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Last Update: June 20, 2016
Moguro Fukuzo

McGraw-Hill Textbook Hoaxes

Like Prime Minister Abe, the author of this webpage was greatly shocked when I first read the description of Herbert Ziegler on the Comfort Women contained in the McGraw-Hill textbook.

PM Abe said he was greatly shocked when he read the description of the McGraw-Hill Textbook.
Click the image to hear the Q&A at the Diet of Japan.

I wonder why some Americans never stop to disgrace Japan and the Japanese people by colluding with S. Korean anti-Japan defamation propagandists.
Apparently, this man Herbert Zeigler obtained his knowledge on the Comfort Women from Wikipedia or websites sponsored by the Korean Council for Drafted Women (North Korean conspiracy machine in South Korea) or VANK (South Korean Japan-bashing organization) and wrote the description, not based on the expert knowledge. He did not use even the least scrutiny required for a scholar to write on this sensitive issue.
Following is the description of the McGraw-Hill Textbook the author obtained from a magazine published in Japan. (The encircled numbers and underlines were put by Professor Hata of the Nippon University.)

Click the image to get the PDF version of the description↓

19 Japanese historians (represented by Professor Hata) made their rebuttal by publishing the booklet titled “Requesting Correction of Factual Errors in McGraw-Hill Textbook” (←Click to get the PDF file) on March 17, 2015.
However, I will do my own counterargument as follows:

1) “forcibly recruited, conscripted and dragooned as many as many as two thousand women”
Comfort Women were recruited with high pay. As comfort women could get higher pay than kisaeng girls, there were many kisaeng girls who had become comfort women. There were also many Korean parents who sold off their daughters to procurers (brokers who sell the girls to brothel operators) in return to the advance payment of 24 to 36 months worth of salary as a comfort woman. If the women could repay the family debt (the advance payment) in full, she could return home. Therefore, the comfort women system was the Indentured Prostitution.
If Korean girls and women were taken away, forcibly recruited, rounded-up, or dragooned, it must have been Korean local procurers and/or their underlings who had done so.
See the following recruiting ads carried on a major newspaper in Seoul in 1944.

Right
Place: 〇〇 Regiment Comfort Station
Age Limit: 18 or older but no older than 30
Day for Application: October 27, November 8
Counseling Meeting: November 8
Salary and Welfare: To be decided after interview
Number of Recruits Wanted: Dozens of them
Contact: Kou 2645 at Kyogi-cho 195 Korean Hotel (Mr. Kyo)

Left
Age limit: 17 or older but no older than 23
Place and Type of Work: Rear Regiment of 〇〇, Comfort Woman
Monthly Salary: 300 yen or more (Loan up to 3,000 yen available in advance)
Job Interview: Applicant is required to appear 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. for interview.
IMAI Employment Agency

First and foremost, they were recruited by those Korean procurers. Do not ignore the fact.
The exact number of comfort women who worked at comfort stations is not known. Professor Hata estimates the number at peak-time was 20,000, which comprises 8,000 Japanese women, 4,000 Korean women and 8,000 Chinese and others.

2)"as a gift from the emperor"
It’s an outrageous insult for our emperor. You cannot imagine what effect this remark has on the minds of the Japanese nationals.
3) "At the end of the war, soldiers massacred large numbers of comfort women to cover up the operation."
I have the same opinion with 19 Japanese historians on this part of the description. If the massacre of the comfort women actually occurred, such an incident should have been brought before the 1946 Tokyo Tribunal or BC class trials. There is no such record evidencing the incident. On what grounds do the writers assert such incident had taken place?
How can you tell such groundless lies to your children? The author has really begun to doubt the common sense of the Americans.

This is a serious purgery and/or disparagement. If you still insist this is a historical fact and true, give us the evidence.

GIVE US THE EVIDENCE!

June 1, 2015
MR. ZIEGLER:
IF YOU KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT AND CANNOT SUGGEST ANY EVIDENCE OF THE MASS MURDER OF COMFORT WOMEN BY THE JAPANESE ARMY, YOU ARE A LIAR.

As of June 20, 2016, one year has passed from the release of the warning of 19 Japanese scholars. During the time, Mr. Zeigler and McGraw-Hill Company made no response and still remain silent about the evidence that backs up their description.
Therefore, we determine Mr. Zeigler is a shameless liar and McGraw-Hill Company is an anti-Japan smear campaign propaganda machine.
They are making unsubstantiated allegations in their malicious intent to spread baseless lies to the world.

4) "The impetus behind the establishment of comfort houses for Japanese soldiers came from the horrors of Nanking, where the mass rape of Chinese women had taken place."
This statement is completely baseless. The Commander Matsui issued an order that any soldier who committed rape should be shot to death by Military Police. Solders’ testimonies say “Nanking citizens opened brothels a couple of days after the fall of the city. There should have been no one who risked his life due to frugality with money”

There was the Battle of Nanking. But there were no massacre of any kind in Nanking. Click the image above to find more on the FALSE ACCUSATIONS OF NANKING MASSACRE.
"False Accusations of Nanking Massacre"
http://www.howitzer.jp/nanking/index.html

Prof. Hata’s Most Recent Remarks (as of May16, 2015 on Sankei Newspaper)

I am representing 19 Japanese historians who made the request of corrections to McGraw-Hill, and I have received NO answer yet. We sent to them the errata. It appears to me that they are going to ignore our request and keep errors as simple as 1+1=3 put on the textbook. I want to hear the opinions of conscientious American historians how they feel about it.
Click the image to get the request of corrections made by the 19 Japanese historians.

KENT CHANNEL

←Click the image to listen to what this lawyer Kent Gilbert has to say to Americans.

LINKS

Perspectives on History - American History Association
On Comfort Women Issue Jason Morgan (Historian, USA) - Japan Institute of National Fundamentals
Open Letter in Support of Historians in Japan - The Asia-Pacific Journal:Japan Focus
English Translation of Comfort Women Articles by Scholars

Comments from the Celebrities
Douglas McArthur :US five-star general who led the United Nations Command during the Korean War
"Another holocaust? I’ve never heard of it. Why didn’t Koreans tell it to me? We must redo the Tokyo Tribunal all over again"

Marilyn Monroe :an American actress and one of the biggest sex symbols of the 20th century
"Japs have balls. Koreans don’t." (She is angry about Korean men who chose to be bystanders while their women were being dragged away. She openly calls them sissy weakling cowards.)

George S. Patton :the commamder of the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean and European Theathers of the WWII.
"Japs have balls. We are nuts." (He faced many rape cases committed by American soldiers against French girls after the D-day Landing and now begins to consider mass-murdering might have been a good solution to cover-up the operation.)

Abraham Lincoln :the 16th President of the United States
"The government of the comfort women, by the comfort women, for the comfort women shall perish from the earth."

Geronimo :the most prominent Indian Chief
"Honest Injun, dishonest Koreans."

**Comments from the Celebrities**
	Douglas McArthur :US five-star general who led the United Nations Command during the Korean War "Another holocaust? I’ve never heard of it. Why didn’t Koreans tell it to me? We must redo the Tokyo Tribunal all over again"
	Marilyn Monroe :an American actress and one of the biggest sex symbols of the 20th century "Japs have balls. Koreans don’t." (She is angry about Korean men who chose to be bystanders while their women were being dragged away. She openly calls them sissy weakling cowards.)
	George S. Patton :the commamder of the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean and European Theathers of the WWII. "Japs have balls. We are nuts." (He faced many rape cases committed by American soldiers against French girls after the D-day Landing and now begins to consider mass-murdering might have been a good solution to cover-up the operation.)
	Abraham Lincoln :the 16th President of the United States "The government of the comfort women, by the comfort women, for the comfort women shall perish from the earth."
	Geronimo :the most prominent Indian Chief "Honest Injun, dishonest Koreans."

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