to control the election.
b. Offices held in Korean political divisions:
(a) “Myon" (township) most offices are held by Koreans. Two out of 10 may be Japanese.
(b) "Kun" (county) offices are usually held by Koreans. In Cholla Pukuto (Zenra-hokudo) there are 14 "Kun", 9 of which, in 1942, were
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headed by Koreans, appointed by the Japanese Government (No details).
(c) "Up" (town) offices are held by both Japanese and Koreans depending on the predominance of the population.
(d) "Pu" (city) is always headed by a Japanese but other positions in the city may be held by Koreans.
The governors of "Do" (provinces) are predominatly Japanese. In 1942 the governors of Cholla Puk To (Zenra-hokudo), Chungchong Pukto (Chusei-hokudo), Kangwon Do (Kogendo), and Hwanghae Do (Kokaido) were Koreans, the others Japanese.
c. Since 1940 no change has been noted in the member of Koreans holding government positions.
18. All Korean prostitutes that PoW have seen in the Pacific were volunteers or had been sold by their parents into prostitution. This is proper in the Korean way of thinking but direct conscription of women by the Japanese would be an outrage that the old and young alike would not tolerate. Men would rise up in a rage, killing Japanese no matter what consequence they might suffer.
Professor Park is right on the target in a sense we need to hear more diverse narratives on Comfort Women disputes. The People who sued her work is not working for Korean government but for NGO called Justice to the 'Comfort Women' They have organized weekly Wednesday protest in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul for the past 20 years. They worked relentlessly and sincerely to bring this issue to public discourse but all their efforts were in vain as conservative Park's government secretly met and produced "final and irreversibly" agreement with conservative Abe's government on the premise of geopolitical stability. Japanese government may have apologized but left many questions unanswered. First they denied systematic military involvement - private business practice. during recruitment. Second, unless the victims were forcefully taken against their will, they were drafted under the colony governing rules. Third, this is the most appalling denial of extreme cases that they were paid prostitute who made money while providing the sexual comfort. Korean government up until 1990s were military turned into civilian one that restricted freedom of press and speech of the public. Park's government has not consulted with any of the surviving victims how to address the apology and reparation. Monetary atonement is not what those victims have been waiting for. Obviously, there would be different voices how those surviving victims view their suffering and pain - some might see Japanese soldiers as companions, friends, another saw them as oppressors and rapists, and others remembers as a personal tragedy rather than the result of imperial military affairs. The gap between left leaning nationalist' perspectives and conservative right leaning groups are severely schemed and broken down to the point as Professor Park indicated during the interviews, However one thing is clear. those surviving victims are not left alone to fend themselves. they are surrounded by the activists who got empowered to do right thing..Protecting the marginalized and the voiceless.
Sadly even now South Korea is fascism. So now Korea banned the publication of her book. Unlike your delusion, Japan has answered everything and revealed Korea’s lies with proofs. Besides Korea has been distorting history without any proofs and insulting Japan.
Your comfort women fraud has many defects and contradictions. Sadly Korean government and you Korean internet warriors cannot answer them and keep insulting Japan.
1) During WW2, the Allied nations investigated and interviewed Korean comfort women directly and concluded they were just prostitutes. 2) As a fact, Japanese soldiers were not executed for the Korean comfort women. (besides 148 Korean soldiers were jailed and executed in Tokyo Trial.) 3) South Korea had the exact same comfort women during the Korean War. 4) Those comfort stations were called 'Monkey House’ in 70s. 5) Japan and Korea signed the treaty of 1965 and confirmed the all problems including comfort women were settled but now you Koreans distorted history and demand money from Japan shamelessly. 6) South Korea couldn’t send comfort women enough to Vietnam. As a result, Korean soldiers kidnapped and raped many Vietnamese women. But even now South Korean government denied true sex slavery in Vietnam and never apologized to victims. 7) Korean comfort women sued Japan in the democratic nations like US, Japan and the Philippines but lost in the supreme courts. 8) Japanese left wing regime established Asian Women’s Fund and paid money again in 1995. 9) Japanese prime minister, Obuchi Keizo and the Korean president, Kim Daejoong announced "Japan-Republic of Korea Joint Declaration" in 1999 and agreed Korea never demand apologies and money. But Korea broke the promise again. 10) In 1989, Korean comfort women themselves already denied that Japanese troops abducted them. 11) There are many old articles that Japanese police arrested Korean pimps who tried to kidnap or sold Korean girls into comfort stations during the war. As Park Yuha said, Koreans kidnapped or deceived Korean girls.
Lie without any proofs. This is the Korean style.
And Koreans never answer about Korean War comfort women. Koreans called their own women "慰安婦(=comfort women)" in the Japanese term during the Korean War. As a common sense, who would call their own women the term which means Sex Slaves if comfort women were true sex slaves and more than 200,000 women were kidnapped and raped by the Japanese troops?
she gave a kitchen knife for operation called comfort women issue. she is feminist so also doesnt like japanese government. but she didnt respected comfort women as a victim rather patriotic sex volunteer. well, it is not right that she is punished by government by just having an opinion. it is peoples job to discuss and critisize against that.
+rooftop weasel
You seem to say all on the assumption that comfort women were victim.Do you say by what they are victim? If you said it is by Japanese,you should prove it by logic and evidence.
+yoshitsunekhan historical evidence. you could easily find out if you give a little try. if i drafted to war by force and dont know when i am gonna die. i would fuck as many women i can. i would. how about you? isnt most of japanese empire army soldiers forced drafted to war? not volunteered?
+rooftop weasel
Is it logical?
the interpreter isn't doing a good job.
They should have gotten a better interpreter.
Oh, no she digs out all those issues? She is not doing anything good both countries. She goes over right and left wing both coutries. 4 wings?? And dealing with Japanese left wing?? no
Her book is bs
Truth hurts a lot.
Why? Because it's such country.
Why doesn't Korea permit Japan?
Even if Japan does an apology and compensation time and again, why doesn't South Korea
permit? A country called South Korea goes back to selfishness, not the
proclamation of independence an international society admitted, and establishes
building in an own country. Because South Korea is "such country".
This woman reminds me of Fritz Haber, a jewish Nobel laureate who desperately wanted to fit into the German society.
KOREAN WAR COMFORT WOMEN (1950-1970s)
stanford.edu/group/womenscourage/cgi-bin/blogs/structuralviolence/2009/01/22/the-united-states-south-korea-and-comfort-women/ In one particularly egregious example, a 14-year-old Korean girl was abducted and raped by members of the Korean army. She was then given over to an American soldier and subsequently moved to America, where she was then sold into a massage parlor circuit.
Congratulations!
Supreme Court acquits professor in 'comfort women' defamation case
SEOUL, Oct. 26, 2023 (Yonhap) -- The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a retrial by a lower court of a professor who was previously fined for defaming victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery with her book, saying she should not be punished for an academic argument.
Sejong University professor Park Yu-ha was ordered by the Seoul High Court to pay a 10 million-won (US$7,375) fine six years ago after being convicted of defaming sexual slavery victims, euphemistically called "comfort women," with her controversial book "Comfort Women of the Empire."
Victims and other critics claimed the book, published in 2013, disputes the coerciveness of the comfort women system, including portraying their ordeal as prostitution and saying victims had "comrade-like relations" with Japanese troops.
Park was indicted for defamation in November 2015, but a district court found her not guilty in January 2017. The Seoul High Court reversed the decision and fined her in October of the same year.
The professor argued that the book was written for public interest purposes to review Japan's behaviors and is not illegal because it is based on academic research. But the high court said she distorted historical facts and claimed false facts that contradicted reports from the United Nations and the Japanese government.
Sending the case back to the Seoul High Court, the Supreme Court said it is reasonable to view controversial expressions in Park's book as academic arguments or opinions and thus it is difficult to rule she should be punished for defamation due to such expressions.
The academic freedom has been largely attacked through Park Yu-ha's case.
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