Facts vs. Fantasy

Were they sex slaves or camp followers?

A Korean delusional image of rounding-up young women under violence Actual comfort women following advancing Japanese Army

Why did Koreans NOT mentiond on Comfort Women during the period of negotiation on 1965 Japan-S. Korea Treaty?

If girls were abducted when they were in their late teens or early 20s, their fathers must still be in their 40s. Where were their fathers or brothers, when their daughters or sisters were abducted on streets, or when the Japanese Army broke into their homes and took them away as so claimed by Koreans?

If 200,000 girls or women were abducted, there must be several times more of resistance reports, eyewitness accounts, reports of missing girls to police or government agencies or at least private diaries describing such experiences. Why there are none of such reports yet presented so far today? (Korea has not experienced aerial bombardment of allied forces during WWII. There should be no loss of such documents caused from the fire-raids.)

Why are there many newspaper articles reporting police crackdown of kidnappers still remain today, if the policemen forcibly mobilized young girls and/or women as so claimed by Koreans?  Raiding dens of kidnappers to release girls from confinement and forcibly taking them away contradict each other.

See “Newspaper Articles Published during Annexation Years”

Preceding the signing of 1965 Treaty, there were 14 years of negotiation period, including one year for preliminary preparation that started in 1951 (six years since the end of WWII). In 1951, their fathers and mothers must be in their 50s or 60s, which is not an age of forgetting a serious event of their daughters having been abducted, or eventually killed, as so claimed by Kelly Ahn. Why did the Korean government NOT mention a word about the Comfort Women during the 14 years of negotiation period? Just forgot?

Are you saying that Koreans just forgot about their 200,000 girls/women (allegedly) taken away by force and eventually killed?

The fact is that the people involved in the negotiation knew very well that Comfort Women were just paid prostitutes. They were recruited either by advertisement or through procurers, who were working as a broker/middle man between the parents and brothel operators. That is the exact reason why they did not bring the matter up to the negotiation table.

(Japan’s national archive of official records must have all the documents exchanged between the two governments regarding the treaty negotiation. They must be released to the public if necessary.)
 

Investigations conducted by Japan and the United States proved that there was nothing criminal about Comfort Women, and NO hard evidedence has ever been presented from the Korean government/civic groups tat corroborate their accusation.

1993 Japanese Gov. Investigation and 2007 IMG Report (by the US government) found no evidence of forced recruitment of comfort women. Both govenrment investigations proved that there was NO systematic criminal conduct perpetrated by the Imperial Japanese Forces on comfort women. The Korean Government has presented NO HARD EVIDENCES that corroborate their accusation. Comfort Women were nothing more than paid prostitutes as US Army Reports say, and the US Army men got their services too !!   

Despite those common sense knowledge and findings mentioned above, some people (such as US and UK media) still repeat the accusation of "200,000 women and girls forced sex slavery" mantra in public places in a malicious attempt to defame the nation and people of Japan, or just swallowing the lies fabricated by Korean activists.

No cross-examination of testimonies conducted, no refutation heard, and no presumption of innocence applied.

This is what you call a kangaroo court/WITCH TRIAL.



 

Kisaeng girls （妓生）were the major source to become comfort women serving for the Japanese Army, because wages for comfort women were higher than Kisaeng girls. Former comfort women Kim Hak-soon （金学順）and Kil Won-ok（吉元玉） said in their testimonies that they had been Kisaeng girls before becoming comfort women.

The following photo shows the Kisaeng girls contributing "comfort bags" to the Japanese Imperial Army soldiers in support for the war effort. (Source: Vol. No.279/August 1938 edition of the photo magazine “Chosen (Korea)” published from the Governor-General of Korea)

If the Japanese Imperial Army soldiers were rampaging through the Korean towns or villages for rounding-up of women and girls for "forced sex slavery," do you think those women had shown such support of war ?



 


 

Where were those Korean people, who took to the streets to celebrate the rapid advance of the Japanese Imperial Army in China waving Hinomaru flags shouting “Banzai Emperor”, while 200,000 of their women and girls were allegedly taken away from nearby towns and villages by the same Japanese Imperial Army?
(Source: January, 1941, “Photo-magazine Japan’s Great Leap”)



 

Korean Volunteers


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Above: Army training center outside Seoul for young Koreans who wish to become Imperial Army soldiers.

Left: Young Koreans marching in support of Japan’s war effort.


 

This newspaper article reports that when the volunteer military system was first promulgated in Korea in 1938, over 3,000 applicants rushed to the police stations, which acted as the induction/reception center, just in one week and after examinations and health check-ups, 1,900 applicants were qualified for enlistment. (April 12, 1938, Asahi-Shimbun Osaka, West Korea edition)

Where were those 3,000 applicants while their female compatriots were allegedly dragged away by the Japanese Imperial Force in which they wished to join, or forcefully taken away by the police to which they must have submitted their application documents?

Even a simpleton can understand that NO government can raise an army force from the place where you are rounding-up women and girls for forced prostitution.

Korean Volunteers were attractive career for young Korean males.
(Source: Asahi-graph July 7, 1943 edition)
The Enlistment Ceremony for Korean Volunteers to join Japanese Imperial Marines; The outbreak of the war caused the sharp rise in the number of applicants for Korean Volunteers
(Around April, 1944)


 

Since the “Special Volunteer Army Decree” was promulgated in 1938, a large number of Korean males applied for Korean Volunteers of the Japanese Imperial Army. As shown in the following table, the number of applicants increased year after year.

Year Accepted Applicants Ratio
1938 406 2,946 7.3
1939 613 12,348 20.1
1940 3,060 84,433 27.6
1941 3,208 144,743 45.1
1942 4,077 254,273 62.4
1943 6,300 303,394 48.2
Total 17,664 802,137

(Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs)

Conscription was applied to Korea from Sept. 1944. According to the diet meeting minutes dated Nov.14, 2002, the Imperial Japanese Army had at least 240,000 Korean soldiers and civil employees mobilized for war effort.

Should the story of rounding-up 200,000 women and girls by the Japanese Army for forced sex slavery is true, you would wonder why those Koreans males are joining the same Army.
 

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