Few relationships are as important to stability in Asia as the one between Japan and South Korea. Yet Japan’s new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, seems inclined to start his tenure with a serious mistake that would inflame tensions with South Korea and make cooperation harder. He has signaled that he might seek to revise Japan’s apologies for its World War II aggression, including one for using Koreans and other women as sex slaves. ・・・
鬼女板からきました。たたき台としてどうでしょう? I am afraid that your article is trying to label Japan is leading toward militarism country. It is not true, Japan is becoming a normal country. If somebody try to invade your territory, you would say no, that what our government is doing. It is our security issues and I believe Japan has right to defend ourselves.
従軍慰安婦について I feel sorry during WWII there were comfort women who were forced to work as prostitute against their will. If there were no war, they would have needed to do so. Japan is responsible in that way, so our government apologies and paid comensation to Korean government after the war. However our apology was twisted as if we admitted Japanese army systematically kidnapped Korean women for sex slave. There is no military involvement for recruiting Comfort women. Again this denial is misinterpreted that Japan denies the existence of comfort women. It is not true, we admit there were comfort women, but it was not organized by Japanese Imperial Army. I hope somebody listen what Japanese are trying to say rather than just label that Japanese deny all history about war.
To someone who doesn't know the seriousness of the matter
Before WWII, Chinese lobbyists were active in the United State to label Japan became militalized to prepare invade neighbouring countries. Then ABCD line ("American-British-Chinese-Dutch") encircled Japan, and it forced Japan to take military action seeking oil. As a result, Japan proof that Japan is an agressor. I am afraid same thing might happen again. Chinese and Korean Lobbyist are very active in my country and the plan to isolate Japan is half-way through.
I am afraid that you write as if Japan is becoming a militaly state in your artcle, but it's not true. Japan is just trying to a normal state that fights to protect its own people and land against enemy. It is the right every country on the erath has.
>>21 英文法云々の前に、簡潔、具体的かつ論理的な和文を書く必要があります。 例えば、「あなたの記事は、...」ではなく、 in the article you wrote titled, "<something>", about <something> とか、 in the article you wrote for <something> on <month> <date>, you stated that ... などとなるように、具体的な和文を作文する必要があります。
タイトル、本文は必ず英語にしておかないとルール違反で削除されます。 タイトル "Can you translate this JPN comment to ENG?" 本文 "Here is the Japanese comment I want you to translate into English: "<和文>"
Japan sectionには、反日白豚、シナ、チョンが多数いるので、 Yahoo Answersのルールの詳細を知らない場合は投稿しない方が良い。
Yours sound more objective than mine. Why don we send to newspapers, facebook pages to see the reactions. Then we can learn. If we don't try, we learn nothing. We don't have time to wait to create 'Perfect sentences', let's take action.
We are not writers, news reorters, or even historians. I am ordinary person and assume many of you are ordinary people. What we can do is to raise voice, therefore it is ok to send short comments which has many grammatical mistakes. If we are just discussing here, nothing is going to happen. If you have any ideas you want to post, please write either in Japanese or English, then something will change.
We don't have much time, so let's try. I see Chinese and Korean people who approached politicians, media and local influential people. By the way I am struggling to make the following sentence sounds better 'At that time Japan learned that it was acceptable for strong countries to colonize others, however they shouldn’t because that rule is only applied to Western countries.'
>>51 Thank you. That is right. I always reply when I was asked if I know what Japanese Imperial Army did during WWII?' I reply "Yes we know but all history books were written by victors, because we lost the war.'
>>50 I guess you can't read English, can you. If so, it is obvious that I write in English first then translate into Japanese. I am wondering why nobody point out my Japanese? I am sure it is terrible and sounds awkward, but everybody says "Your English sentences has many gramatical mistakes"
>>61 I agree, but if we try to create feeling of guilt, they wouldn't listen. In case of Americans, I felt they are also afraid to be revenged. Therefore we have to let them know that Japanese are not resentment or persistent.
>>76 THank you for the information. I don't think we need to translate word by word. It would be very depressing. Maybe we can ask "Have you every heard about Lai Dai Han? " Then they would google :)
>>77>>79 Western people's norm is "they must be suffered so much so it is natural for them to think about revenge" On the contrast many Japanese like America nowadays, as if there is nothing happened between Japan and US in the past. >>79 is right, Japanese are very quiet unlike Chinese, so people can't tell what Japanese are thinking. Seems like they are puzzled about Japan. I think this is the beginning of the misunderstanding.
>>83 Can you translate word by word without getting depressed? That is fantastic, please translate that and post here. That would be very useful information when it comes to debate. Great!
日本の一流紙・朝日新聞asahi news paperは=共産主義者communistだということを大々的に知らせましょう。 NYTも参考にしてると言われますし、各国のマスコミとのパイプがあります。 朝日新聞の中国との密着具合や悪行をbecause they are communist.という定型句とともに広めるのです。 NTYの情報が確信が持てなくなるとなると、そのソースはどこなのか人々は興味を持ちます。 その先にある源泉は実はcommunistであるということを世界常識化してしまうのです。
Australian foreign minister said that KOUNO's discourse should be observed. KOUNO's discourse says that Japan forced Korean women work as prostitutes. Of courese, there is no conceivable evidence for it.
Ausutralia should become wise. Those who can't tell fact from fiction are very ugly. Do Australian think Japanese are liars? Don't you know the nature that Korean are a psychopathic liar?
Australian foreign minister said that KOUNO's discourse should be observed.
→う〜ん、ministerあるから The Australian foreign minister? →KOUNO's discourse は 不可算だけど disoureseあるからtheつく? 固有名詞扱いにしたいならDiscourese と大文字にでもするの?
KOUNO's discourse says that Japan forced Korean women work as prostitutes. →は、"KOUNO's discourse"以外はあってそう。談話も今言ってるわけだし。 Of courese, there is no conceivable evidence for it. → う〜んあってそう。
Ausutralia should become wise. → wiserのほうがいいかな。 Those who can't tell fact from fiction are very ugly. → あってそう Do Australian think Japanese are liars? → あってそう Don't you know the nature that Korean are a psychopathic liar? are でも a で受けてよかったような。
I read your article. It was like Japan is turning into a militarism which I don't agree. Japan is normal. Just trying to protect our country and people from some strangers like China and Korea. Every country on the earth has the rights to say NO to these robbers. (あなたの記事を読みました。 日本が軍事国家になっているという意見に賛成出来ません。日本はノーマルです。 中国や韓国などから,ただ自分の国と民を守りたいだけなのです。 地球上のどの国もこの様な泥棒にはNOと言う権利があります。)
The Foreign Minister in Australia said that KOUNO's discourse should be observed. It's about Japan forced Koreans to work as prostitutes which is not true. There is no evidence for it because it's a made up story. Australians need to be aware that Koreans often create fictions. Japanese don't need to tell such a strange lie. Please take time and think which is right from looking back each history.
Seiji Yoshida, he is communist, told a lie that he had taken away 205 women as comfort woman in Korea. Yoshida told a lie for money. But this ridiculous lie was believed as true till 2007 in the U.S. because of information transmission lack and "Japan prevention activities by Korean's".
Do you really believe “comfort woman” about Koreas allegedly? Many Japanese also said that there’s nothing so called “comfort woman”. It’s only prostitute. As you know many prostitutes are always anywhere but why there’s no prostitute during WWII? Korean’s allegedly is not natural. Therefore I believe that they called “comfort woman” is the only Korean’s prostitute. It’s not need to give in Korea ‘Cause Japan didn’t lose them at WWII although Japan had been beaten U.S. Korean only want to say complaint to Japan. They said, “Japan’s history ideology is wrong.” But wrong ideology is in Korean side.”
S Korean man had already killed Japanese prime minister of Hirofumi Ito. He was first Japanese prime minister. How many Japanese have known this truth history? Why Japanese school haven’t taught student this important history. I think, Korean people should have to apologize Japan government and Japanese people but they ignore!! I never forgive Korean and I don’t recognize that Korea is an independent country. Recent news information, someone Korean is asking Japanese government, “We threaten to kill current Japanese prime minister of Shinzo Abe.” Japanese police have searched sender now but it looks like so difficult. We never forgive this like a threat and we strongly demand to them, apologize to Japan immediately.
Barbarous acts of China and South Korea bother the world. They claim that Japanese hurts their face, but they are shameless about lying. And when their lies or fictions are completely revealed and denied, they are beginning to feel shame and hassle others in order to recover the face which they think they should have.
In modern history, South Korean had never fought against Japanese Army. There is only 1 South Korean claim that they fought the Battle of Qingshanli in 1920 against Japanese, but the real enemy was Korean bandits. In these days Manchu, such bandits are everywhere. Only the late Kim Il-Sung of North Korea and his company fought against Japan for independence of Korea. South Korean take trouble to spread the lie what they had won the Battle of Qingshanli, but Japanese army stood on the battlefield. There is no reason for looser standing on there.
Rest of only one who South Korean proud is a terrorist bomber. Since every able personal had joined the Japanese modernization of Korea, the rests was only vagabonds. It is South Korean miserable that they have to make the vagabond a hero.
Until now from the end of the war, Japan has provided much financial support for Korea. At first, when these two countries signed the Basic Japan-South Korea Treaty in 1965, Japan paid 1.1 billion dollars, about 2.3 times the amount for Korea's national budget of that time, for financial aid money.
Since then, Japan has given lots of aid to Korea through ODA, the yen-loan, an export-import bank and by licensing of technology. Japan also saved it's three times currency crisis of late years. So I think it's not too much to say that a good part of Korea's rapidly economy growth of recent years have been supported by Japan. Nevertheless the Korean government has kept it's people from these facts, and yet it continues to provide too much anti-Japan education to the people. Young Koreans have not been taught real history about Japan and Korea, and take every chance to behave in an offensive manner affected by their government. Japanese have tolerated the rude behaviors of Koreans, due to the past background, but I think it is time to get over now. Japaneses should say what must be said. The Japan's over-tolerance does not good for not only Japan, but also Korea.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) urged to remove Korean seafood from the US market on 14th June. It says that they may have been exposed to human fecal waste and are potentially contaminated with norovirus.
The norovirus from Korean seafood allegedly has killed three people in the US. In Japan, for this 10 years, not only norovirus but also bacteria coliform, parasite eggs and enteritis vibrio have been found from seafood or kimchi made in Korea.
The biggest problem about this is that in Japan we have had little information about the risky Korean food from either the Japanese Government or Japanese media.
Why they (the Japanese Gov. and Media) have became so quiet when it comes to things against Korea? They fear a possible friction with neighboring country's people? or fear real violence? like hysterical, persistent, collective protest activities which Koreans make ? or because of money? which is said that Korean government throws around to get advantage or maintain their honor in the world?
Anyway as it stands now, the Japanese Gov.couldn't protect even the lives and health of it's people.
Hendrick Hamel(1630 -1692)'s narrative of captivity and travels in Korea The Koreans are very much addicted to stealing, and so apt to cheat and lie that there is no trusting them.
Korea and her neighbors Isabella Bird(1831-1904) It is every man's business to hear or create all the news he can. What he hears he embellishes by lies and exaggerations, Korea is the country of wild rumors. What a Korean knows, or rather hears, he tells.
The New York Outlook 1905 George Kennan The Koreans are mostly exaggerators or barefaced liars, by heredity and by training, and it is impossible to accept without careful verification, the statements which they make with regard to Japanese misbehavior.
Country of Liars by Kim Dae-joong 2005
In every country there are crimes that uniquely reflect its society. National Intelligence Service director-designate Kim Seung-kyu, in a lecture he gave late in May when he was justice minister, said: "The three representative crimes of our country are perjury, libel and fraud."
The common denominator of the three crimes is lying; in short, we live in a country of liars.
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"China, if you have the time to invade other countries. why dno't you try to take measures to prevent air pollution damage or deal with expanding gaps between rich and poor in your own country?"
The JapanToday.com Web site is not for everyone, February 26, 2005 BusterBloodvessel After a paying only a brief visit to the JapanToday.com Web site, I have come to the conclusion that if anybody who hates Americans, Koreans or Chinese; detests a Western-style way of life; or is an armchair cheerleader for global Islamoterrorism. Then those types of people will love JapanToday.com
Terrible Site, February 28, 2005 British Bulldog After reading the review section here, I took a look at the site and read their policies. The news articles was a collage of reports from other news outlets. their server was slow and if I had to sign on I had to disable my Norton Anti Virus privacy protecting. Wonder why? I read hateful and disgusting remarks which, by their board policies, is a violation of their rules.
e.g "there are too many hilly billy rednecks in america. thats how bush managed to win the elections. and when i say hilly billies i mean the type that like to take pictures of naked prisoners in iraq. I think we need another war to wipe out a few of these hill billies"
The site speaks for itself. The company in charge is not holding fort.
On balance...well, you get what you pay for, March 7, 2005 Socrates Abroad "Socratesabroad" (China) First off, most of the 'news' on JT is a recycling of wire service articles from other sources, but they do get a star for collecting all of the English stories in one place. That said, the forums are a joke. If you're interested in a rehashing of WWII, strange Japanese habits, or Bush/America sucks threads, then this site is for you. More insightful information and opinions from people with actual ties to Japan can be found at sites like f@ckedgaijin or let's japan. To put it simply, sure I might click on another page's link to JT to read an article, but I'd be sure to close that page as soon as I'm finished. Definitely not a site I'd go out of my way to check regularly.
The site is Anti-Japan Today or Anti-America Today, March 8, 2005 QooQ The webmaster clearly stated racist remarks against Japanese are allowed on the forum beceuse Japanese is not a skin color. But he has deleted the comment after receiving protests. Some moderators/admins have clear intention to lead the discussions to hate Japanese or Americans. So I always wonder the site may be controled by some kind of political activists?
There is in the peninsula to-day, as there has been for a thousand years, an ingrained dislike of Japan and the Japanese. As naturally as the Corean says Kong-ja-nim (The Master Confucius) he says of Japan Wai-nim or Keu-gajie-nim(Contemptible wretch). It is in the most cases an unreasonable, foolissh dislike, but it is a part of his bone and fibre and breaks forth from him on all occasions.
The great invasion of 1591 is still referred to as though it had happened yeaterday or the day before. In those days they burned down the huts and drove sharpened stakes through the helpless children, and mothers still, when youngsters cry, say "Ch'ung-chnng-i Will‘ catch you,” Ch'ung-chnng-i being Kaito Kyomasa the General of the first division. Records regarding Japan are a tale woe only and load one well along into the region of present day thought, where the natural heart of the Corean is all against the Japanese.
A Chinese army might march through this country, plunder it from coast to coast, and commit all kinds of outrage, but its evil deeds would be forgotten tomorrow. A hundred thousand Japanese might pass along the same way, silent as the dumb except for their tramp ; paying for every bag of rice and every string of eggs, molestihg no one, orderly and well-behaved perfection itself, and yet be talked of as a plague, Wei-nim thieves, robbers, wretches.
What are the causes of this unnatural and extravagant dislike of the Japanese on the part of Coreans? Let me Say first?disposition. The Coreans says that the Japanese is deceitful and untrustworthy.
No land could possibly make a greater showing for bribery and corruption than Corea herself. On no piece of ground have men deceived and been deceived more universally than in this peninsula. No Government ever rexisted that was more iufected with rottenness to the bones, cheating, defrauding. But Corea has grown accustomed to and unconscious of her own way of doing such things and sees only fault of others.
"But"they say, “ Japanese are such small people. little in thought and disposition and are so exacting about particulars." This is true: the Japanese are past-masters of detail as is proved by the present war. Nothing is forgotten.
To the smallest items everything is planned for, and no doubt their succes is largely due to this. Corea on the other hund is the most careless country imaginable. She never dreams of planning definitely or of carrying out exactly.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/12/us-olympics-sports-idUSBRE91B0KD20130212 "The 15-member executive board needed four rounds of voting to decide on wrestling with pentathlon, hockey, canoeing and taekwondo also getting votes to be dropped from the Games." レスリング、五種、ホッケー、カヌーとテコンドーがドロップリストに上がっていたようです。 レスリングが生き残れば、五種かテコンドーが落ちるみたいですよー
A source told French news service AFP the IOC executive board vote had come down to wrestling and modern pentathlon and that it was “very close, maybe one or two votes separating them. The trouble was while modern pentathlon and tae kwon do did effective lobbying. Wrestling thought they were safe and did none at all.”
チョン系アメリカ人が暴れたのが事実だからw ESPNサイトコメントで柔道外せというアジア人がコメントw(チョン系アメリカ人が暴れていますw) Johnny_Clark(中国系アメリカ人か?韓国系アメリカ人か?)Remove of Wrestling from Olympic is greatest mistake ever in sport! They should remove "Judo" because it is almost wrestling-like and unnecessary sport in Olympic. Please be realistic. So... Vote to Save "Wrestling" Vote to Remove "Judo" Thanks in advance. ? ? 「オリンピックからレスリングの削除は、最大のミスでスポーツです ! ほとんどレスリングのような不必要なスポーツのオリンピックのため彼ら「柔道」を削除する 必要があります。現実的なください。だから.投票「レスリング」を保存するには「柔道」を削除するには投票事前のおかげでください。」 ↓ Jotunn8046(アメリカ人) Iran, Russia, America, and Japan will protest this. Personally, I think they should get rid of equestrian. Just watch dressage. Watching rich people prance around on their horses is sickening. Taekwondo is also expendable. It's too localized to Korea and rigged. Lastly, Wushu should not be considered. It's only practiced in china and is more like stage combat .「イラン、ロシア、アメリカ、日本に抗議するでしょう。個人的に、彼らは馬術の解消を取得する必要がありますだと思います。ちょうど馬術を見る。周りを見ての豊かな人々 躍り彼らの馬には不快感を覚えるです。テコンドーも消耗しています。あまりにも韓国にローカライズされており、不正に操作します。最後に、武術ではありません。それは中国での練習は、戦闘の段階のようなより多く」 反論するシナ?(チョン?) Johnny_Clark Stop your unfair anti-Korean and anti-Chinese comments! you're Japanese and don't want other countries to have their sports in Olympic! DON'T MAKE POLITICAL OLYMPIC.「あなたの不当な嫌韓、反中国のコメントを停止 ! 日本語では、他の国はオリンピックで彼らのスポーツにしたくない !政治をしないでくださいオリンピック。」
I'v heard taekwondo or modern pentathlon was initially supposed to be dropped from the Olympic games. But the decision has rushed through Olympic Committee. I just don't get it. This Feburary IOC President Jacques Rogge went to Korea to receive a decoration from Korean government, following this President Rogge awarded a merit medal to Korean President. Just after this, the exclusion of wrestling... The two sides get too close, doesn't they?
Federal authorities shutter Macon massage parlor; 3 named in 43-count indictment
Owner Hyeon Joo Chae, who also is known as Huyn Joo Choi, was arrested by U.S. marshals and was being held at the Bibb County jail without bail Friday, according to jail records.
Chae, 44, of Atlanta; Kye Wol “Kim” Dyreson, 72; and Ki Un “Love” Jordan, 49, are charged with conspiracy to use an interstate facility to promote prostitution and conspiracy to commit money laundering, according to the indictment.
Chae and Dyreson additionally are charged with use of an interstate facility to promote, manage and carry on prostitution. Chae also is charged with money laundering and failure to file a factual statement about an alien, according to the indictment.
買うのも韓国人 PROSTITUTION Who are the biggest clients of prostitutes in Southeast Asia?
A)You are! Congratulations (and gross).
B)People who didn't receive enough attention as children.
C)Prostitutes? There aren't any here!
D)South Korean men. Now, now, before you get all defensive, this report comes from extensive research by the Korean Institute of Criminology (KIC) that has looked into a variety of resources to reach this conclusion. The KIC's findings suggest that Korean tourists outnumber all other nationalities in terms of the frequency of visits to prostitutes, although there's no hard data to support this claim. A previous report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime also said that Korean men were prime clients of child prostitutes in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. The KIC speculates this high figure may come from the fact that many Koreans claim they are unaware that sex tourism in Southeast Asia is illegal, coupled with the fact that they are lured into red-light establishments by local tour guides. http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/336032/think-you-know-what-s-happening-in-the-world-around-you
The clash between Japan and South Korea over redress for former ‘comfort women’ is a key element preventing stronger ties between the two neighbours. The issue has also diverted attention from the larger problem of human-trafficking that plagues both countries. In recent years understanding of the issue has been broadened by Asian scholars who have moved beyond the version that was dominant in the early 1990s. In the West however, perceptions remain as they were twenty years ago, repeating as fact elements that have been brought into question or utterly disproven. This inaccurate portrayal by Western media and governments has compromised resolution of the issue in Asia and failed to acknowledge widespread use of equivalent systems of prostitution by both South Korea and the USA. The reason Japan was so specifically targeted lies in a timely convergence of feminism, Korean nationalism and latent anti-Japanese racism. Acting to exaggerate the cruelty of Japan’s system while ignoring those of other nations, these factors prevented Japan and South Korea from developing a new perspective on the issue that would allow stronger ties between the two and refocus the campaign to end exploitation of Asian women.
Man arrested for throwing feces at embassy SEOUL, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- A 49-year-old South Korean man was arrested for allegedly throwing a plastic bottle containing feces into the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, officials said.
The man, identified only by his surname Choi, allegedly climbed over the wall of the embassy Friday evening after Japan claimed sovereignty over South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo earlier in the day, Yonhap news agency reported.
おめでとう、シー・シェパードが海賊と認定されました。 Court: Anti-whaling protesters are ‘pirates’ A ruling of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals labels the Friday Harbor-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as pirates.
Koreans Fear Candidate for New KEI Head A July 11 Hankook Ilbo article entitled "Uproar Over 'Comfort Women' Comments of Candidate for New Head of US Think Tank on Korea" says that Koreans are worried that the Board of Directors for the Korea Economic Institute (KEI) in the United States will select Illinois Representative Donald Manzullo to be the new President of the institute. Former president, Ambassador Jack Pritchard, stepped down on June 29, and Abraham Kim is currently acting as the interim President. (LINK).
The article explains that the uproar is because Representative Manzullo was one of the congressmen who spoke out against the 2007 US House of Representatives Resolution 121, which asked the Japanese government to apologize to former comfort women and to include curriculum about them in Japanese schools. The article quotes Representative Manzullo as having said the following:
”Why must the US House of Representatives act as a jury to decide if a Japanese apology is sufficient for Koreans to accept? We are not the United Nations, and we are not a court.” The above quote is simply my translation of the quote in the Korean article. I am not sure of the exact quote, but I did find the following written quote from Mr. Manzullo HERE
I question whether the United States House of Representatives is the proper forum to address historical grievancess between third parties. While House Resolution 121 is well intentioned, I fail to see how it will do anything to provide closure to the survivors of this situation, and I fear this resolution could pit ally against ally and American citizens against each other. The Hankook Ilbo article says that someone with the Korean Embassy in the US said he had heard that Representative Manzullo would be the next President of the KEI.
Comfort Women, Military Prostitution and Human Trafficking The need for a perspective shift in Japan and Korea Gavan Gray, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan [
Introduction
Orwell wrote in 1984 that “who controls the past, controls the future… who controls the present, controls the past.” That history is written by the victors is widely accepted as a truism, but the idea that our own history has itself been distorted is far less commonly admitted. Japan’s use of militarised prostitution in WWII is one such issue. In Asia it is a contested issue, among both ‘revisionists’ and redress activists themselves. However, in Western coverage (referring in particular to the dominant US, UK and Australian political and media commentary) the dominant paradigm remains as it was twenty years earlier. Not only is the case against Japan presented in a highly exaggerated and sensationalist fashion, free from any context, but the greater sins of her accusers have been thoroughly whitewashed. This failure to take note of developing views on the issue acts to prevent resolution of the problem, forestall reconciliation between Japan and Korea, and prevent a refocusing of activism upon the far greater and ongoing problem of militarised prostitution and human trafficking that exists in both countries.
Women working as prostitutes frequently suffer abuse and exploitation. This is even worse for women working as military prostitutes, and for those actually serving in the field during war time the suffering must be greater still. As such, it is clear that many comfort women must have endured difficult lives during WWII. However, the Western media’s portrayal of the issue, focusing solely on the suffering of the women involved and the guilt of the Japanese Army is deeply biased and inaccurate. While conditions may have been grim, this was not always the case and depended very much upon where the women served. The system of debt bondage was, unlike present cases, perfectly legal at the time and used in many fields besides the sex industry as a flawed alternative to abject poverty. It was also in place both before and after the war years.
The treatment of the women was very much the same as that of military prostitutes in France and Germany during World War One, or those in Japan, Korea and Vietnam in the years after WWII. In fact, the comfort system arguably provided stricter regulation and higher compensation, with several women becoming quite wealthy. Despite frequent media usage, statements that 200,000 women were involved and that most were Korean are pure speculation that remain unsupported by the available documentation, which in actuality suggests a much lower number of overall comfort women and a far smaller proportion of Korean women.
The sources used to promote the issue have been shown to be largely unsound. The work of Yoshida has been accepted as falsified. The conflation of the Teishintai and comfort women is recognised as baseless. The actual crime of the military has shifted many times; from direct forced recruitment, through recruitment by deception to exploitation of the women’s poverty. Finally, the oral testimonies of the women have, in many cases been shown to be untrue or self-contradictory, in others guilty of unsupported claims of extreme and unbelievable brutality, and in others have offered testimony that directly challenges the ‘official version’ of the redress movement. In addition, the testimony itself is highly vulnerable to distortion, through the effects of time, personal bias and outside influence.
The redress movement has been shown to be based far more upon advocacy of Korean nationalism then the welfare of sex-workers and was promoted by a concurrent growth in feminist groups who saw the issue as a banner to rally around. Japan has, in response provided ample apology and significant redress for the women involved, far out-stripping any recognition the South Korean and American governments have offered for their own ongoing abuse of systems of military prostitution. Despite this an anti-Japanese perspective, that goes far beyond what leading academics accept as the truth of the issue, continues to be promoted by Western media in a manner that display signs of latent anti-Japanese racism.
The most important issue though, is that the redress movement continues to detract attention from the far greater and ongoing abuse of women victimised by sex-trafficking and military prostitution. The failure of both governments to fully address these problems suggests that their respective stances on the comfort women issue are aimed far more toward promoting personal political goals than supporting the rights and security of women in the present day. It falls upon Japan to be the first who must demand international recognition of the skewed and deeply biased manner in which this issue has been framed and, upon achieving that, to call upon South Korea to jointly admit to and offer to atone for their shared past exploitation of women. Only in such a fashion, can common understanding and future cooperation be brought to this still deeply distorted subject.
"The treatment of the women was very much the same as that of military prostitutes in France and Germany during World War One, or those in Japan, Korea and Vietnam in the years after WWII. In fact, the comfort system arguably provided stricter regulation and higher compensation, with several women becoming quite wealthy. "
What Japanese history lessons leave out By Mariko Oi
Japanese people often fail to understand why neighbouring countries harbour a grudge over events that happened in the 1930s and 40s. The reason, in many cases, is that they barely learned any 20th Century history. I myself only got a full picture when I left Japan and went to school in Australia. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21226068
Japanese people often fail to understand why neighbouring countries harbour a grudge over events that happened in the 1930s and 40s. The reason, in many cases, is that they barely learned any 20th Century history. I myself only got a full picture when I left Japan and went to school in Australia.
大井の記事紹介してくれた方、どうもありがとう。記事の真ん中辺りに、 such as South Korea and Taiwan, say they were forced to work as sex slaves for the Japanese army. とあるんだけど、台湾でそんな事言ってるのは外省人だけでしょ。 蔡焜燦(さい・こんさん)氏が著書「台湾人と日本精神」の中で触れている。 「南方から引き揚げてきた慰安婦と言葉を交わしているが、強制連行などという話は聞いたことがない」
In campaigning for office last fall, Abe repeatedly promised not to join TPP if the price was eliminating Japan’s high agriculture tariffs upon entry ? a clever formulation if he decided to push ahead once in office, since no country goes into trade negotiations giving away the store. In a tortuously crafted statement after his summit with President Obama late last month, Abe got the assurances he needed. In exchange, he acknowledged that everything would be on the table for negotiation and agreed to address U.S. concerns about Japan’s automobile and insurance markets.
■(Part1)There was the International Committee for Nanking Safety Zone. This committee consisted of 22 Westerners. This committee wrote reports regarding the security situation of Nanking city 61 times from Dec.13, 1937 to Feb.9, 1938 and sent the same reports to Japanese Embassy, Embassy of the United States, British Embassy and Germany Embassy. According to these 61 reports, they reported murder: 41, mayhem: 44, rape: 361, taking: 390, plunder and others: 170 for 2 months. (Part2)However, all of these reports were “hearsay”. In other words, nobody of this committee witnessed them actually. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Tokyo Trial: 1946-1948) summoned 4 members of this committee included Magee, Ashmore Fitch, Bates and Wilson. They testified they did not witness any murder and heard from someone. This trial proved nobody witnessed murders actually and they wrote reports on the basis of”Hearsay”.
>>647 No problem. i'm not native English speaker therefore it's natural, there're some of mistakes in sentence!! i guess, it's okay to have many people understood what i say.
It’s not so much the Mainichi Shinbun readers are many left wing people, as the Mainichi Shinbun have readers made left wing. Can I ask you a question for Mainishi reader? Why you read it every day? It’s really interesting, innit?
You know, there’re many unbelievable columns on this newspaper that it’s an untruth for makin’ trouble in Japan. I thought, this company might be made by the left wing people therefore I’d like to remove these trouble newspaper company in Japan!!
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>>719 Japanese past prime ministers have acknowledgde the facts about the Japanese military's doing in the past war and apologized from the bottom of hearts about them repeatedly. Also Japanes govt paid 800 million dollars to Korea as economic assistance money (not as "war reparations" but "economic assistance", because Koreans didn't fight Japan, rather fought the war with Japanese army as Japanese) when Japan entered into Japan-S.Korea Baseic Relations Treaty with korea.This money was more than double for Korea's national budget of that time. Since then Japan constantly has given S.Korea no less than 670 billion yen in total as aid at every chance. These money was paid by Japanese taxpayers, and it is an undoubted expression of Japanese people's sincere apologies.
Nevertheless, S.Korean Govt has not discloseed these facts to the public, it's media and anti-Japanese groups have intentionally ignored them even if they knew. The enoumas atonement money have never been paid to ex-comfort women in Korea yet.
Japanese past prime ministers have acknowledged what Japanese military had done in the past war and apologized for them from the bottom of hearts repeatedly. Also Jp's govt paid 800 million dollars to Korea as economic assistance when Japan signed Japan-S.Korea Basic Relations Treaty with Korea (not as "war reparations" but "economic assistance", because Koreans didn't fight Japan, rather fought with Japanese army as Japanese)This money was more than double for Korea's national budget of that time. Since then Japan constantly has given S.Korea no less than 670 billion yen in total as aid at every chance. All the aid money was paid by Japanese taxpayers, that means it was an expression of Japanese people's sincere apologies.
Nevertheless, S.Korean govt has not disclosed these facts to the public, Korean media and anti-Japanese groups have intentionally ignored even if they knew them. The enormous atonement money from Japan have never been paid to Korean ex-comfort women yet.
Korean Nukes Linked to Japanese Pinball December 4, 2006
Pachinko, a form of pinball deeply loved in Japan, is an industry run by ethnic Koreans, and experts have long believed that the revenues are a vital source of hard currency for the impoverished regime in North Korea. Now, as Kim Jong Il's nuclear weapons program gathers pace, Japan's attitude is hardening, and that includes shutting out the ferry on which money is believed to be hand-carried from Japan to North Korea.
Up to the end of WWII, Koreans were Japanese citizens. They were treated equally. For example, all Korean Japanese (male adult) citizens also had voting rights in national elections held in mainland Japan. Whereas all Japanese citizens living in the Korean Peninsula had no voting rights in national elections. (A Korean Japanese was elected as a MP as early as 1932.
Brothels were legal at that time in Japan. In fact, brothel culture flourished and prostitutes could become highly esteemed idols in Japan, especially during the Edo period, the reason why ukiyoe (wood print) grand masters liked to draw prostitutes.
Renamed Eden, she soon finds herself in a regiment of sex slaves, most of them immigrants, imprisoned under close guard in a converted storage facility. In a bizarre touch, each girl is given a tiny kitten to take care of.
According to Love, the three most common forms of human trafficking affecting Asia today are forced sex work, forced domestic work and child trafficking.
569 名前:名無しさん@13周年[] 投稿日:2013/04/08(月) 20:54:41.71 ID:w33ZhnfS0 [2/2] Korean Group Warns Officials To Change Memorial Or Face Opposition at Polls Saying that the letter "shocked my conscience," Sokolich reiterates governing body's support of memorial, but asks for consensus.
No, accuracy is pretty good Google Translate. It is the correct English translation of 80% When you configure in a short text in newspaper style. I have translation software for Fujitsu was \ 300,000 five years ago, but those of Google Translate is good.
>>951 Page 24 "They must be Koreans, from the Anti-Japanese Communist Army," Ko whispered. The voice was shouting again. "Stop! All run to the river field. We are about to practice killing our enemies!" They mean us, I thought, the Japanese.
page 82 "We must get out of Seoul. I saw several Korean men dragging girls to the thicket and I saw one man raping a young girl." Ko was shivering. "The girls were screaming for help in Japanese.Will you shave my hair again now?"
TaeKwonDo March 1987 to January 1997 Team Members: Kevin Curtis, Alex Hale, Master Kim
Korean martial arts form-- began my study/journey back in the 80s. A motorcycle accident & neck injury proved to be a minor setback but I still love the sport &... practice with certain limitations. Tae means "to strike or break with foot" Kwon means "to strike or break with fist" and "do" means "way" and/or the "method," or the "art." taekwondo may be loosely translated as "the art of the foot & fist" or "the art of kicking & punching."