Posted on 08/11/2013 11:43:38 AM PDT by Renfield
New evidence was unveiled Thursday that Japan’s imperialist army directly managed Asian women for sexual slavery, dealing a fresh blow to Tokyo’s denials of responsibility.
Korea University’s Centre for Korean History disclosed a diary that a Korean manager of Japanese brothels wrote while staying in Myanmar and Singapore between August 1942 and December 1944.
The diary shows that the Japanese army received revenue-related reports from military brothels, examined the bodies of sex slaves and regulated the relocations of sexual entertainment facilities.
“The diary shows the case in which the Japanese military with an absolute personnel management authority issued direct orders and took control of issues regarding the comfort women (sex slaves),” Park Han-yong, professor at the university centre, told a press conference.
“This diary is a historical record that shows the Japanese military, the Japanese Government General of Korea and its military command in Korea were involved in the forced mobilisation of Korean women for sexual slavery.”
Tokyo argues that there is no clear evidence that sex slaves, euphemistically called “comfort women”, were forcibly mobilised by its military. It stressed civilian entities were to blame for the crime, turning a deaf ear to the victims’ calls for an apology and compensation.
Historians presume that at least 50,000 women from Asian countries including Korea, China, the Philippines and Indonesia were forcibly mobilised to serve Japan’s imperialist army.
In the diary, an entry dated July 29, 1943, describes how a woman who left one brothel after getting married was ordered by the military to return.
Another entry, dated March 10, 1943, outlines how some comfort women collectively expressed anger at the order by the army’s 55th division to relocate to a different brothel. Later, they backed down under pressure from the army, the diary said.
The diary also confirmed that the Japanese army recruited Korean women to provide sex to frontline soldiers on at least four occasions. An entry in the diary dated April 6, 1944 touches on the “fourth batch” of comfort women.
Formerly, a US report, written in November 1945, confirmed that 703 comfort women and around 90 people involved in management departed from a Busan port in July 1942.
Oh Chae-hyeon, chief of a local museum, obtained the diary a decade ago at a provincial bookstore during his historical research. After finding it contained much content on comfort women, he decided to offer it to a research centre for in-depth analysis.
According to the Korea University centre, the writer of the diary, who previously worked as a scrivener, moved to Southeast Asia in 1942 for business, and stayed in the region between 1942 and 1944.
Japan’s wartime sexual enslavement has been one of the thorniest issues between Seoul and Tokyo as Seoul regards it as a human rights issue while Tokyo refuses to recognise the wartime crime.
In recent years, Seoul has stressed the issue should quickly be resolved as many of the victims, mostly in their late 80s, have died of old age.
Japan wanted to completely humiliate their conquests. There’s no surprise in this.
Fat Man and Little Boy certainly got rid of that “want.”
Thank God for the Bomb!
The Japs have not formally apologized for any of their 20th Century atrocities. Still the most racist society on planet Earth.
“Still the most racist society on planet Earth.”
I have a frat mate from college who teaches English there at a local gakuen’ and he showed me bars where it blatantly says “no foreigners allowed, japanese only”. It was unreal. And clowns all over the world call us racists. That was 2 years ago though. I’m not gonna broadswipe the entire population as we also have Freepers there but it’s hard to fathom what I saw.
Who gains from sowing discord between South Korea and Japan?
Japan hasn’t changed much, their victims are just more local and much much younger
Japanese companies are racing through SE Asia developing resources and offsetting any bad revelations from the 30s and 40s while China whats to steal...
We could be just as aggressive.
How Japan can pretend this wasn’t happening is weird. Do they even teach their kids about WW2?
I don’t think Americans would ever be like that
When will they ban kiddie porn possession? 12 year old prostitution? things like that?
Time to move on.
The CHiCom wolf is howling around both their doors.
No, they teach their kids that WWII began on August 6, 1945. All which had gone on before was armed interference by western devils in Japan’s “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”
All completely true of course. But hardly unique. The French did more or less the same thing with African women, and did so more recently than WWII.
lol
What they teach their kids about WWII is entirely at odds with the truth. You ought to research this. You’ll be surprised.
Still the same, as it was 10, 20, 30 years ago.
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