img.2ch.net/ico/tatsumaki.gif Persuade South Korea (the ROK) to accept Japan's proposal on territorial dispute over islets. The ROK is illegally occupying Japanese Territory Takeshima. The ROK calls it Dokdo. Although Japan proposed to the ROK that the dispute be referred to the International Court of Justice, the ROK rejected this proposal. In the drafting process of The San Francisco Peace Treaty, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs Dean Rusk rejected the request by the ROK that Takeshima be added to the relevant article of the Treaty as one of the areas Japan would renounce. This is not just bilateral issue between Japan and the ROK but deeply involves the United States and your inescapable responsibilities in Northeast Asia. Going to the ICJ is a peaceful and fair manner to settle the dispute.
Japan is totally on their own. Obama said he wasn't going to support them. Japan is fucked. Do any of you Japanese know that this guy fucks your women? Japanese women find this man more attractive than Japanese men. You mad Japanese men? WeUnitedabIe
same as Japan. Japan is full of lies and propaganda. They like to say that they were innocent in WW2 and deny a lot of war crimes. :/ xIegionx
ワシントンポストU.S．に桜井よし子氏らが従軍慰安婦問題の意見広告を出しました。 the FACTS The purpose of this paid public comment is to present historical facts. At the end of April, an advertisement purporting to tell "The Truth about Comfort Women" appeared in the Washington Post. The claims contained in these statements, though, were anything but the "truth." Rather than being based on "facts," they appeared, if anything, to be the products of "faith."
840 名前：② [2012/11/12(月) 14:28:46.78 ID:ltFB3oeF0]
This public comment seeks to present a number of historical facts relating to "comfort women" that have not been adequately brought to light so as to enable the readers of this respected publication to draw their own conclusions. No historical document has ever been found by historians or research organizations that positively demonstrates that women were forced against their will into prostitution by the Japanese army.
841 名前：③ [2012/11/12(月) 14:32:01.23 ID:ltFB3oeF0]
A search of the archives at the Japan Center for Asian Historical Records, which houses wartime orders from the government and military leaders, turned up nothing indicating that women were forcibly rounded up to work as ianfu, or "comfort women." On the contrary, many documents were found warning private brokers not to force women to work against their will.
842 名前：④ [2012/11/12(月) 14:34:50.98 ID:ltFB3oeF0]
It also requires the approval of the woman’s family or relatives. A historian who claims that the number of "comfort women" reached 200,000-a contention frequently quoted in the US media -believes, on the other hand, that the memorandum offers proof of the army's active involvement.
843 名前：⑤ [2012/11/12(月) 14:45:21.35 ID:ltFB3oeF0]
House Resolution 121 sponsored by US Representative Mike Honda and other charges of Japanese maltreatment of "comfort women" are mostly based on testimonies by former ianfu. In none of initial statements are there references to their being coerced to work by the army or other units of the Japanese government.
844 名前：⑥ [2012/11/12(月) 14:52:15.07 ID:ltFB3oeF0]
Their testimonies have undergone dramatic changes, though, after the start of the anti-Japanese campaign. Those who testified in a House of Representatives public hearing first reported thatthey were whisked away by brokers, but then later claimed that their abductors wore clothing that "looked like police uniforms."
845 名前：⑦ [2012/11/12(月) 15:01:12.78 ID:ltFB3oeF0]
The ianfu who were embedded with the Japanese army were not, as is commonly reported, "sex slaves." They were working under a system of licensed prostitution that was commonplace around the world at the time. Many of the women, in fact, earned incomes far in excess of what were paid to field officers and even generals(as reported by the United States Office of War Information, Psychological Warfare Team Attached to U.S. Army Forces, India-Burma Theater, APO 689), and there are many testimonies attesting to the fact that they were treated well.
846 名前：⑧ [2012/11/12(月) 15:07:32.90 ID:ltFB3oeF0]
There are records of soldiers being punished for acts of violence against the women. Many countries set up brothels for their armies, in fact, to prevent soldiers from committing rape against private citizens. (In 1945, for instance, Occupation authorities asked the Japanese government to set up hygienic and safe "comfort stations" to prevent rape by American soldiers.) Sadly, many women were made to suffer severe hardships during the wretched era during World War II, and it is with profound regret that we contemplate this tragic historical reality.
847 名前：⑨ [2012/11/12(月) 15:10:53.45 ID:ltFB3oeF0]
At the same time, we must note that it is a gross and deliberate distortion of reality to contend that the Japanese army was guilty of "coercing young women into sexual slavery" in "one of the largest cases of human trafficking in the 20th century," as the House Resolution claims. After all, two-fifths of the approximately 20,000 ianfu during the war were Japanese women, as detailed in an academic paper by historian Ikuhiko Hata.
848 名前：⑩ [2012/11/12(月) 15:14:29.31 ID:ltFB3oeF0]
We are interested, foremost, in sharing the truth with the American public. Criticism for events that actually occurred must be humbly embraced. But apologies over unfounded slander and defamation will not only give the public an erroneous impression of historical reality but could negatively affect the friendship between the United States and Japan. We ask only that the Facts be objectively regarded so that we may share a correct perception of history. Translation of an article demonstrating that there was no organized or forced recruitment: Misconceptions about comfort women and the Japanese Military .
