What is Reddit's opinion of Wartime Military Records on Comfort Women?

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"So keeping reminders of kindness from a supposedly evil group of people is not allowed now? Was it wrong to note something we can consider exceptional?"

Supposedly? Supposedly! More than a quarter of a million Filipinos whose majority didn't have a military background became Guerillas. Lola Henson was only 14 when she was raped by Japanese soldiers and that's her reason for joining. She was fed up. These type of reactions from my kababayans is only proving my point further.

"And? This is a fact that's why Americans are remembered in history as the "good guys" no need for shrines or statues for that when they're written all over the history books and media."

History books of whom? My history books in elementary school labeled them as colonizers because they were. I was already aware of the Philippine-American war since elementary days because that was included in our history books. But none of that mattered during the illegal occupation of Japan in the Philippines because American troops partnered with our Guerillas to fight for our independence. Without the efforts from the American troops and Lola Henson and other Guerillas, Japan would've been our next colonizer and Nihongo would've been our official language.

"Why do you keep on stating the obvious? Also the Comfort Women should advocate for the removal of the said shrine when theirs was removed if that's what really is the most logical thing to do."

Most of the "Lolas" are dead. The "Lolas" who are still breathing have made small protests about it but it's obviously not enough. I decided to post about it for that same reason. I want to help them even if I think it's a hopeless case. I mean, look at your reactions. No support from you. You're even discouraging me to talk about it. You'd probably be very happy if I shut up forever about this topic and just delete my post.

"Then we should extend it to anything Japanese here that's present in the country. Prevent japanese product that may enter the country. Say good bye to Jojo and other anime for you."

Why do you even compare shrines that glamorizes the illegal Japanese occupation in the Philippines to Japanese products that only exercises the economical market relationship between the Philippines and Japan? Our Indigenous ancestors were already barter trading with Japanese in the precolonial days. Barter trading of products was never the symbol for illegal Japanese occupation.

"It's actually what matters nowadays. If not then the removal of such statues would continue."
There are no more "Comfort Women" statues to remove. They've taken it all down. Sooner or later, the Japanese deniers will influence the Philippines. These Japanese deniers have labeled Lola Henson and other Comfort Women as "prostitutes". They've written books about it and it's becoming a hot topic in South Korea and China. The news has already reached the Philippines but Filipinos are too busy defending the Japanese troops rather than defending the Comfort Women.

Nauuna satin ang "pakisama" sa ibang lahi kaysa sa pagmamahal natin sa sariling bansa natin at sariling lahi natin. Sobrang "pakisama" naman yan mga ate at kuya. Sagad sagarang "pakisama" na yan. Wala na kayong tinitirang pagmamahal sa sarili niyong lahi at sa sarili niyong bansa. Puro na lang "feelings" at "opinions" ng mga foreigners ang mahalaga.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Wartime-Military-Records-Comfort-Women-ebook/dp/B01NC0KEB4

"The Japanese military is accused of abducting 200,000 women, mostly from Korea, and using them as sex slaves. WWII military records provide a completely different perspective. This is a compilation of primary source documents, mostly WWII military records of U.S., Allied, Dutch, Australian and Japanese reports and documents related to comfort women. It also includes and analysis of a diary of a Korean comfort station operator. It provides a true description of the comfort women system based on primary source documents.

Archie Miyamoto is a retired U.S. Army infantry officer who spent 29 years on active duty. He served two combat tours in the Korean war and two tours in Vietnam. On his first tour in Vietnam, he commanded a helicopter gunship platoon and was wounded twice. On his second, he served as a U.S. liaison officer to the armored cavalry regiment of the Korean Tiger Division. He served two tours as a military advisor to the Chinese military on Taiwan. On his first tour he introduced helicopters into the Chinese Army, acquiring fifty helicopters from U.S. Army excess inventory. On his second tour in Taiwan, he was the joint operations training advisor to their Ministry of Defense. On his last overseas tour, he served as the joint defense planning coordinator between the armed forces of Japan and the U.S. On his first tour in Japan as lieutenant, he was a platoon leader in the famous 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team. He has also served in Germany. After retirement from the military spent over two years in the Middle East as a project manager for a U.S. firm. After returning to the U.S., he was asked to join a Japanese corporation in Los Angeles. A few years ago, he retired as its president/chairman, and remained in the capacity of a consultant until last year. He is now completely retired and resides in Los Angeles."

Source: https://www.amazon.com/American-Soldiers-Witnessed-Comfort-Flowers/dp/B084DGFP2N

"Battlefields are muddy, sweaty and bloody. So-called comfort women were there during WWII. They were “flowers” blooming at the battlefields, bringing comfort and peace to soldiers.More than 45 years since the end of the war Korean self-proclaimed comfort women have come forward, not as “Flowers” but as abused victims of the Japanese Military. Their stories spread one-sidedly and worldwide. The issue is still argued in the U.N., USA etc.Hostile American and Japanese military men met the comfort women, and left their witnesses. This book contains the 20 Japanese statements and two official reports of the U.S. Army. It’s very late to publicize the voices of the men’s side and the third party, but even now the book surely contributes to understanding the women/disputes, and bringing solutions of the long-standing issue."

Source: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/2/7/hls-paper-international-controversy/

"Harvard Professor's Paper Claiming 'Comfort Women' in Imperial Japan Were Voluntarily Employed"

[...after the war ended and ... was taken home, she told no one what had happened to her. She said she felt ashamed, afraid and isolated. She had no idea that her ordeal had been shared by thousands of other young women at dozens of military “comfort stations” throughout the Pacific. Unable to confide in her family, she remained single and childless for life.

But in 1991, when another comfort woman(Kim Hak Sun) broke a half-century of silence, ... realized that she had not been alone. She registered with the government and traveled to the base where she had been held, accompanied by Japanese historians. She was able to learn the fate of crucial individuals, including a Japanese military officer who took pity on her and was later killed in combat. And finally, she began to talk.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/70-years-later-a-korean-comfort-woman-demands-apology-from-japan/2015/04/22/d1cf8794-e7ab-11e4-9767-6276fc9b0ada_story.html?utm_term=.644be0660603)

Why do many of women who were raped never come forward? Shame, fear no one would believe them, lack of faith in the justice system. It's easier to come forward when other women come forward. The greatest strength is knowing you're not alone. Like with what happened with the Weinstein incident.

She's a 90 year old asian lady, she passed away at the beginning of this year. She really has nothing left to gain.

Who is Yoshida? I can't find any woman name Yoshida comfort woman story.

I can't read and/or write in korean or japanese, so i won't be able to discern her names among the records that are available on amazon, and i don't have access to all the transportation records, provided that they are all still kept after 60 years.

Footage of Korean women sexually enslaved by Japanese soldiers in WWII revealed for the first time

KBS News Comfort Women Video

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Japanese view on comfort women mostly correspond with war time records by allies, why did they need to distort fact in favor of Japan?

Including who did recruitment and who owned business, how business work.

You cannot call wartime records of "allies" propaganda for Japan just because they are not favorable to your view. There was no need for allies to defend imperial Japan especially during wartime.

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Japanese view on comfort women is correspond with allies' (Dutch, American, Australia) military records during war and after war.

Both allies and Japan' war time records prove these points.

1 Abduction of women and rape were punishable under Japanese military law. However there were many instances of rape, notably during the early years of the war in China by Japanese army personnel.

2 The cases people responsible for involuntary recruitment were executed by Japanese officers as well as allies officers. Both civilians and army personnel. American army executed Japanese civilians who are not outright forcing but pressured local women of Guam into comfort women. This show even not outright forcing into comfort women were unacceptable and regarded as war crime by american army.

3 Military brothels were owned by civilians. Brothels owners in which Korean comfort women worked were Korean while brothels Japanese comfort women worked are owned by Japanese civilians. "house master(owner of brothel)" "comfort women" share were 50%/50% and no money went to army. Japanese army did regulation and were customer but did not own business.

4 800 Korean girls were recruited by Japanese "agency" under false premise as they work for factory or work as nurse, those Japanese agency as well as Korean house master were civilians.

5 Japanese women were either the biggest or the second biggest population of comfort women after korean women

Also not related to comfort women, but fundamental misconception many people have is most Japanese police army officers in korea were Japanese in todays definition.

Unlike China or SEA where Japanese army went for war , korea was not battle field and not large number of Japanese officers went to korea. Instead Japanese army in korea was essentially "oppressive police" and majority of those police army officers were local korean people in todays definition, they were Japanese citizen at that time though.