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  1. An article in Korean newspaper Kyunghyang Shinmun on June 6, 1977. It says that a Korean comfort station owner traff_cked dozens of Korean comfort women to Rabaul, Papua New Guinea to provide sex to Japanese/ Korean soldiers there during World War II. It was common knowledge in S Korea until the 1970s that Korean comfort station owners recruited Korean women and operated comfort stations, and no S Koreans contested that notion. Then Japanese newspaper published a series of fabricated articles in the 1980's falsely accusing Japanese military of abd_ucting Korean comfort women. S Korean communists with close ties to N Korea thought this was a great opportunity to discredit Japan and block reconciliation between Japan and S Korea. So they formed the anti-Japan lobby group in 1990 and began spreading comfort women lies worldwide.
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  2. Dutch government officially announced that “Dutch government regards the Comfort women system primarily as pros**tution.” 1994
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  3. 🇰🇷🤝❤️🇰🇵🇨🇳
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  4. Dutch government officially announced that “Dutch government regards the Comfort women system primarily as pros**tution.” 1994
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  5. A Chinese group recruited a Philippines human rights organization in secretly working to have this statue erected without the knowledge of the foreign ministry, and with little detail given to the host city government. A historical commission seemed to have coordinated with the women’s group, but is now pointing fingers after having issued a permit faster than it usually does. One of the commission’s members said that the local human rights group Lila Pilipina and other organizations started to work on the comfort woman statue in 2014, and that these groups came to the commission in October of 2017, requesting the inscription to be made. Lila Pilipina is the same group that brought South Korean comfort women activism to the Philippines in the 1990s. Open Only to Chinese Media The names of five individuals and groups are inscribed on the back of the pedestal as donors. Almost all of them are Chinese. Also inscribed, in English, is “Statue of a Filipino Comfort Woman,” along with the name of the Filipino maker of the statue. We asked several people who stopped to look at the statue whether they had ever heard of comfort women before. Not a single person was able to say who the comfort women were. The Wai Ming Charitable Foundation Fund Company Limited, appearing last on the pedestal donor list, is a Hong Kong-based organization whose founder, Chung Wai Ming, is believed to have supported comfort women relief on the Chinese mainland as well as the demands for reparations from Japan. Chinese anti-Japan propaganda, which makes full use of the overseas Chinese network under the “comfort women” banner, was also undertaken in 2015 in Australia. However, the petition to erect a comfort woman statue in a public place was not recognized there on the grounds that it was outside the purview of the local city government to make decisions on such matters. - Foreign Ministry Didn’t Know: Chinese Hand Seen in Comfort Women Statue in Manila
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  6. If you are interested in this issue, try Googling "How Beijing weaponizes‘ comfort women 'as propaganda tool ASIA TIMES " The article says “The “comfort women” issue appears, on the surface, to be a bilateral problem between South Korea and Japan. In reality, it is deeper. The key player is increasingly not South Korea, but China, and the ultimate target is not Japan, but the United States, as the comfort women are co-opted by Beijing in its anti-American information war” “An example of the first is the comfort woman statue that mysteriously appeared in Manila in 2017. An investigation by the Sankei Shimbun revealed that the statue project was orchestrated by Overseas Chinese groups in the Philippines, including the Wai Ming Charitable Trust Foundation Company – long a front for politicizing the comfort women issue in mainland China.”
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  7.  @kellyliu1210  “Anybody who puts on the same plane Japan’s behaviour during World War II and the German one, and who comments unfavorably on Japan’s post war response to its defeat with the German one is either very ignorant or needs a serious reset of his moral compass. - One of the most often rep:eated and most dist:orted myt:hs concerning Japan’s suppo:sed crimes against Korea, concerns the so called “comfort women” Finally about the claims that Germany has properly “atoned” for its crimes while Japan has not. Let me just consider only one aspect. In 1965 the Korean government of Park Chung-hee signed a treaty with Japan, normalizing the relations between the two countries. Under the treaty South Korea received very large amounts of economic aid, grants, loans and, significantly, compensation for victims of Japanese rule. (The Japanese government paid 3 times national budget as a compensation but kept it in secret 40 years in Korea to incite hatred towards Japan and the Korea government keeps trying to hide the truth. Although all individual claims were settled in the 1965 Japan-South Korea Treaty, the Japanese government still offered compensation several times to the Korean women as a good gesture. However, when Japan offered compensation through Asian Women's Fund in 1995(Compensation came with a personal letter of apology from Prime Minister of Japan), South Korean NGO threatened former comfort women not to accept Japan's apology and the compensation. 61 of those who defied the NGO’s order were verified as traitors, their names and addresses were published in newspapers as pros**tutes, and they had to live the rest of their lives in disgrace. South Korean government signed Japan-Korea agreement on the comfort women issue in 2015 and Japanese government paid 1 billion dollars as atonement money to the former Korean comfort women. However, The administration of Korea’s Moon Jae In abandoned the agreement in 2018 without any notification . The dissolution announcement is totally unacceptable for Japan. While the Government of the ROK, including President Moon Jae-in, repeatedly stated in public that it “will not abandon the agreement” and “will not ask for a renegotiation with Japan”) - The Japanese government at that time (1965) offered to compensate individual victims, but the South Korean government refused the offer and insisted that it should receive all the money and itself compensate its citizens. Very little of this money (only USD 250) was paid to individuals and instead was used for economic development of South Korea. The Japanese government has apologized for its comfort women system (which actually was an extension of the licensed pros**tution system that existed both in Korea and Japan before the war and which involved a large number of Japanese pros**tutes as well as those from other countries), Germany has never apologized or paid any compensation to any former pros***utes. In fact, nobody has ever demanded any such things, since these women, which rightly or wrongly were viewed as collaborators in the occupied countries, never found any supporters or defenders” -Professor Andrzej Kozlowski, University of Warsaw
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  8. A Chinese group recruited a Philippines human rights organization in secretly working to have this statue erected without the knowledge of the foreign ministry, and with little detail given to the host city government. A historical commission seemed to have coordinated with the women’s group, but is now pointing fingers after having issued a permit faster than it usually does. One of the commission’s members said that the local human rights group Lila Pilipina and other organizations started to work on the comfort woman statue in 2014, and that these groups came to the commission in October of 2017, requesting the inscription to be made. Lila Pilipina is the same group that brought South Korean comfort women activism to the Philippines in the 1990s. Open Only to Chinese Media The names of five individuals and groups are inscribed on the back of the pedestal as donors. Almost all of them are Chinese. Also inscribed, in English, is “Statue of a Filipino Comfort Woman,” along with the name of the Filipino maker of the statue. We asked several people who stopped to look at the statue whether they had ever heard of comfort women before. Not a single person was able to say who the comfort women were. The Wai Ming Charitable Foundation Fund Company Limited, appearing last on the pedestal donor list, is a Hong Kong-based organization whose founder, Chung Wai Ming, is believed to have supported comfort women relief on the Chinese mainland as well as the demands for reparations from Japan. Chinese anti-Japan propaganda, which makes full use of the overseas Chinese network under the “comfort women” banner, was also undertaken in 2015 in Australia. However, the petition to erect a comfort woman statue in a public place was not recognized there on the grounds that it was outside the purview of the local city government to make decisions on such matters. - Foreign Ministry Didn’t Know: Chinese Hand Seen in Comfort Women Statue in Manila
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  9. -Coaching comfort women and stage-managing testimonies at the UN Tachi saw one other important thing during the UN conference. When she got lost and was wandering through the huge building where the meeting was taking place, she stumbled upon a room where people were gathering. Here, former comfort women who were testifying on a stage were being prompted and trained on how to deliver their lines. Unsurprisingly, the people who were stage-managing the whole operation were Japanese women (activists close tie with communists). In this manner, the former comfort women were being trained as living witnesses to serve the movement.
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  10. Numerous wartime documents define comfort women as prostitutes. ⚫︎Contemporary U.S. Military Sources One primary source is Report No. 49, U.S. Office of War Information, dated October 1, 1944. This is an interrogation report of 20 Korean comfort women in Burma. This report clearly states: A “comfort woman” is nothing more than a pros**tute or professional camp follower. ⚫︎Allied Translator Records and Captured Japanese Documents Another primary source is found in the ATIS (Allied Translator/Interpreter Section) Research Report No. 120. It says, “Amenities of the Japanese Armed Forces,” dated November 15, 1945. Among them are the following: From a captured Japanese document, “Rules for Restaurants and Houses of Pros**tution,” dated February 1943: MANILA: “Persons receiving permission to open business [comfort station] will…submit…copy of personal histories of employees….” “Permission is necessary before anyone joins the establishment.” SHANGHAI SECTOR: “The pros**tutes will possess licenses….” “Unlicensed pros**tutes are strictly prohibited from plying their trade.” “The pros**tute and the operator will share equally the proceeds of the work done by the pros**tute.” “Tacloban Brothel Regulations,” undated: “Places called brothels in these regulations are special brothels operated with Filipino women (licensed pros**tutes).”
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  11. Numerous wartime documents define comfort women as prostitutes. ⚫︎Contemporary U.S. Military Sources One primary source is Report No. 49, U.S. Office of War Information, dated October 1, 1944. This is an interrogation report of 20 Korean comfort women in Burma. This report clearly states: A “comfort woman” is nothing more than a pros**tute or professional camp follower. ⚫︎Allied Translator Records and Captured Japanese Documents Another primary source is found in the ATIS (Allied Translator/Interpreter Section) Research Report No. 120. It says, “Amenities of the Japanese Armed Forces,” dated November 15, 1945. Among them are the following: From a captured Japanese document, “Rules for Restaurants and Houses of Pros**tution,” dated February 1943: MANILA: “Persons receiving permission to open business [comfort station] will…submit…copy of personal histories of employees….” “Permission is necessary before anyone joins the establishment.” SHANGHAI SECTOR: “The pros**tutes will possess licenses….” “Unlicensed pros**tutes are strictly prohibited from plying their trade.” “The pros**tute and the operator will share equally the proceeds of the work done by the pros**tute.” “Tacloban Brothel Regulations,” undated: “Places called brothels in these regulations are special brothels operated with Filipino women (licensed pros**tutes).”
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  13. Numerous wartime documents define comfort women as prostitutes. ⚫︎Contemporary U.S. Military Sources One primary source is Report No. 49, U.S. Office of War Information, dated October 1, 1944. This is an interrogation report of 20 Korean comfort women in Burma. This report clearly states: A “comfort woman” is nothing more than a pros**tute or professional camp follower. ⚫︎Allied Translator Records and Captured Japanese Documents Another primary source is found in the ATIS (Allied Translator/Interpreter Section) Research Report No. 120. It says, “Amenities of the Japanese Armed Forces,” dated November 15, 1945. Among them are the following: From a captured Japanese document, “Rules for Restaurants and Houses of Pros**tution,” dated February 1943: MANILA: “Persons receiving permission to open business [comfort station] will…submit…copy of personal histories of employees….” “Permission is necessary before anyone joins the establishment.” SHANGHAI SECTOR: “The pros**tutes will possess licenses….” “Unlicensed pros**tutes are strictly prohibited from plying their trade.” “The pros**tute and the operator will share equally the proceeds of the work done by the pros**tute.” “Tacloban Brothel Regulations,” undated: “Places called brothels in these regulations are special brothels operated with Filipino women (licensed pros**tutes).”
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  14. Dutch government officially announced that “Dutch government regards the Comfort women system primarily as pros**tution.” 1994
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  15.  @007lisle  [Diary written by Korean worker at comfort stations in Burma, Singapore found] The diary written by a Korean man working at wartime brothels in Burma, which has been found in South Korea. SEOUL -- A diary written by a Korean man working at wartime brothels in Burma (current Myanmar) and Singapore during World War II has recently been found, a discovery that could shed light on the truth behind the role of the Imperial Japanese Army in controversial comfort stations for Japanese soldiers. The Korean man took part in the "4th comfort corps" that left Busan Port on the Korean Peninsula in 1942. He returned home in late 1944. His diary is the first of its kind found in Japan, South Korea and elsewhere. On the issue of so-called "comfort women" for the Imperial Japanese Army during the war, many of the testimonies were made several decades after the end of the war. The diary written by the Korean man -- a third person who had actually witnessed wartime brothels -- is important material to pave the way for cool-headed discussions on the thorny issue. The diary was discovered by Ahn Byong Jik, professor emeritus at Seoul University, who specializes in modern Korean economic history and is knowledgeable about the comfort women issue. A museum in the suburbs of Seoul found a diary and other materials at a second-hand bookshop about 10 years ago. Ahn found the diary while combing through the materials. The diary was written by the man from Kyongsang-namdo on the western part of the Korean Peninsula while working at the wartime brothels from 1943 to 1944. It was written in Chinese characters, katakana and Korean alphabets. The man was born in 1905 and died in 1979. His diary written from 1922 to 1957 can be seen today. In the diary, the man wrote on July 10, 1943, "At this time last year, I boarded a ship at Busan Wharf and took a first step on the southbound trip." On April 6, 1944, he wrote, "When a comfort squad left Busan two years ago, Mr. Tsumura who came as the head of the fourth comfort corps was working (in a market)." A research report compiled in November 1945 by U.S. soldiers who questioned managers of comfort stations caught in Burma says that 703 comfort women and about 90 business operators left Busan Port on July 10, 1942. The accuracy of his diary is backed up by the fact that the date of their departure is the same. Ahn says, "It is certain that the records compiled by the U.S. military refer to the fourth comfort corps." As opposed to the view generally held in South Korea that comfort women were forcibly conscripted by Japanese military and police, Ahn says, "Comfort women were recruited by business operators in Korea, and there was no need for the military to ab* duct them." In the diary, the man touched on relationships between comfort stations, comfort women and the military. He wrote on July 19, 1943, "Two comfort stations that belong to a flying corps were handed over to the logistics command." On July 29, 1943, he wrote, "I've heard that Haruyo and Hiroko who had left (a comfort station) to have conjugal relations (with their husbands) returned to Kinseikan as comfort women again." The Korean man also wrote in his diary on Aug. 13, 1943, "Comfort women went to see a movie, saying that the railway corps will run a movie." He wrote on Oct. 27, 1944, "I was asked by a comfort woman to remit 600 yen, so I withdrew her deposit and sent it from a central post office.” The diary author himself earned 43,000 yen in two years’ time—an enormous sum when one considers the average monthly worker’s salary during that period of time was just 40 yen. The author managed an orchard after returning home, and also served on the board of a private elementary school.
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  16. Dutch government officially announced that “Dutch government regards the Comfort women system primarily as pros**tution.” 1994
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  17. Do you know how they rounded up the former comfort women in Asian countries? The truth is that Japanese leftist / communists lawyers and CCP’s lobbyists went to Asian countries and told them to come forward so that they could get money from the Japanese government if they said they were former comfort women.
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  18. Dutch government officially announced that “Dutch government regards the Comfort women system primarily as pros**tution.” 1994
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  19. Numerous wartime documents define comfort women as prostitutes. ⚫︎Contemporary U.S. Military Sources One primary source is Report No. 49, U.S. Office of War Information, dated October 1, 1944. This is an interrogation report of 20 Korean comfort women in Burma. This report clearly states: A “comfort woman” is nothing more than a pros**tute or professional camp follower. ⚫︎Allied Translator Records and Captured Japanese Documents Another primary source is found in the ATIS (Allied Translator/Interpreter Section) Research Report No. 120. It says, “Amenities of the Japanese Armed Forces,” dated November 15, 1945. Among them are the following: From a captured Japanese document, “Rules for Restaurants and Houses of Pros**tution,” dated February 1943: MANILA: “Persons receiving permission to open business [comfort station] will…submit…copy of personal histories of employees….” “Permission is necessary before anyone joins the establishment.” SHANGHAI SECTOR: “The pros**tutes will possess licenses….” “Unlicensed pros**tutes are strictly prohibited from plying their trade.” “The pros**tute and the operator will share equally the proceeds of the work done by the pros**tute.” “Tacloban Brothel Regulations,” undated: “Places called brothels in these regulations are special brothels operated with Filipino women (licensed pros**tutes).”
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  20. A Chinese group recruited a Philippines human rights organization in secretly working to have this statue erected without the knowledge of the foreign ministry, and with little detail given to the host city government. A historical commission seemed to have coordinated with the women’s group, but is now pointing fingers after having issued a permit faster than it usually does. One of the commission’s members said that the local human rights group Lila Pilipina and other organizations started to work on the comfort woman statue in 2014, and that these groups came to the commission in October of 2017, requesting the inscription to be made. Lila Pilipina is the same group that brought South Korean comfort women activism to the Philippines in the 1990s. Open Only to Chinese Media The names of five individuals and groups are inscribed on the back of the pedestal as donors. Almost all of them are Chinese. Also inscribed, in English, is “Statue of a Filipino Comfort Woman,” along with the name of the Filipino maker of the statue. We asked several people who stopped to look at the statue whether they had ever heard of comfort women before. Not a single person was able to say who the comfort women were. The Wai Ming Charitable Foundation Fund Company Limited, appearing last on the pedestal donor list, is a Hong Kong-based organization whose founder, Chung Wai Ming, is believed to have supported comfort women relief on the Chinese mainland as well as the demands for reparations from Japan. Chinese anti-Japan propaganda, which makes full use of the overseas Chinese network under the “comfort women” banner, was also undertaken in 2015 in Australia. However, the petition to erect a comfort woman statue in a public place was not recognized there on the grounds that it was outside the purview of the local city government to make decisions on such matters. - Foreign Ministry Didn’t Know: Chinese Hand Seen in Comfort Women Statue in Manila
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  21. Comfort Women and the Professors HARVARD JOHN M. OLIN CENTER FOR LAW, ECONOMICS, AND BUSINESS Abstract: We in the West have embraced an odd "narrative." The Japanese army of the 1930s and 1940s, we write, forcibly drafted 200,000 mostly Korean teenage girls into "rape camps" called "comfort stations." Should anyone question the story, we summarily consign the person to "denier" status. This makes for a strange phenomenon. Only a few of the comfort women claim to have been forcibly recruited, and several of them had told a different story before the reparations campaign against Japan began. A strongly leftist affiliate runs their nursing home, controls whom they can see, and vilifies any woman who might say anything else. In fact, no one has ever located any documentary evidence that the Japanese military forcibly recruited any Korean woman into a comfort station. And when Korean academics question the orthodox account, their own government sometimes prosecutes them for criminal defamation -- indeed, sent one heterodox professor last fall to six months in prison
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  22. Asian Boss= Korean based propaganda channel funded by China
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  23. If you are interested in this issue, try Googling "How Beijing weaponizes ‘comfort women' as propaganda tool ASIA TIMES" The article says “The “comfort women” issue appears, on the surface, to be a bilateral problem between South Korea and Japan. In reality, it is deeper. The key player is increasingly not South Korea, but China, and the ultimate target is not Japan, but the United States, as the comfort women are co-opted by Beijing in its anti-American information war” “It is notable that several prominent persons connected with Korean Council, the most vocal comfort woman-related NGO in South Korea, have been arrested as North Korean sp*ies.” “An example of the first is the comfort woman statue that mysteriously appeared in Manila in 2017. An investigation by the Sankei Shimbun revealed that the statue project was orchestrated by Overseas Chinese groups in the Philippines, including the Wai Ming Charitable Trust Foundation Company – long a front for politicizing the comfort women issue in mainland China.”
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  24. The many contemporaneous records of the allied forces at the end of the war clearly identify comfort women as contract pros**tutes Operators are listed as civilians. Countrymen are identified as Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese. There is no mention of any comfort station operated by military personnel. All comfort stations with Korean women were operated by Koreans, Japanese women by Japanese. ⚫︎MANILA: “Persons receiving permission to open business comfort station will submit copy of personal histories of employees “Permission is necessary before anyone joins the establishment.” ⚫︎SHANGHAI SECTOR: “The pros***utes will possess licenses….” “Unlicensed pros***utes are strictly prohibited from plying their trade.” “The pros***utes and the operator will share equally the proceeds of the work done by the pros***utes.” ⚫︎Tacloban Brothel Regulations,” undated: “Places called brothels in these regulations are special brothels operated with Filipino women (licensed pros***ution).”
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  25. “Lila Pilipina is the same group that brought South Korean comfort women activism to the Philippines in the 1990s.
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  26. It was common knowledge in Korea until the 1970s that Korean comfort station owners recruited Korean women and operated comfort stations, and no Koreans opposed that concept. Then Japanese newspaper published a series of fabricated articles in the 1980's falsely accusing Japanese military of coercing Korean comfort women. Korean communists with close ties to NK thought this was a great opportunity to defame Japan and block reconciliation between Japan and Korea. So they formed the anti-Japan lobby group in 1990 and began spreading comfort women’s false testimonies worldwide.
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  27. The US government, under the Clinton and Bush administrations, spent 7 years and 30 million dollars to look into German and Japanese war crimes. After 7 years of research, they found no evidence of the forced prostitution of comfort women, the Nanjing Massacre. The IWG report was published in the spring of 2007. Out of millions of pages of newly declassified material, much of it related to Japan, and they were unable to find evidence of forced prostitution. They also looked for information about the Nanjing Massacre and unit 731, but found no smoking guns. Nobody doubts that there was a massacre in Nanjing, and nobody doubts the Chinese ability to exaggerate by orders of magnitude, and then to believe their own stories. A Chinese organization lobbied for the IWG investigation. The “Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WWII in Asia” (Global Alliance). It should be noted that Global Alliance was closely associated with Iris Chang, author of “The Rape of Nanking”. Surprisingly, the IWG report offers an apology to Global Alliance for not finding anything.
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  28. This group works all over the world to spread the lies of the comfort women. For example, Lila filipina was founded in the Philippines by the same organization It’s also the same organization that is spreading the Lai Dai Han issue in the UK. They have close ties with North Korea and now they are targeting South Korea. Of course, the CCP is behind the scene
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  29. The Fabrication and Spread of the “Comfort Women = Sex Slaves” Theory Totsuka Etsuro: The author of the “sex slave” concept The man who first proposed to the United Nations that the comfort women be referred to as “sex slaves” was the Japanese human rights lawyer Totsuka Etsuro(CCP’s Agent) Totsuka brought up the term “sex slave” before the UN Commission on Human Rights, and before long UN bodies had accordingly defined the comfort women as being “sex slaves”. The idea that the comfort women were sex slaves did not arise from the findings of any empirical investigation, nor was it conceptualized on the basis of any facts. Totsuka said that the idea of adopting the term “sex slaves” simply popped into his mind one day. According to Fujiki, when Totsuka was asked about how he came up with the term “sex slaves”, he said, “I had a hunch! It was intuition!” He then continued as follows: “It’s amazing, isn’t it? I had been frequenting the United Nations for thirty-four years. During that time, I submitted over twenty motions to discuss instances of Japanese human rights violations and delivered statements on them here, but not one was taken up. And yet, in 1992, when I reframed the comfort women as being sex slaves, the UN commissioners were glued to my every word. So you see, it’s incredible, isn’t it?”
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  30. -At UN human rights conference The representative from Taiwan started by saying, “Unlike the women from Korea, Taiwanese women are gentle and obedient, so the Japanese soldiers treated us kindly. That’s why we take a somewhat different stance from the Koreans who stridently demand reparations.” The participants in the conference suddenly erupted into jeer and exclaimed, “What are you saying!” Before she had finished speaking, the conference room fell into pandemonium as the attendees threw fits or began approaching the podium. One person yelled, “Stop interpreting!”, and the interpreter abruptly halted. The ones who had shouted her down were well-known Japanese human rights activists.(communists) After the conference reopened, a Thai woman who said that she was living in India shouted at the top of her lungs, “British soldiers did the same sort of things, no, even worse things, when they were stationed in India. Why aren’t you talking about that too?”
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  31. Please think logically. Ask anyone who has been in the military and they will immediately understand how difficult this can be.↓ Did Japanese army have enough resources to secretly kid_nap, transport, guard, and feed 200,000 women without starting another war? And what did they do with them when the fighting was over? Kid_napping 200,000 would not leave just 200,000 witnesses. Each human being is part of a wide network of family and acquaintances and even bystanders. Kid_napping hundreds of thousands of people would leave millions of witnesses from many countries and cultures. What did the kid_nappers do with the women they supposedly kid_napped? The accusers claim mass murder. Where are the bodies?
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  32.  @andyng5321  The Japanese and Korean governments searched the world over for evidence that comfort women were coerced, but found none, only newspaper advertisements by Korean owners. Even the enemy at the time, the United States and the Allied Forces, concluded that they were wartime prost**utes.
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  33. The many contemporaneous records of the allied forces at the end of the war clearly identify comfort women as contract pros**tutes Operators are listed as civilians. Countrymen are identified as Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese. There is no mention of any comfort station operated by military personnel. All comfort stations with Korean women were operated by Koreans, Japanese women by Japanese. ⚫︎MANILA: “Persons receiving permission to open business comfort station will submit copy of personal histories of employees “Permission is necessary before anyone joins the establishment.” ⚫︎SHANGHAI SECTOR: “The pros***utes will possess licenses….” “Unlicensed pros***utes are strictly prohibited from plying their trade.” “The pros***utes and the operator will share equally the proceeds of the work done by the pros***utes.” ⚫︎Tacloban Brothel Regulations,” undated: “Places called brothels in these regulations are special brothels operated with Filipino women (licensed pros***ution).” —- “Lila Pilipina is the same group that brought South Korean comfort women activism to the Philippines in the 1990s.
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  34. She is not Japanese but Wumao or notorious VANK
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  35. [Diary written by Korean worker at comfort stations in Burma, Singapore found] The diary written by a Korean man working at wartime brothels in Burma, which has been found in South Korea. SEOUL -- A diary written by a Korean man working at wartime brothels in Burma (current Myanmar) and Singapore during World War II has recently been found, a discovery that could shed light on the truth behind the role of the Imperial Japanese Army in controversial comfort stations for Japanese soldiers. The Korean man took part in the "4th comfort corps" that left Busan Port on the Korean Peninsula in 1942. He returned home in late 1944. His diary is the first of its kind found in Japan, South Korea and elsewhere. On the issue of so-called "comfort women" for the Imperial Japanese Army during the war, many of the testimonies were made several decades after the end of the war. The diary written by the Korean man -- a third person who had actually witnessed wartime brothels -- is important material to pave the way for cool-headed discussions on the thorny issue. The diary was discovered by Ahn Byong Jik, professor emeritus at Seoul University, who specializes in modern Korean economic history and is knowledgeable about the comfort women issue. A museum in the suburbs of Seoul found a diary and other materials at a second-hand bookshop about 10 years ago. Ahn found the diary while combing through the materials. The diary was written by the man from Kyongsang-namdo on the western part of the Korean Peninsula while working at the wartime brothels from 1943 to 1944. It was written in Chinese characters, katakana and Korean alphabets. The man was born in 1905 and died in 1979. His diary written from 1922 to 1957 can be seen today. In the diary, the man wrote on July 10, 1943, "At this time last year, I boarded a ship at Busan Wharf and took a first step on the southbound trip." On April 6, 1944, he wrote, "When a comfort squad left Busan two years ago, Mr. Tsumura who came as the head of the fourth comfort corps was working (in a market)." A research report compiled in November 1945 by U.S. soldiers who questioned managers of comfort stations caught in Burma says that 703 comfort women and about 90 business operators left Busan Port on July 10, 1942. The accuracy of his diary is backed up by the fact that the date of their departure is the same. Ahn says, "It is certain that the records compiled by the U.S. military refer to the fourth comfort corps." As opposed to the view generally held in South Korea that comfort women were forcibly conscripted by Japanese military and police, Ahn says, "Comfort women were recruited by business operators in Korea, and there was no need for the military to abduct them." In the diary, the man touched on relationships between comfort stations, comfort women and the military. He wrote on July 19, 1943, "Two comfort stations that belong to a flying corps were handed over to the logistics command." On July 29, 1943, he wrote, "I've heard that Haruyo and Hiroko who had left (a comfort station) to have conjugal relations (with their husbands) returned to Kinseikan as comfort women again." The Korean man also wrote in his diary on Aug. 13, 1943, "Comfort women went to see a movie, saying that the railway corps will run a movie." He wrote on Oct. 27, 1944, "I was asked by a comfort woman to remit 600 yen, so I withdrew her deposit and sent it from a central post office.” The diary author himself earned 43,000 yen in two years’ time—an enormous sum when one considers the average monthly worker’s salary during that period of time was just 40 yen. The author managed an orchard after returning home, and also served on the board of a private elementary school.
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  36. -1944 Oct 27 - Recruitment Ad for Korean Comfort Women The following is a recruitment ad for military comfort women from the October 27, 1944 edition of the Korean newspaper Maeil Sinbo. [Military] Comfort Women Urgent Recruitment Destination - ** Camp Comfort Woman Station Qualifications for Recruitment - Age between 18 and 30; good physical health Recruitment Period - From October 27 to November 8 Departure Date - Approximately November 10 Contract and Remuneration - Decided immediately after interview with individual Number of Recruits - Ten Aspirants should make urgent inquiries at the following place: Kyeongseong-bu, Jongro-gu, Akwon-jeong 195 Inside Joseon Inn Gwang (3) 2645 Mr. Heo (Korean)
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  37. Numerous wartime documents define comfort women as prostitutes. ⚫︎Contemporary U.S. Military Sources One primary source is Report No. 49, U.S. Office of War Information, dated October 1, 1944. This is an interrogation report of 20 Korean comfort women in Burma. This report clearly states: A “comfort woman” is nothing more than a pros**tute or professional camp follower. ⚫︎Allied Translator Records and Captured Japanese Documents Another primary source is found in the ATIS (Allied Translator/Interpreter Section) Research Report No. 120. It says, “Amenities of the Japanese Armed Forces,” dated November 15, 1945. Among them are the following: From a captured Japanese document, “Rules for Restaurants and Houses of Pros**tution,” dated February 1943: MANILA: “Persons receiving permission to open business [comfort station] will…submit…copy of personal histories of employees….” “Permission is necessary before anyone joins the establishment.” SHANGHAI SECTOR: “The pros**tutes will possess licenses….” “Unlicensed pros**tutes are strictly prohibited from plying their trade.” “The pros**tute and the operator will share equally the proceeds of the work done by the pros**tute.” “Tacloban Brothel Regulations,” undated: “Places called brothels in these regulations are special brothels operated with Filipino women (licensed pros**tutes).”
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  38. Korean scholar says: The ROK is currently a haven of lies. From the 1960s to 1970s, when women from rural areas were wandering around Seoul Station, someone always approached them to talk to them. They would ask, “Aren’t you hungry? Aren’t you cold?” “Yes.” “Why don’t you come with me? I can give you something to eat in a warm place.” So they followed the person and found themselves in a place that you can easily imagine. That is what happened to comfort women. However, when comfort women were taken away, traders, or procurers, made contracts with their parents and family members and paid in advance. It is a loan from the employer. KIM Hak-soon testified first on August 14, 1991 that she had been a comfort woman. In fact, she was also bought by her foster father for 40 yen. Her mother sold her for 40 yen. KIM Hak-soon’s foster father gave her kisaeng training at an academy and attempted to do business within the country but could not because she fell short of the legal age. Accordingly, in order to take her to China, he asked KIM’s mother if he could “take her to China,” to which she consented. At the time of departure, KIM testified, her mother went to Pyongyang Station to sell her, carrying a yellow sweater. Now, none of these women, KIM Hak-soon, LEE Yong-soo, KIL Won-ok or KIM Bok-dong, said in their testimonies that they were taken away by the Japanese army. YOON Mi-hyang of the Korean Council for the Women Drafted, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and Moon Jae-in are all lying. All of you must know the truth. The reason why we are making a statement here is that these lies fill the entire ROK, causing conflict and division between Korean people. The lie forces Japan to break their relationship with South Korea. We must know correct history. By knowing correct history, the people’s thinking will be one. In that sense, “the comfort woman statue symbolizing hatred and conflict”, “this comfort woman statue symbolizing lies and fabrication” must definitely be removed.” -Director of the Korean History Textbook Research Institute
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  39. “An example of the first is the comfort woman statue that mysteriously appeared in Manila in 2017. An investigation by the Sankei Shimbun revealed that the statue project was orchestrated by Overseas Chinese groups in the Philippines” - “How Beijing weaponizes ‘comfort women’ as propaganda tool Asia times”
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  40. It is notable that several prominent persons connected with Korean Council, the most vocal comfort woman-related NGO in South Korea, have been arrested as North Korean sp*ies. ⚫︎Yun Mi-Hyang was investigated for working with North Korea in 2013. ✴︎September 14, 2020, She was indicted on eight charges including fraud, embezzlement and breach of trust.   ⚫︎Kim Sam-Suk (Yun Mi-Hyang's husband) was arrested as a North Korean sp*y in 1993. ⚫︎Kim Eun-Ju (Kim Sam-Suk's sister) was arrested as a North Korean sp*y in 1993. ⚫︎Choi Gi-Yong (Kim Eun-Ju's husband) was arrested as a North Korean sp*y in 2006. ⚫︎Lee Seok-Gi (member) was arrested as a North Korean sp*y in 2013.
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  41.  @rebeccaw68  Google “How Beijing weaponizes ‘comfort women’ as propaganda tool Asia times” and “Comfort Women Articles by Scholars”
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  42. A Chinese group recruited a Philippines human rights organization in secretly working to have this statue erected without the knowledge of the foreign ministry, and with little detail given to the host city government. A historical commission seemed to have coordinated with the women’s group, but is now pointing fingers after having issued a permit faster than it usually does. One of the commission’s members said that the local human rights group Lila Pilipina and other organizations started to work on the comfort woman statue in 2014, and that these groups came to the commission in October of 2017, requesting the inscription to be made. Lila Pilipina is the same group that brought South Korean comfort women activism to the Philippines in the 1990s. Open Only to Chinese Media The names of five individuals and groups are inscribed on the back of the pedestal as donors. Almost all of them are Chinese. Also inscribed, in English, is “Statue of a Filipino Comfort Woman,” along with the name of the Filipino maker of the statue. We asked several people who stopped to look at the statue whether they had ever heard of comfort women before. Not a single person was able to say who the comfort women were. The Wai Ming Charitable Foundation Fund Company Limited, appearing last on the pedestal donor list, is a Hong Kong-based organization whose founder, Chung Wai Ming, is believed to have supported comfort women relief on the Chinese mainland as well as the demands for reparations from Japan. Chinese anti-Japan propaganda, which makes full use of the overseas Chinese network under the “comfort women” banner, was also undertaken in 2015 in Australia. However, the petition to erect a comfort woman statue in a public place was not recognized there on the grounds that it was outside the purview of the local city government to make decisions on such matters. - Foreign Ministry Didn’t Know: Chinese Hand Seen in Comfort Women Statue in Manila
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  43. A Chinese group recruited a Philippines human rights organization in secretly working to have this statue erected without the knowledge of the foreign ministry, and with little detail given to the host city government. A historical commission seemed to have coordinated with the women’s group, but is now pointing fingers after having issued a permit faster than it usually does. One of the commission’s members said that the local human rights group Lila Pilipina and other organizations started to work on the comfort woman statue in 2014, and that these groups came to the commission in October of 2017, requesting the inscription to be made. Lila Pilipina is the same group that brought South Korean comfort women activism to the Philippines in the 1990s. Open Only to Chinese Media The names of five individuals and groups are inscribed on the back of the pedestal as donors. Almost all of them are Chinese. Also inscribed, in English, is “Statue of a Filipino Comfort Woman,” along with the name of the Filipino maker of the statue. We asked several people who stopped to look at the statue whether they had ever heard of comfort women before. Not a single person was able to say who the comfort women were. The Wai Ming Charitable Foundation Fund Company Limited, appearing last on the pedestal donor list, is a Hong Kong-based organization whose founder, Chung Wai Ming, is believed to have supported comfort women relief on the Chinese mainland as well as the demands for reparations from Japan. Chinese anti-Japan propaganda, which makes full use of the overseas Chinese network under the “comfort women” banner, was also undertaken in 2015 in Australia. However, the petition to erect a comfort woman statue in a public place was not recognized there on the grounds that it was outside the purview of the local city government to make decisions on such matters. - Foreign Ministry Didn’t Know: Chinese Hand Seen in Comfort Women Statue in Manila
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  44. Dutch government officially announced that “Dutch government regards the Comfort women system primarily as pros**tution.” 1994
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  45. Numerous wartime documents define comfort women as prostitutes. ⚫︎Contemporary U.S. Military Sources One primary source is Report No. 49, U.S. Office of War Information, dated October 1, 1944. This is an interrogation report of 20 Korean comfort women in Burma. This report clearly states: A “comfort woman” is nothing more than a pros**tute or professional camp follower. ⚫︎Allied Translator Records and Captured Japanese Documents Another primary source is found in the ATIS (Allied Translator/Interpreter Section) Research Report No. 120. It says, “Amenities of the Japanese Armed Forces,” dated November 15, 1945. Among them are the following: From a captured Japanese document, “Rules for Restaurants and Houses of Pros**tution,” dated February 1943: MANILA: “Persons receiving permission to open business [comfort station] will…submit…copy of personal histories of employees….” “Permission is necessary before anyone joins the establishment.” SHANGHAI SECTOR: “The pros**tutes will possess licenses….” “Unlicensed pros**tutes are strictly prohibited from plying their trade.” “The pros**tute and the operator will share equally the proceeds of the work done by the pros**tute.” “Tacloban Brothel Regulations,” undated: “Places called brothels in these regulations are special brothels operated with Filipino women (licensed pros**tutes).”
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  46. Numerous wartime documents define comfort women as prostitutes. ⚫︎Contemporary U.S. Military Sources One primary source is Report No. 49, U.S. Office of War Information, dated October 1, 1944. This is an interrogation report of 20 Korean comfort women in Burma. This report clearly states: A “comfort woman” is nothing more than a pros**tute or professional camp follower. ⚫︎Allied Translator Records and Captured Japanese Documents Another primary source is found in the ATIS (Allied Translator/Interpreter Section) Research Report No. 120. It says, “Amenities of the Japanese Armed Forces,” dated November 15, 1945. Among them are the following: From a captured Japanese document, “Rules for Restaurants and Houses of Pros**tution,” dated February 1943: MANILA: “Persons receiving permission to open business [comfort station] will…submit…copy of personal histories of employees….” “Permission is necessary before anyone joins the establishment.” SHANGHAI SECTOR: “The pros**tutes will possess licenses….” “Unlicensed pros**tutes are strictly prohibited from plying their trade.” “The pros**tute and the operator will share equally the proceeds of the work done by the pros**tute.” “Tacloban Brothel Regulations,” undated: “Places called brothels in these regulations are special brothels operated with Filipino women (licensed pros**tutes).”
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  47. Numerous wartime documents define comfort women as prostitutes. ⚫︎Contemporary U.S. Military Sources One primary source is Report No. 49, U.S. Office of War Information, dated October 1, 1944. This is an interrogation report of 20 Korean comfort women in Burma. This report clearly states: A “comfort woman” is nothing more than a pros**tute or professional camp follower. ⚫︎Allied Translator Records and Captured Japanese Documents Another primary source is found in the ATIS (Allied Translator/Interpreter Section) Research Report No. 120. It says, “Amenities of the Japanese Armed Forces,” dated November 15, 1945. Among them are the following: From a captured Japanese document, “Rules for Restaurants and Houses of Pros**tution,” dated February 1943: MANILA: “Persons receiving permission to open business [comfort station] will…submit…copy of personal histories of employees….” “Permission is necessary before anyone joins the establishment.” SHANGHAI SECTOR: “The pros**tutes will possess licenses….” “Unlicensed pros**tutes are strictly prohibited from plying their trade.” “The pros**tute and the operator will share equally the proceeds of the work done by the pros**tute.” “Tacloban Brothel Regulations,” undated: “Places called brothels in these regulations are special brothels operated with Filipino women (licensed pros**tutes).”
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