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The September-edition of the Shincho 45 magazine reports the interview of the eldest son of Yoshida Seiji.
In the interview, the eldest son says: 1) his father has never been to the Cheju Island; 2) his father wrote the forced rounding-up story using maps; 3) expressed his deep apology to the fellow Japanese for the embarrassment his father has caused; and, 4) if allowed, he wants to pull out all the comfort women memorials built around the world by using cranes. Yoshida Seiji is the author of the book titled gMy War crimes: Abduction of Koreansh published in 1983. In the book, Yoshida Seiji provided his experience of rounding-up local women by violence. Although he confessed that the story was a novel for entertainment in 1996, the only one offender-side story was much publicized by Asahi-Shimbun newspaper in early 1990s and used as the evidence of forced recruitment for 1996 UN Coomaraswamy Report. gThe Comfort Womenh (by George Hicks, 1995) used Yoshidafs story as historical fact. Asahi-Shimbun acknowledged that Yoshidafs the story was a fake and retracted all articles related to story in 2014. |
