Japanese PM and NO sex slaves in WW2

The focus of this thread is regarding women forced into sexual slavery by Japanese troops. Your comment to include you brings the question as to whether you also experienced being forced in sexual slavery?

 

Perhaps this will help:

http://www.businessweek.com/autos/autobeat/archives/2007/02/north_koreans_t.html

 

What a wacko!

 

“Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apologized Friday for the Japanese military's actions in forcing "comfort women" to work in military brothels during World War II.”

Setting the facts and responsibility right was not only the right it is also honorable.

Legal liabilities for Japan taking responsibility for their actions by admitting fault appear to be quashed. “A 1972 joint statement in which Beijing renounced war reparations from Japan, a decision supporting the government's position that postwar agreements cleared Japan of responsibility for future individual claims.”


http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/042807dnintjapan.3649399.html

 

It appears that Japan has been guilty of this a few times, and honestly what country isnt guilty of denying the past. I beleive it was a few years ago that Japanese school districts were accused of changing or eliminating things such as war crimes and pearl harbor from textbooks.

 

So what should be our response to the fact that GIs used the comfort women system for their own "needs" during the first few months of the occupation in late 1945 and early 1946?:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18355292/

 

It isn’t “the” comfort women system. “The” comfort women system discussed in this thread is with regard to slavery by the Japanese military. Prostitution was a legal enterprise in Japan during early occupation. The U.S. military did not enslave comfort women nor did they manage the brothel houses/system.
“Police officials and Tokyo businessmen established a network of brothels under the auspices of the Recreation and Amusement Association, which operated with government funds. There were (was) a great deal of apprehensions at first. But they were paid highly, and they gradually came to accept their work peacefully. On March 25, 1946, MacArthur placed all brothels, comfort stations and other places of prostitution off limits. Not one Japanese woman has come forward to seek compensation or an apology,” Wada said. “Unless they feel they can say they were completely forced against their will, they feel they cannot come forward.”

 

These are just more gov'ts trying to appease right-wing political lobbyists and campaign contributors while also covering their arses legally from lawsuits.

There is no doubt that such organizations were necessary(however politically incorrect). British armies would bring their wives along with the 'official brothels' along on campaigns even when stationed back home. Anyone who says the Japanese were the first or only to do this are off their rockers.

I have a cousin who is a hooker who says 'we forced her to become one by our patriarchal society' and refusal to pay her what she felt she was worth at MacDonald's or something. I have no doubt that alot of women of any nation felt they could make more money to send back home to family then also say they had no choice and were forced into it. I also know boys were involved though you don't hear about that.

I fully accept that Koreans and Japanese and Chinese sold their sons and daughters even after the war. Hell, look at us and Oliver Twist during the Industrial Revolution for child-labour, they were definately not all orphans even by our own history books.

Look at the sex trade anywhere today, not just Thailand but the Eastern European 'sex slaves' flooding into Western Europe in broad daylight. A Canadian TV series last week had immigration officials admitting they believe there are 10,000 sex slaves imported to Canada every year now. And if the Canadian Gov't cant' stop it, they, thus the tax-payers, should be held legally responsible to eventual law-suits.

An irony is that this 'official brothel' response was greatly due to the Rape of Nanking. To make sure such things never happened again. Berlin did. Vietnamese even S Korean histories claim we did the same thing too.

Today where-ever there is an American military base there are brothels and never-ending accusations of rape, kidnapping, extortion of family to sell their girls(even boys) and slavery for our military bases. And that the US gov't makes similar denials as this.

But for the Japanese gov't to deny that a significant proportion of the brothel workers were there by force or extortion(and I don't mean like my cousin claims but literally we'll close down your shop if you don't send your daughter/sister)...is unbelievable and pure law-suit arse-covering.

The reason the American gov't is so quiet on the issue is they themselves are facing the same criticisms and lawsuits for bases all over the world since ww2 and ongoing to this day.

Not believable, legal ass-covering.
Do not believe Abe.

 

BD, you really should not put out such BS if you do not know of which you talk. There are women who are prostitutes by force And there are women who are given little choice but prostitution. But the United States had nothing to do with them. if you were to really follow history, you would know that every culture has cases of women for hire, in one form or another. And most of them were because it was a way for women of low birth to gain wealth and position. The United States has a long standing policy against the use of prostitutes. While individuals may indulge, there has not been any sanctioned operations. Most are cases where people take advantage of a military base and set up shop at the nearest convenient location. As long as they do not cheat, steal, or abuse the troops, they are left alone. As is any local merchant.

In Korea, most of the women are those who have no family. Either orphans or those who violated the strict family code. Some are just kicked out because the family cannot support them. In any case, they are betrayed by a culture that normally would not allow the education and training of women for employment. Many of them chose the life rather than the other way around. One gal I knew in Korea, used to be a school teacher, but decided to join the profession. Her reason was that her male bosses were demanding the same action for the low pay of a teacher. Going pro allowed her to make more money and have a choice in who and when.

Most of the Koreans that I have talked to, said that the Japanese were abusive to them and would raid farm communities for slaves. The really young women would be sent to the houses to attend the troops. The rest would do labor that the Japanese did not want to do.