Pipokun, look at the difference with Germany and Switzerland. Companies in both countries paid even when they had no legal basis to do so, with some of them initially trying the same oft used Japanese line that 'we already signed an accord that doesn't allow for compensation to be paid to individuals'. Pressure eventually convinced them it ws better to pay to people who were used as slave labor and had property illegally taken. The government in some cases paid as well (1/2 in Germany)
Also, I am still not clear on why the 'all' in the comfort women question makes it difficult to answer. Perhaps it is a problem reading it coming from a Japanese perspective. Of course one can say, no, they are not all liars, but many of them are, etc..
I can't say that all their stories are true, but again are they all liars? Why would so many of them make up such a story? I think it is much more than what another right winger proclaimed it to be, women looking for more wages. If it was only that, then why did so many women turn down money from the unofficial fund offering them it?
Yet Dicek and pipokun and others didn't answer this at all, just talked about what had been paid or signed or making some primarily irrelevant comparisons. Only Mikawa attempted, but didn't seem to answer, to my mind. Again, Mikawa, it's not a yes or no we're seeking, we're just asking if you believe if any of them told the truth?
Nothing is all or nothing, but certainly since I believe some/many of the women were raped, you would think why whitewash it, why would the government try to delete it from the textbooks unless one is ashamed to admit it at all, to admit even the possibility of it happening.
As to the comparison with the US servicemen girls, it seems quite different as they were all paid, and at least as stated in the article, were making quite good money for that time in war-torn Japan. In addition, the Japanese idea was to protect the other women, an idea that still exists in some forms in Japan (sometimes expanded to all Japanese).