Yes. And, the following document probably may be one of the earliest mention of ‘comfort women’ in the US government document.

http://www.exordio.com/1939-1945/codex/Documentos/report-49-USA-orig.html

The gap between what we repeatedly hear from the media and this report is very interesting. Of course, this may be an exceptional case. But, it could also suggest that people are jumping to some kind of inaccurate conclusion. By the way, from what I understand by reading the Japanese sources, no one ever denies the existence of comfort stations/comfort women.

He maintains his stands that there was no coercion in the “narrow sense”, but he is also open that there were many women who were abducted by private pins, and that the Japanese military overlooked it.

In other words, he belongs to the older generations who think women who are working in prostitutes business are after all prostitutes whatever their recruiting process were.

I think that he is now the big mentor to the LDP right about the comfort women issue is a big problem. I still am a fan of him as a historian (this book is somewhat interesting. He sustains the position of the LDP but as he is an honest historian relying to positive methods, me as a general reader got the impression that in fact the fate of womens who became “comfort women” were very cruel) but he can not understand properly that the gender problem is involved in this issue.

Apperantly he belongs to the older generations of Japanese male who firmly believe 女郎は所詮女郎。

I thought you have read the book by Hata. There is a quite lengthy part in which he discussed comfort women in Burma. He said that the fate of these women in Burma (and in Philipine) were very cruel.

There is another essay by Asano Toyomi about korean comfort women in Burma (a young but very solid historian) which you can access on the internet.

http://www.awf.or.jp/program/pdf/p061_088.pdf

I own this series in DVD and I saw it for the first time in the early 90ies when the comfort women became a political problem. The talks of Teru Okada was very impressive.

This series is the best Documentary about WW2 in my opinion. You can watch Albert speer, Doenitz and Traudl Junge (the secretary of Hitler) first hand talking about the war.

“…For the enlisted men, our entertainment, because of you are entertaining only between battles or on one days leave and you may die next day, we don’t have too much time for any lengthy entertainment. We go straight to the comfort girls, you pay your money and you come out feeling refreshed and like a new man, you see. Most of the comfort girls for the enlisted men were, many were Koreans and I must say I respect all of them very much. Because who else would come to the frontlines to give us last entertainment for us, for many of us, on this earth.”

“This call has been echoed by protesters in South Korean cities.. Estimates Up to 200,000”

“Korean historians estimate that 100,000 to 200,000 Korean women were forced to have sex with Japanese soldiers before 1945, when Japanese colonial rule ended in Korea. It is not known how many survive.”

This is almost bizzare since entire population of colonial Korea was somewhere around 20 million.1% of entire population was mobilized as sex worker in Korea?

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