In latest hearing in US, Ms.Lee said "We called him(owner of brothel) Oyaji". J-word "Oyaji" means "Daddy" and is never used by female victims (If you have Japanese friends, ask them). Oh, no.
As I said before, keyperson is Seiji Yoshida, a professional liar. Western countries & S.Korea used "comfort women system",too. Your state has to apologize? Of course not.
You can know details of this political incident at Occidentalism blog or by historian Ikuhiko Hata's "Ianhu To Senjo No Sei".
To Uduak Many evidences, documents were found in Germany case, so you have to change your mind. And testimonies are good evidences if they don't have contradictions.
But what happened was the opposite. Every Koreans in Jeju-do said "There wasn't such brutality like abduction".
Your country defeated Japan, and US army recorded what they heard from comfort women & Koreans in J-army. They said nothing and even some disagreed.
So, medias don't touch them, but many evidences of denial were left by US and Koreans.
NYTのアーカイブ(閲覧は有料) http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F1061EFB38590C7B8CDDA10894DA494D81 --- Japanese Veteran Presses Wartime-Brothel Issue By DAVID E. SANGER, (Special to The New York Times); Foreign Desk Late Edition - Final, Section 1, Page 3, Column 1, 1158 words DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - From his modest house in this distant Tokyo suburb, Seiji Yoshida, now 78 years old and bent by age, has become something of a nightmare for the Japanese Government: a self-described former war criminal eager to confess in front of the television cameras. Again and again in recent months ...
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/the-politics-of-apology-for-japans-comfort-women/ The Japanese despite the passage of time are extremely racist,esp.towards fellow Asians like Chinese and Koreans.One does not have to think of the “Rape of Nanking” or the “comfort women” to get an idea of this perverted group who pioneered Kamikaze suicide bombings and have a caste system that keep Borabaru(?) equal in status with the untouchables of India. They have an inferiority complex regarding their height and accent and try to ape Western values. The society is structured to the point of robot-like efficiency and after many visits to Japan, I feel embarrassed by their subservience to Western values. They owe the world big time apologies and need to revamp their values and give up their mistreatment of their own women. - Posted by Sam
もいっちょ The level of racism, denial and lack of accountability demonstrated in the posts above by Japanese men are truly astuonding. Perhaps you should question where you are getting your information - do you deny that Japan has revised the history of Japan’s role during WWII? Does it not occur to you that you should question what you hear from the Japanese government about its role in comfort women? Yamada, read the official documents - Japan was complicit. Please stop trying to be something that you are not - a western civilized culture. The rest of Asia knows you for what you really were - barbarians who were far behind civilized China and civilized Korea until you got guns from the western world while China and Korea ignored the westerners because they wanted to preserve their culture. Your barbarism was demonstrated during WWII. Judging by your reaction today, it has not changed. - Posted by HHC
When we talk about this issue, we have to read historian Ikuhiko Hata's "Ianfu to senjo no sei (Comfort Women and Sexuality in Battle Fields, 1999)" or "Showashi no Nazo o Ou#2(Purchase the Mysteries in Showa Era, 1993)" (I think it's negligence of us, but they aren't translated. Japanese in this thread mainly uses reserches in these). Because these are the only books written about details of professional liar, Seiji Yoshida.
Seiji Yoshida. This political issue started from his book. Asahi Shinbun(Japanese newspaper) pushed it strongly. Then, every foreign medias followed.
But Korean themselves disagreed with his story in 1989,1992, and Yoshida admitted completely that he was telling lies in 1998.
Can anybody remember the non-Japanese media wrote about his lies?...Yes. No medias did. And they continues to use his even today.(PM Abe also said his name that day, but most medias didn't touch it)
However, there is a smart paper which wrote Yoshida's Story and Hata's blame together before 1998. Nice ballance. It's NYT. In 1992, Tokyo bureau chief interviewed Yoshida. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F1061EFB38590C7B8CDDA10894DA494D81 (Asahi is an affiliated company of NYT, and the bureau is in Asahi building)
The origin turned out to be a lie now, why NYT doesn't mention that? (Or already mentioned? Serch result of "Seiji Yoshida" was only this) That's a mystery.
Now you come to realize. This is not an issue of right or left. This is an issue of fact or non-fact. We have to wait until NYT makes a summary of "Ianfu to senjo no sei" and writes about Yoshida. And then, we'll be able to start the argument properly. NYT, please show me your soul of journalism again. Please.
We have to read historian Ikuhiko Hata's "Ianfu to senjo no sei (Comfort Women and Sexuality in Battle Fields 1999)". Because this is the only academic book that mentioned the lies of Seiji Yoshida.
And we can know the facts below.
1) This issue started from Yoshida's book. 2) Koreans in Jeju-do island disagreed with his story in 1989,1992. 3) Yoshida admitted he lied in 1998. 4) Many non-Japanese media wrote his story, but not corrected it yet. 5) NYT used his story in 1992, but not corrected it yet. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F1061EFB38590C7B8CDDA10894DA494D81 6) PM Abe also said Yoshida's name that day, but every media didn't touched, explained about him.
Then, I have to say this also, PM Abe and we Japanese don't deny the brutality during WW2. We just refuse to accept incorrectness.