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Hi, Angela. Let's continue where we left off.
"In this schoolbooks they hide informations like comfortwoman and forcing prostitution" you protest (original text).
Now let's get clear about what is the installation purpose of a comfort station. First, sexually transmitted diseases must be prevented. And second, it serves as a deterrent against sexual crimes in the field. German soldiers and Soviet soldiers raped women of both countries. The comfort station kept tragedies like that from occurring. It was considered as a "necessary evil".
In this picture, comfort women are following the redeploying troops. Inferring from her facial features, the right-side woman must be Korean, but many of them were Japanese women.
http://81.xmbs.jp/piroshigogo-218465-ch.php?guid=on
It's a serious problem if the JP Army hired only Japanese women, because both Koreans and Taiwanese were members of Japan at the time.
Japan was under the economic blockade before the war. The Allies had blocked the export of iron scraps and crude oil to Japan, and that had a devastating effect on all the Japanese industry. So the people were very poor and they struggled to survive and protect their families.
The JP Army gave equal rights to apply for the job to Japanese, Taiwanese, and Koreans. The military chiefs made a correct decision.
There were many people who scouted around for a bit higher pay and prostitutes are no different from that. The comfort women could make much money in the field so a reasonable number of women applied for the job.
In 1992, 文玉珠 who was former Korean comfort woman filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government. She told she lost her passbook showing her savings of less than THREE YEARS during the war.
The face amount of the passbook is 26,145 yen. This comes to 100 million yen converted at today's rate. About one million dollar.
For your information, JP Army General at the time had an annual income of 6,600 yen. They may well apply for the job.
You say Japanese forced Koreans to prostitute themselves, but there've been prostitutes in all ages and countries. In particular, Korea have had a lot of prostitutes since early times. French missionaries reported the presence of a lot of prostitutes in Joseon to their government. Korea in the 70's depended largely on prostitution for its foreign currency earnings. Even now, despite being a rich country, a number of Korean girls travel abroad for prostitution, and they held a massive demonstration calling for their own rights to prostitute themselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KuWsy5f33c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVIUNR61yos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3FsMw-HuQA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcVFfKrshkk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE_9DkOLgKg
http://japanese.joins.com/article/article.php?aid=126510&servcode=400§code=400
("中央日報/Joins.com" is a Japanese-language version of a Korean newspaper)
There's a lot of Korean prostitutes in Joseon era, in the postwar era, and at this time, but only in Japan's annexation period, they had acted under constraint―that can't be right.
I know you'd never say Korean prostitutes didn't exist only in Japan's annexation period, right?
Now, let's get something straight here. That's not to say that I insist upon the JP Army's infallibility.
In fact, there were cases of forcing Dutch women to prostitute themselves against army regulations. It's a shame.
But the defaulters were punished under army rules and the comfort station was promptly closed.
And there must have been many cases of rape. I suppose I too might if I face possible death.
However, those war crimes are another story. There's no way the Japanese government or the Japanese Army forced Korean women who were Japanese at that time to prostitute themselves against their will.
You say as if only the Japanese Army established the comfort women system, but also the South Korean Army adopted the system during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. You claim Korea's was good system but Japan's was bad one?
The South Korean Army have left behind about 30,000 half-breed children in Vietnam. That's what we call "Lai Daihan". Why don't you blame the villainy?
http://www.vietquoc.com/jan15-00.htm
http://www.hani.co.kr/h21/data/L990426/1p944q0c.html
Did you understand why I call you a RACIST?
That's it. I'm done for the day.
*bow*
My little sister will take over for me.
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