Please stick to the topic. I am an American fluent in Japanese, but I would like your answers in English only please. Perhaps it would become good practice for you. よろしくお願いいたします
”Hail to the speaker and him who listens! May whoever learn those words prosper because of them! Hail to those who listen!" - Havamal こいつの日本語レベルは幼稚園児なみだが、本人にはその自覚がないところが、 キ モ イ !
Don't know why tons of koreans are pleased to discard their proud korean nationality and flock to other countries, but when it comes to the relation with Japan...
Wondering what if korean immigrants would set up the similar organization like mindan or pro-north chosen soren claiming they abide by north/south korean constitution and laws in the US...
We should sever diplomatic relations with both of them. Korean governments have done anti-japanese education for many years so Korean people have intense anti-japanese sentiment. I often have ill feeling against Korean's behavior while watching them burn the national flag of Jaoan on TV. you know they are so disgusting.I hate them.
I feel as an American that I am in the same position. South Korea would rather ally with China or North Korea, even though they were saved from overbearing communist rule by America. I think Japan should rearm, and at least show some definite presence in Asia.
I think that one of the guests on the old "Nihonjin Kore ha Hendayo" Tv show was right by saying to the Korean and Chinese members, "Yes, Japan did something wrong in WWII, but when are you going to forgive Japan." Of course, the Koreans and Chinese had no answer. Nationalistic education does that to people.
It does seem like they take Japanese courtesy for graditude. It's sad that the older generation, the one that remembers WWII is much more friendly to Japan and America, while the more leftist youth of Korea are much more nationalistic to the point of fascism.
It really does resemble Nazi Germany and is quite sickening (especially the anti-Japan videos on youtube). Koreans need to realize that Japan is part of the brotherhood of Asia and fighting Japan will just result in the decline of Asia.
apparently you don't know what you talking agout Japan did ellya really atrocious things to Korean people reasuolting wound can not be healed easily At least japan should be always showing how sorry they are
Even though Japan extends its friendship to Korea, Korea still remains hostile.
Look...even Israel has friendly relations with Germany. Japan never killed 8 million Koreans - Germany killed 8 million Jews. Moreover, if what you say is so, I want Italians to be eternally sorry for invading my Irish ancestors 2,000 years ago!
that's a stupid analogy and you know it. what's important is Japan have never really show they are sorry, never really sincerely apologized right now their leaders go to Yasukuni shrine, the war shrine of Japan, as officials of Japan, which shows their real attitude. they are hopelessly unrepentant
No it isn't, Germany killed 8 million Israelites. How many Koreans did Japan kill? And yet the horrible travesty of war (remember that Japan probably killed more Americans than Koreans) is forgotten because there is no more animosity or even anxiety toward the Japanese from other countries. Korea and China continue to use propaganda to influence their people against Japan, so that those people forget the problems of their own country and are filled with hate.
You must admit that sooner or later, SOMEONE is going to have to forgive and forget. It is simply unproductive to continually blame a race for all your world's problems. Furthermore, the fact that the Korean educational system actually teaches children to hate Japanese far outways anything to do with Yasukuni. Korea is the onw in the wrong. Imagine if American schools taught their children to hate Germans. Its foolish and stupid.
what you saying is so convinient for any agressor or criminnal just forgive or forget and move on?? that's not how it should be. there should be something in between
The militaristic government of Japan has been destroyed. So where is the agressor? Where is the criminal? He is dead. Forgive and forget. There are millions of Japanese willing to learn about Korean culture with open arms.
actually he isn't dead he has survived among Japanese people in Germany today Nazism is a crime. in Germany today and many other European states inciting or supporting Nazism is a crime he is dead in germany not in japan.
I wonder what those war criminals (including Hideki Tojo) has done to Korean people. As far as "A-class war criminals", they have done nothing to Korea. They have been accused of what they did to China or USA or any other country belonged to "the Allies", not Korea. So I can't understand why Koreans against Yasukuni-Shrine. I can understand China's logic but not Korea's.
Hey,Korea ! You still don't pay aid money of Smatra earthquake. Don't make a toy of the poor people who are suffering from disaster. although you knew you didn't have enough money to pay it, you announced that you would transfer 50 million dollars to the disaster site, you actually payed about 3 million dollars. I've heard how come you did such a inhuman thing. you just did it because of the feelings of competition agaisnt Japan. before you,Japan announced that we would transfer 500 million dollars to the site and actually payed all the money. you sucks ! not human !! For this reason international community can't believe you. Shame on you !!
Is this true? I never heard this and I would like a link to it. I can speak and read Japanese, so a Japanese link is fine as well. If this is true, then Korea looks even worse then their Cutey Honey knock-offs.
The Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos have been in the U.S. in large numbers much longer than the Koreans. Why is it we all got along just fine before the Koreans arrived in large numbers? Since the Koreans have arrived in the U.S., we have seen riots, shootings, boycotts and an all around rise in tension and apathy between Asians (Koreans)Blacks and Hispanics. What is the prblem? I think a big part of the problem is the Korean tradition. If Confucius could see what Koreans have done to his teachings, he would laugh. No other Asian culture takes Confucius's teachings and twist it to the point of being ridiculous. Koreans live their daily lives constantly wondering if that person or this person did not give proper respect. When Koreans argue among themselves, the role of tradition always plays a big part. My advice is to live your life more like other Asians,where tradition is not the rule but common sense and "Whatever" is the norm. Now that I've totally pissed off every Korean reading this, my advice to Korean store owners is a Confucius proverb. "One who cannot smile, should never open a shop".
Japan is jealous of Korea, because they got rid of complex kanji characters over 500 years ago. Japan will never give it up, though; it's too important in making Japan look 'special' and 'different from everyone else'. Then again, hiragana got simplified in 1900....
That's enough of your jokes ! you don't have any kinds of things we are jealous of. we always look down on you from the ancient times to for eternity. you stinky Koreans, get out of here !!
In what ways does Japan think it's different than Korea? I'm not talking about maps or land or anything like that, but how the people and culture are different.
I ask this as an honest question, not in order to make people mad.
>>60 i think it's only a matter of ethnic and history. i think if you learn or read books about history of korea and japan, your question will be solved. the japanese and koreans have different history, so many people tend to think that other countries' people that have different history are ailiens. to be sure, i think korea and japan do not look so different. i think just catfighting led to this present rivalry between korea and japan. i hope oen day koreans and japanese will hook up and somebody will correct my awkward expressions in this post.
I've read a book titled "manga kenkanryu" recently. and I thought what a disgusting country Korea is ! The better I know about Krea ,the more I hate them.
It sounds like most of what Manga Kenkanryu is about is the same old "Culture of Amnesia" that's been around for years, and that Korea is the most convenient victim for people to blame. This sounds weird to me, but it could be they're similar enough to fight like brother and sister.
I've heard lots of shouting about how Japan is so different from all other countries in the world, but almost never /how/ it's different.
The answer has three type as following: 1 A part of Japanese hates Korea. This people has bad impression for Korea. For instence, conserning with politics, bad actions of Korean-in-Japan, Korean attitudes against Japanese.
2 Another part of Japanese likes Korea. For example, affection from Korean program of Japanese medias, 韓流ブーム.
3 the other part of Japanese is not intersting in Korea.
Korean attitudes against Japanese: Korean has the offensive factor. For example, a part of Korean fired Japanese national flag. this action indicates some Korean does not have compliment. We Japanese don't fire their flag as well.
韓流ブーム began cinemas and dramas made in Korea broadcast in Japan. After 2002, many Korean star introduces in Japan. These phenomenon are Japanese company that strongly affects to massmedias.
>>60 Japanese and Korean is different country. In Asia, each countries have totally different language and culture. We have almost same face and skin color, but these differences are bigger than between Black and White in the USA. I think you knew what I said, but many Europian think all Asians are basicaly same origin.
Whatever it is... Hey >>1 Gaijin san! You shouldn't make independent thread for your single question. And, this kinds of prpbrems are none of your business.
Korean people say,“Korean women were taken away to brothels by Japanese people. There is the evidence. (1)” park6.wakwak.com/~photo/image/ianfu01.jpg But it’s not true because they are mere advertisements saying “Wanted comfort women. Salary of 300yen a month, and you can borrow 3000yen.” By the way let's think about the value of yen in 1944. www8.plala.or.jp/shinozaki/s19-1944.pdf A policeman’s salary was around 45 yen a month then. A policeman’s salary is around 200,000 yen a month today. www.keishicho.metro.tokyo.jp/saiyou/keisatsu/keisatu.htm 200000÷45=about4444 In short the rate of price increase is 4444 times. 300yen×4444=1333200yen… It’s amazing! A comfort woman’s salary was 1330,000yen in current value. And she was allowed to borrow 13,300,000yen. Assuming 1yen=10won, “Salary of 13,300,000won! You can borrow 133,000,000won!” Whoever read this knows that they wanted to be hookers. Can this be expressed as “TAKEN AWAY” ? (1) Reference “Korean Government HP”(It has already been deleted) www.hermuseum.go.kr/eng/exp/Experience01_2.asp
《 ABSOLUTE LAWS 》 THE FIRST LAW In the range from an individual to a company and even a nation, who ally with Koreans will lose for certain. THE SECOND LAW Regarding THE FIRST LAW, when Koreans go off by themselves, only Koreans will lose. THE THIRD LAW Regarding THE FIRST LAW, who come to be hated by Koreans should be able to avoid the law, where the rate of possibility you can avoid it, corresponds with the level how you are hated. THE FORTH LAW Regarding THE FIRST LAW, who once break off with Koreans should be able to defeat the law. THE FIFTH LAW Regarding THE FIRST LAW, it will not be invoked on those who do business with the unilateral approach against Koreans. THE SIXTH LAW Regarding THE THIRD and THE FORTH LAW, who once break off with Koreans should be able to expect rapid recovery or uptrend in all aspects including the fortune and the achievement and so on.
《 GENERAL LAWS 》 THE FIRST LAW Everything invented or popular in Japan will be insisted as Korean or invented by Korean in some ten years or even some hundred years. THE SECOND LAW Those who are popular or talented in Japan are for certain insisted as Korean residents in Japan. However if Koreans hate one of them, the person should be able to avoid this law for sure. THE THIRD LAW The more Korea is featured in a Japanese TV program, the more people stop watching it. In other words how often Korea is on TV is in inverse proportion to popularity of a TV program.
THE FORTH LAW Those who call themselves Japanese domestically or overseas though nobody asks their nationalities, are not likly real Japanese. THE FIFTH LAW All unfavorable events for Korea are shifted blame onto other countries. THE SIXTH LAW A Korean president: policymaker, when end of the term is close, is likely to be involved in a political disorder and end up in misery. THE SEVENTH LAW A Japanese in power who makes contact with Korea will be ruined within two generations. THE EIGHTH LAW Power of those laws tends to be strengthened drastically in every sixty years. THE NINTH LAW Those laws are invoked even on Koreans if they have the Japanese mind. THE TENTH LAW Those laws never be invoked even on Japanese if they have the Korean mind. THE ELEVENTH LAW Those who get deeply involved to that country or get symbolic as being for sort of a poster child and so on, themselves become the law invokers and invoke them directly or indirectly on people who contact with them. As those kind of invokers come for us regardless of our wills, we are unable to avoid them in most cases. THE TWELFTH LAW UN and ICJ never be affected and ruled by those laws. THE THIRTEENTH LAW Japanese prime minister, members of the ruling coalition and their families are not ruled by those laws even if they lose themselves in Korea.
Rain for blaming, wind for cursing Even snow and summer heat for envying With strong square chin, desire is neverending Never shutting up, loudly always shouting Four bowls of sorghum, a lot of kimchi, a bit of gochujang a day Money minded on everything around trying not to pay Feeling understanding with halfway experience, in a second memory disappears In that peninsula, by the bare mountain, from small thatched shack it appears Finding out Takeshima in east sea, it's there to thrust a flag acting big ugly To master in west, it's there to pay respects willingly To dying Viet Cong in south, it's there with a gun to tell not to be scared and kill them with smiling face To brother in north with drought and famine, it's there with modesty to pass them Japanese rice Ordering apology for drought and reparation for summer cold All over the world, skunk zombie is what it's called Got no praise ever Got no respect ever Just like that, I've already been ever
◇Free Diversified Aspects Masayuki Tkayama Professor, Teikyo Uiversity ▼Negligence Mr.Kun-Tsan Tsai, author of 'Taiwanese and Japanese spirit', was an army special volunteer. He was in the deep mountain in Kyoto at the end of the World War II. He wrote the chaos from the end of the war to the end of the year when he returned to Taiwan. They became the "victory nation" overnight and were offered superfluity of food. He made grilled rice balls for starved children. He sometimes went "all the way to Kyoto station" to hand them out to children. "At one time he saw the people handing out the naval thermal vests to children. Then he talked to them and found they were Taiwanese volunteer as he was." However Koreans, who had been in the force he had belonged, "in a group broke into and robbed food and clothe warehouses." "They were domineering to hit dispirited Japanese while saying they were the victory nation." Japanese prepared special trains for the victory nation. An entire vehicle was provided for even a few passengers. They, the victory nation, called a stationmaster or a person in charge when they found a blunder by Japanese, then assaulted them by beating and kicking. Sadanori Shimoyama, a director of the traveler bureau, was one of those were gang bashed by them and he was seriously injured to the testicle explosion. The repatriation program for this victory nation was done on the order of GHQ. F.Roosevelt who had died four months before the end of the war left the will saying "confine all Japanese in four islands and destroy them". As they wanted to destroy only Japanese, unrelated people as Koreans etc. had to be banished. At this time all Koreans who had come to Japan by so called "requisition" were supposed to return to there country. However in fact all of them did not return.
Hogyu Lim wrote how they were in those days in 'The third country poeple's commercial code'. "The third country people is a word that indicates Koreans in Japan during prewar and postwar days. Most of them dreamed the success in Japan and came across the sea during the period of confusion before and after the World War II." Their occupations were "from what they were able to get cash such as salvage, pachinko or so called Turkish bath etc." Another important cash business was a crime syndicate. The story of N.Zapetti who ruled the dark world of postwar days started selling chewing gums is described in 'Tokyo under world'. In this story, Japanese rejected chewing gums which were not their preference. He tied up with a crime syndicate and made them threaten storekeepers to sell gums. Therefore the chewing gum culture was established in Japan. This crime syndicate was Toseikai that grew up rapidly after the war and its all members were Koreans. There are about 500,000 Korean residents now in Japan. 1650 among them are in prison. This number follows to that of Chinese in prison which is 2000 among total 250,000 people. The rate of Koreans receiving public assistance is 48 per 1000 people. Compared with the rate of Japanese that is 12 per 1000 people, it's as much as four times higher. They came to Japan with success dreams but are now nothing but a trouble. To deal with the increasing crimes by foreigners, the Ministry of Justice issues a "residence card" in which a person's name and address etc. are written in an IC. However, according to the report from Asahi Shimbun, "Koreans are not included" in those "foreigners". I receive an impression as "Ploughing the field and forgetting the seeds" from that. Korean residents in Japan are given shameless preferential treatments that are not given to any other foreigners.
For instance, if foreigners except Koreans are arrested for prostitutions, drugs or crimes that lead to one or more years of penal servitude, they will be immediately exiled. But a Korean resident is an exception. Only they are not be exiled as long as they have not commited crimes that lead to the seven or more years of penal servitude as homicide. They explain the reason for this is their history. In plain words, Japan owes them because they are descendants of kidnapped people. Thus they take this preferential treatment for granted. However, the kidnap by army is a fabrication made up by Kyungsik Park. They are the descendants of people who came to Japan before and after the war, and squatted as Hogyu Lim described. There is no reason that they are distinguished from other foreigners and receive preferential treatment at all. But sensible Japanese did not say anything small-minded. I compromise only Koreans who received the penalty of seven or more years of penal servitude must be exiled. Then how many Koreans have been exiled since the age Toseikai was active behind the scenes ? We have often seen, in newspapers, Korean names following "John Doe whose real name is". Expecting large number of criminals have been exiled, I asked the Ministry of Justice of the exact number. However the answer was, "The number of exiled Koreans since soon after the war until now is zero because the minister has never stamped for approval." Though it's well known that Seiken Sugiura refused the signature for execution, I didn't know any Justice Ministers had not banished Korean felons. Isn't this the bigger security concern in Japan than to refuse an execution ?
An online economic newspaper e-today reported on the 25th that single South Korean men performed 'Naked body check' on women while they chose their brides in Vietnam and the men's behaviors were taken up as a big issue in the locale. According to an English version of a local newspaper "Young people" issued on that day, some of South Korean men who had arrived at Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam met 66 young Vietnamese women with a view to marriage in the middle of this month. These women were introduced to men by a local marriage broker. At this time South Korean men surprisingly performed so called roguish 'Naked body check' on Vietnamese women. Though there were the cases local unlawful marriage brokers received the high referral fee and set up "Group meeting for marriage" for single men from oversea and troubles were caused, this is the first time the disgraceful behavior like this 'Naked body check' was discovered. The Vietnamese police reportedly arrested two South Koreans on the site in relation to the case. As such a case was reported through media, local people are violently repulsing it and the newspapers wrote that depending on circumstances even the damage on the national image would be concerned. Earlier at the beginning of this month, South Korean men were arrested in Ho Chi Minh City while choosing brides out of 118 Vietnamese women at an illegal marriage meeting, and were sentenced to a fine. However there are still shameless people committing such a crime as usual. Hankook Ilbo
Juche Idea rampant in Japan Teachers' Union The Juche Idea (also Juche Sasang or Chuch'e; pronounced /t?ut??e/ in Korean, approximately "joo-cheh") is the official state ideology of North Korea and the political system based on it. Kim Jong-il has explained that the doctrine is a component part of Kimilsungism, after its founder Kim Il-sung. The core principle of the Juche ideology since the 1970s has been that "man is the master of everything and decides everything". The official biography Kim Il Sung by Baik Bong had previously described this as saying that the masters of the North Korean revolution are the Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean people, who must remake themselves under the leadership of the WPK. Juche literally means "main body" or "subject"; it has also been translated in North Korean sources as "independent stand" and the "spirit of self-reliance".
What the heck ! Again Korean dog eaters tried to sneak in. It's hard to guess why they always try that despite the hatered against the Japanese !
Mass smuggling of illegal immigrants: 11 Koreans on a fishing boat at the fishing port, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka City
At about 3:17AM on 28th, a sixty year old man who was near saw suspicious people who landed from the fishing boat at Nishinoura fishing port in Nishiura, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka City and called 110. Fukuoka prefectural police searched around there, discovered and detained eleven people: five men and six women, who are possibly South Koreans and a Japanese man who was a driver to let them flee. These eight men and women including a Japanese man were arrested on the suspicion of violating the Immigration Control Law. The police are investigating these people as the smuggling of illegal immigrants. These eleven people are in their twenties to fifties according to the west station of the Fukuoka prefectural police. Six of them were caught in to the minivan on the road in Yokohama in the same district. The Japanese man who was in the car is suspected to be there to pick up other people. Remained five people were discovered while having lurked around the fishing port. All of them are lightly attired. Their passports of South Korea were confirmed not to be counterfeit and some of them reportedly have the note of South Korea. At Nishinoura fishing port, as some ten people who seemed to be the stowaways were witnessed to land on early morning of 18th, and the police doubts the series of cases as possible continuous stowing away and investigating the background of the case. 【 Takeshi Kinoshita 】 Mainichi news 14:00 04/28/2007
"The truth of the comfort women from my standpoint" by Hiroo Onoda "Seiron - just argument" January issue
The issues over primeminister's visits to Yasukuni Shrine and the comfort women are discussed in many places but they are nothing but the unfounded accusations by the other countries. I thought I didn't need to say much about these issues as well about as the Nanjing Massacre, but having been fed up with follies of absurd and insulting remarks seen until even now, I have to say. Sixty years have passed since the Greater East Asia War and now that the population of people who went to war is decreasing, I decided to write down my testimony to prove the "comfort women system" was obviously the "commercial prostitution". The biggest problems that obstructed the security means and the operations to win people's minds for overseas stationing troops were rape, robbery and arson. It's widely known that each country took measures against those problems. There were the "comfort women" certainly in battle fields during the war. But it was natural as the public prostitution system was legal at that time. Though not only officers and soldiers who went to open battles but everyone else also knew the phrase "army nurse" generally, no one either heard or said of the phrase "comfort woman". It's obvious that the "comfort woman" is a recent coinage to soil Japan's reputation.
#2 They called those prostitutes "Zhongguo P" and "Chosun P" at the war front of China, though they might be the dirty words. As nobody would buy a prostitute without getting embarrassed or in public, very few people have come out in public with details of what they had heard and seen by themselves about the "wartime brothels" and the "comfort women". But to witnesses who know them very well, some people would say, "Why do you know about it so well ?" while ridiculing those witnesses. You may want to ask me why I can do this, but as my position fortunately allowed me to observe the facts from outside the army, I can boldly come out with them to clear up misunderstandings in the world.
◆ The tour of the "wartime brothel" at Hankou I went to Hankou: current Wuhan, near the middle portion of the Yangtze River as a memeber of a trade firm in April when I was seventeen and lived in the place where the Japanese army had occupied for only five months and the smell of so to speak gun smoke still remained. At that time, Hankou city was divided into the refugee area, the China town, the Japan China town, the French settlement, the Japanese settlement, the former German settlement, the former Russian settlement and the former British settlement. The security was different in each area depending on circumstance. In the Japan China town, Japanese and Chinese lived together and a Chinese carried an "identification" as a Chinese in the China town did. A Chinese who didn't have an identification was made to live in the refugee area due to security reasons.
#3 Even a Japanese soldier wasn't allowed to enter the refugee area and we Japanese residents weren't either unless we had registered ourselves to get permissions. It was such a dangerous area. As I was a trading merchant, I walked around the city except the refugee area. One day a soldier in a dirty army uniform asked me where the brothel was, but I didn't understand it for a little while and bewildered. Then having recalled the place where the signboard with the big black letters of "Hankou special recreation facility" on it hanged on the wall, and a sentry and a soldier wearing an armband of the "military police" stood in front of it, I told him all I remembered. It was in the Japan China town where the movie house had been built as well. I thought from his uniform that he was certainly a soldier who had just come back from a campaign, as a soldier guarding the town didn't wear such a dirty uniform. I had made a hasty conclusion that soldiers had been able to have rice cakes, steamed breads, noodles etc. for free in the recreation facilities because I had thought a soldier who had come back from a campaign would need some comfort and thus the "special recreation facilities" had made sense, but they actually were the brothels. One of my acquaintances was allowed to go in and out the "recreation facility" as his trade firm imported the tatami mats as well as convenience goods and delivered there the tatami mats with condoms and other goods. One day when he suggested me go there with him, I agreed with him immediately and joined the tour as an ordinary Japanese wasn't able to step inside that place.
#4 We talked to a military police about our purpose of money collecting and finished our work quickly. As it was already dark outside, many prostitutes without customers came and tried to join our talk with the brothel manager, but he banished them. There were Japanese, Chosun and Chinese women; though Chosun is regarded as a discriminatory term and not used now, during Japan's annexation of Korean peninsula if we said "Japanese and Chosun" or something, they would protest us fiercely as they were also Japanese. They flocked around and seduced us with eagerness for business as a military police didn't investigate in their rooms without any exceptional reason. A prostitution fee was classified as first, second and third depending on where she was from. The business hours were during only daylight for soldiers as their curfew was the sunset, were longer for noncommissioned officers as their curfew was later and were all night for commissioned officers. The higher the military class was, the more charge they had to pay and women earned in the same time period. I had heard the stories of Korean women who had said, "I thought you were a noncommissioned officer but are you a soldier ?" and "Make up your mind and come inside right now. I will discount the fee in the room.", that I can't laugh at but feel as touching efforts. A certain Japanese prostitute said, "It's not easy to bail out of the prostitution in Japan, but here I can quit within a half year to a year.". And one of them boasted, "I had 27 customers a day.".
#5 ◆The "sex slave" nowhere around Asia Here let me introduce a brothel manager I made friends with. He said the truth, "Though Japanese women don't seem much different in physical strength from the other nations, they tend to forget the business and work so hard until they get sick. I think it's because they don't have the verbal barrier and they can understand soldiers well. I have to send back sick women and it undermines the profits. The best way is to hire only Japanese for soldiers though.". As there was a demimonde in the town I had grown up, I had often seen geisha girls and bar girls. I had been able to distinguish them, they had been called professionals at that time, from ordinary women by their appearances. Thus I was able to identify prostitutes also in Hankou. Among others Koreans' appearances were particular. They were usually out in a small group, not dressed in the ethnic costumes but in the western two piece outfits they weren't acustomed with, which made them look awkward. And the ways they walked were also particular. Thus it was easy for me to identify them. They looked so cheery and happy. I didn't feel any sad atmosphere among them from their everyday lives as current hot issue, the "sex slave". It certainly had long been said that "A loan shark manager and a pimp can't die on the tatami mats.". The human traffic had been prohibited since the Meiji era and it had changed the form to the prostitution to repay the "advance on salary", but actually nothing had changed for a prostitute in that virtually "she had been sold". I quoted a prostitute's words "bailing out of the prostitution" above.
#6 It means a prostitute who finished repaying the advance on salary was able to disengage herself. But I had often heard that some prostitution agents deceived women by vicious and fraudulent ways. It was really pitiful for deceived women but I also heard the following story. There was an arch woman who deceived soldiers and officers to get extra money. She tearfully said to soldiers, "I was deceived by the advertisement of "army nurse" and made to be a prostitute though I'm a girls high school graduate.". And it's the fact that there were innocent soldiers who believed her story. At the same time, this is a kind of comedy that I can't laugh at and it was caused as they were able to communicate in Japanese under the rule by Japan. Meanwhile, how much did the "brothel" earn ? This is an assured evidence that proves the "comfort women system" was the "commercial prostitution". Having worked in the army clothing factory that was directly related to the army headquarters in Hankou, my second eldest brother told me about the following statistics on the "brothel". At that time, there were about 330 thousand soldiers stationing around Hankou. He investigated all soldiers in the journal book for a certain reason. One third of their expenses were for meals, another one third for postal savings, and rest one third for "brothel". The soldiers weren't very interested in savings as their salaries were low. But as their bosses taught them to save money as the discipline, they had to do it actually and reluctantly. I also saved money while putting up with hunger when I stayed in Nanchang, Jiangxi Sheng as a newly recruited soldier. Not every soldier was sopposed to divide his salary equally among three and spend the one third of them. But it's said that the three biggest
#7 human lusts are for food, sleep and sex. If the phrase, postal savings, is replaced to a word, sleep, in the statistics above, the statistics are exactly same as the human lusts. For your information, an average of soldier's salary a month at that time was about 13 yen, thus the one third of it is about 4 yen. Then total amount is 4 yen multiplied by 330 thousand people, that is 1.32 million yen. As it's said the price of a battleplane such as the "zero fighter" was 30 thousand yen, surprisingly 1.32 million yen is equivalent to 44 battleplanes. As a corporate employee's starting salary wasn't more than 40 yen, no wonder the army accounting division was surprised. That's all I had seen and heard from outside the army for three and half years as a trading merchant, about what the "brothel" and the "comfort women" were actually. After I had left Hankou in the summer of 1942, an adjutant of the army logistics group in Hankou: the organization that stayed behind the operations group to transport, supply and repair vehicles and army supplies, and to keep a line of communication etc., who was an officer and observed the "brothel" and others wrote "Hankou logistics". I checked it against what I had heard about the brothel above, and found very few differences in place names and locations. But the descriptions of the "brothel" were same as above and more in detail about the inside information. According to this record, anyone can't deny the fact that the "comfort women" were the "commercial prostitutes". Who still denies it and insists on the "sex slave" forced by the army, is too ignorant or stupid enough to be deceived. Otherwise that person may be as the one who is asked, "Did they give you some money ?", jokingly by a person in Kansai area, but that's totally stupid.
#8 ◆The purpose of the people who made up and fuss about the issue. Now I disprove the wild view about military's involvement. I joined the army and was on an active duty when I was twenty years old. I immediately joined the troops in Nanchang, Jiangxi Sheng. Having finished the new soldier training, I joined an operation, then I had the officer candidate training and again joined an operation. Having been so busy that I hadn't been able to go out even once until I entered the preparatory military academy in Kurume, I had had no chance to pass through a "brothel" gate. However senior soldiers were able to go out during the new soldier training. One day I asked a chief petty officer of four year service, who gave me a souvenir whenever he went out, "Are you going out, sir ?", he smiled and said, "Yeah, as I have much money, I'm going to Chosun Bank to deposit it.". Understanding that jargon, everyone around us only chuckled. There was the divisional headquarters in Nanchang. There were Japanese, Koreans and Chinese prostitutes in the "brothel" and soldiers would be able to choose a woman depending on their financial conditions. I had the officer candidate training at the regiment headquarters in a countryside that was more than 18.5 miles away from Nanchang. The "brothel" was on the corner, surrounded by wire, in the defensive lines of the regiment headquarters. At the end of the training, I was ordered to guard the headquarters with other officer candidates. Of course it was the round-the- clock guard. Being in charge of the barracks and didn't have to be on sentry, I frequently went on patrol at the head of the sentries. The "brothel" was included in the patrol areas. The sentries on the war front were always ready
#9 for the battle, and even the vigils in the barracks as well. They wore helmets, loaded their guns and of course fixed bayonets at night. We patroled not only outside the "brothel" but inside with that appearance to check up number of customers in the record a responsible person submitted, to keep watch for defaulters and sneak attacks by guerrillas. Needless to say, soldiers playing there were unarmed, that meant they were certainly more vulnerable and careless. The army troops had good reason to protect those soldiers and officers. And another problem was the venereal disease protection. No wonder there was neither a doctor nor a hospital in such countryside. We had no choice but to leave medical checkups to army doctors and medics for the venereal disease protection. A "brothel" manager and women were Chinese and prostitutes were legal at that time in Japan. They also needed foods and livingwares as soldiers did. The appropriate means of transport were necessary due to the large population of women. Here again we had no choice but to leave it to the army as we were in the middle of nowhere. No wonder when the army moved. Being able to speak a language spoken in Hubei Sheng, I talked with a brothel manager and heard a lot about how the women had lived. I remember myself even now being inelegance, patroling through the central corridor with rooms on its both sides. There certainly was such a scenery that would never be even drawn as a cartoon. I think the situation was same in any troops.
#10 All of those things happened sixty years ago. The time has changed and we live in peace unlike those days, the war time. The interpretation of the prostitute: the comfort woman here, has obviously changed also. Despite these changes, there are people who take advantage of incomplete evidences, take up mere prostitution as a big issue lately and fuss about it. What's the purpose of these people ? One thing I can say is, as evidences are incomplete, they are trying to get something by fussing about it. This is the last I want to say as an ex-soldier who risked a life in battle fields and experienced hardships under the hail of bullets. No one can deny this. Who protects troops in a battle field ? As all around them are enemies or hostile inhabitants, they should never omit precautions. The story changes if there was something more reliable than individual, but they have no way but to protect themselves. The army wasn't involved with the "brothels" but they simpley protected themselves no more and no less. A proverb, "A tree with too many fruits will die down soon.", is explained as the "providential mechanism of species preservation". It's said that this "natural providence" also affects soldiers with uncertain future in savage battle fields. Is it possible to ask them to act as a model of all virtues or an enlightened monk ? The fact has been proved by the fact they spent one third of their low salaries for the "brothel". They didn't have more money than they were able to spend.
#11 "Honorable soldiers", their hometown people respected them and had seen them off while waving flags, were still young. Meanwhile there was certainly the society where poor and unfortunate women had to sell their bodies to live. Whether they sell what sell or they buy what are sold, as long as humans live on earth, no one can exterminate this business and it will continue existing forever. It's because primitive nature of human forces them to stay alive. There weren't so called "comfort women" but were only "women selling their bodies and pimps controlling them" in battle fields. Those women and pimps simply engaged in the high-margin business, taking unfair advantage of the army's weakness. Made a fuss about, the Imperial Army and the ex-soldiers who paid large fees must be the real victims instead.
■Song Ji-yeol : Korean, Serial rapist and robber, Tokyo He raped 19 women including housewives living around the Mejiro street. His crimes were so vicious as to stay at victims' rooms till next morning or threaten victims to keep their mouths shut, that widly reported on TV as the Mejiro street serial rape and robbery. He was arrested on Aug.21st 98. ■Ko Got-haeng : Korean resident, Serial rapist, Kanagawa In Sagamihara city, Apr.04, he dragged a highschool girl in his car and raped her. In Sagamihara city, Aug. same year, he threatened a highschool girl, forced her to get in his car and raped her in the mountains in Yamanashi prf. He was arrested on Aug.26th 05. ■Kim Yun-sik : Korean, Serial rapist, Osaka He came over to Japan in Sep.98 for getaway from Korea just before wanted for a rape case. In Osaka, he broke into only houses husbands had just left for works, and raped housewives. There were over 200 victims for two years. He was arrested on Aug.19th 00. ■Bae Seon-tae : Korean resident, Serial rapist, Kanagawa In Yokohama city, Mar.99, he threatened 14 primary school girls with a knife and raped them. He was arrested on Apr.17th 99. ■Lee Seung-il : Korean resident, Serial rapist, Tokyo He lied about his identity as a Fuji TV staff to deceive and rape 140 girls. He was arrested on Jan.25th 00. ■Lee Dong-il : Korean, Rapist, Tokyo He was a professor at Dankook University Korea. While his visit in Japan for a play viewing, he raped a Japanese female actor. He was arrested on Jul.25th 00. A Korean resident lawer had supported him but the victim dropped a lawsuit. ■Sim Ju-il : Korean resident, Serial rapist, Tottori, Osaka, Wakayama He sneaked into nine women's rooms from balconies and raped them. He was brought to a trial on Jul.25th 01.
■Jang Geum-jo : Korean resident, Rapist, Nagano He took out a forth grade primary school girl, telling her "I'm looking for something." and raped her. He was arrested on Aug.28th 01. ■Joi Ji-yeong : Korean resident, Rapist, Niigata He was a student at Chosun University. He injured two women taking a rest in a car and raped them. He was arrested on Sep.3rd 99. ■Kim Seung-sil : Korean resident, Rapist, Niigata He was a student at Chosun University. He was one of Joi Ji-yeong's accomplices. Another 19 year old accomplice, a Noth Korean resident was arrested. ■Obara Joji, Kim Sung-jong : Korean resident naturalized Japanese, Rapist and murderer, Kanagawa He made a british woman drink a drug and raped her. This is famous as the Lucy Blackman case. He was prosecuted for the other six rapes. He was arrested on Oct.9th 00. ■Kim Bo : Korean resident, Kyoto He was a Christian minister and sexually harassed or raped 35 Japanese school girls in his church. He was prosecuted for the rapes against seven of them. He was arrested Apr.6th 05. ■Kim Eui-so, Korean resident, Kyoto, Osaka He broke into houses pretending as if he had only wanted to go to bathrooms in Shimokyo-ku, Kyoto and Takatsuki city, Osaka etc. between mid-Apr. and Nov. in 04 and repeated 6 rapes against women in their 10's and 20's. He was arrested on Jan.1st 06.
【 Achievement in the U.S. House of Representatives 】 Not passed : Resolution on letting Japan apologize for the comfort women Passed : Resolution on letting people know a broccoli is tasty and good for health