Were the Korean comfort women really "sex slaves"?

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Koreans never seem to stop lambasting the Japanese over the so-called Korean comfort women. As usual their voices are very loud and persisting. It's so annoying and ridiculous that we Japanese are sincerely hoping to move far alway from the Korean peninsula riding on the Japanese archipelago. What makes our feeling even worse is the fact that their blames over the "comfort women" are made up of patent lies.

When talking about the so-called comfort women, Koreans always hide up some plain fact: many Korean volunteer soldiers and civilian employees, as well as no less than 9 high rank military officers, were serving in the Imperial Japanese Army at the time.

Towards the end of WWII, there were a total of 242,341 Koreans serving the IJA - 116,294 volunteer soldiers and 126,047 civilian employees (Ministry of Welfare of Japan). As far as I know, 6 Korean lieutenant generals and 3 major generals were also in the IJA.

Before the recruitment of Korean volunteer soldiers started in 1938, colonel Kim Seok-Won (金 錫源), who had graduated from the military academy in Japan, commanded his all-Japanese unit in China front and achieved amazing war results. The Korean volunteer soldiers were motivated by those brilliant war achievements of Korean army officers.

I think it's ridiculous to believe that the IJA promoted Korean male officers to generals while forcing their fellow Korean girls into sexual slavery. It'd be even more ridiculous to believe that the Korean military men were the clients of Korean sex slaves.

I believe that the IJA would never have recruited young Korean men for soldiers in the first place if they really had forced Korean girls into sexual slavery.

Besides the presence of Korean soldiers in the IJA, there are also some other side proofs:
For instance, no evidences have come up that support the ex-comfort women's testimonies. We have never heard or read about Koreans who claim their female family members were tricked or kidnapped into sexual slavery by the IJA. Why have no family members of ex-comfort women ever come out and raised their voices of protest?

The so-called Korean "comfort women" are just a myth. I can't believe many people still believe this far-fetched story. The biggest surprise is how Koreans dare to go on spreading this patent lie all over the world knowing very well that it's a patent lie. They even built a statue of Korean comfort girl in front of the Japanese embassy in Korea and a couple of monuments in the U.S. Why don't they put one right in front of a Korean massage parlor in Texas?

It's time for Koreans to stop telling patent lies. Or is that the last straw they can never let off?
 
The issue of comfort women has been well documented and researched, and claiming otherwise is denying the truth.

We have never heard or read about Koreans who claim their female family members were tricked or kidnapped into sexual slavery by the IJA. Why have no family members of ex-comfort women ever come out and raised their voices of protest?

Shame? A lot of former comfort women have come forward (see the link below).

When talking about the so-called comfort women, Koreans always hide up some plain fact: many Korean volunteer soldiers and civilian employees, as well as no less than 9 high rank military officers, were serving in the Imperial Japanese Army at the time. Towards the end of WWII, there were a total of 242,341 Koreans serving the IJA - 116,294 volunteer soldiers and 126,047 civilian employees (Ministry of Welfare of Japan). As far as I know, 6 Korean lieutenant generals and 3 major generals were also in the IJA.

It's called collaboration, and it's happened throughout history.

It's time for Koreans to stop telling patent lies. Or is that the last straw they can never let off?

So the Japanese government has apologised repeatedly for patent Korean lies?

This is a quote from an article I have posted here on the forum today:

South Koreans complain that Japan has never acknowledged or apologized for this "crime against humanity." In truth, it has, many times. Most importantly, the Statement on the Result of the Study on the Issue of "Comfort Women" issued by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono in 1993 acknowledged the involvement of the Japanese military in the "establishment and management of the comfort stations and the transfer of comfort women," who were "recruited against their own will" and "lived ... under a coercive atmosphere."

Start educating yourself:

Welcom Nanum House!
Time running out for Korean 'comfort women' - CNN.com
Comfort women - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
So are you saying that the Korean military men were the clients of Korean sex slaves?

And have your favorite documents and web sites ever referred to anything about the Korean military men who served in the Imperial Japanese Army? Never?
 
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Where did I say that? And how is that relevant?

We have had a lot of similar posts here on the forum, just search for "comfort women" or "Nanjing". It takes courage and greatness to face the own dark past, and some Japanese could certainly learn a great deal from the way the Germans have confronted their wartime history.
 
Next he'll tell us that all the Koreans who were brought over as forced labor were actually volunteers. And that decades of postwar discrimination never happened.

Who were the Korean three-star generals in the US Army during WWII?
 
Next he'll tell us that all the Koreans who were brought over as forced labor were actually volunteers. And that decades of postwar discrimination never happened.

No, they were forced labor.
At the time, most of the Japanese working population were conscripted for the war and the domestic production labor power was in extreme shortage.

Koreans were mobilized to fill in this vacated position in the labor market just as Japanese students and women were mobilized for factory work. At the time Koreans had Japanese citizenship and were liable for national service under the Japanese war-time law. It was absolutely lawful act applied equally to both Japanese and Koreans. According to the "Statistics on Resident Foreigners 1974" compiled by the Ministry of Justice, the mobilization law was actually applied to 1,210 Koreans for 4 months from September 1944 to January 1945.

Koreans were entirely responsible for the postwar discrimination. When WWII ended, resident Koreans made an abrupt change in their attitude and began to behave as if they were the victorious nation of the war.

They organized a violence group called the Korean Occupation Army and committed every kind of wrongdoings against the Japanese citizens - rape, looting, land robbery, etc. Most of the pachinko gambling parlors located in front of major railway stations today were built on the lands that were robbed by Koreans at the time.

Because the Japanese police was not functioning properly, the Japanese Yakuza volunteered to fight against those Koreans to protect Japanese citizens. We can see a couple of movies of this real story on DVDs.

Koreans were therefore hated by postwar Japanese. To avoid "discrimination" and make their life easier, resident Koreans began to use Japanese names.
 
I lived in Korea for four years and one of my friend's grandmother was a sex slave under Japanese occupation. My friend doesn't hate Japanese, but her parents and grandparents hate Japan to their guts. I can't believe you can distort facts that much.

If you want to claim some historical facts, then provide evidence. Don't just base on some assumptions such that some Koreans volunteered in the war to justify your hypocrisy

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What connection this has with comfort women is totally your own fabrication.
I don't get what you mean by the paragraph above.

I'm not saying no comfort women existed. I'm just saying comfort women who were tricked or kidnapped into a sexual slavery system by the Imperial Japanese Army didn't exist. I don't get what you are questioning about. I believe Korean soldiers and Korean sex slaves couldn't coexist within the IJA. Am I wrong?

The term "comfort women" (慰安婦) itself has no implication of coercion. It was used in recruitment ads at the time.

If you question about the number of Korean volunteer soldiers (242,341), it is here:
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/朝鮮人日本兵
 
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Koreans never seem to stop lambasting the Japanese over the so-called Korean comfort women. As usual their voices are very loud and persisting. It's so annoying and ridiculous that we Japanese are sincerely hoping to move far alway from the Korean peninsula riding on the Japanese archipelago. What makes our feeling even worse is the fact that their blames over the "comfort women" are made up of patent lies.

When talking about the so-called comfort women, Koreans always hide up some plain fact: many Korean volunteer soldiers and civilian employees, as well as no less than 9 high rank military officers, were serving in the Imperial Japanese Army at the time.

Towards the end of WWII, there were a total of 242,341 Koreans serving the IJA - 116,294 volunteer soldiers and 126,047 civilian employees (Ministry of Welfare of Japan). As far as I know, 6 Korean lieutenant generals and 3 major generals were also in the IJA.

Before the recruitment of Korean volunteer soldiers started in 1938, colonel Kim Seok-Won (金 錫源), who had graduated from the military academy in Japan, commanded his all-Japanese unit in China front and achieved amazing war results. The Korean volunteer soldiers were motivated by those brilliant war achievements of Korean army officers.

I think it's ridiculous to believe that the IJA promoted Korean male officers to generals while forcing their fellow Korean girls into sexual slavery. It'd be even more ridiculous to believe that the Korean military men were the clients of Korean sex slaves.

I believe that the IJA would never have recruited young Korean men for soldiers in the first place if they really had forced Korean girls into sexual slavery.

Besides the presence of Korean soldiers in the IJA, there are also some other side proofs:
For instance, no evidences have come up that support the ex-comfort women's testimonies. We have never heard or read about Koreans who claim their female family members were tricked or kidnapped into sexual slavery by the IJA. Why have no family members of ex-comfort women ever come out and raised their voices of protest?

The so-called Korean "comfort women" are just a myth. I can't believe many people still believe this far-fetched story. The biggest surprise is how Koreans dare to go on spreading this patent lie all over the world knowing very well that it's a patent lie. They even built a statue of Korean comfort girl in front of the Japanese embassy in Korea and a couple of monuments in the U.S. Why don't they put one right in front of a Korean massage parlor in Texas?

It's time for Koreans to stop telling patent lies. Or is that the last straw they can never let off?

Obvious Troll is Obvious

Thepie has pretty much sealed the thread.

Yes there were Korean women who were raped by Japanese Soldiers, and you can use whatever rape word makes it easier on the palate, comfort, forced sex etc. etc.

And if the Japanese did not do it, then they would be the only army of that era that did not.
(you don't hear about the allies doing this kind of stuff because we won)

There is something to be said for the scale of Rape, and the fact that it seemed to have been signed off by the senior officers.
In other armies it would just happen, but intimate knowledge of it would remain in the lower ranks.
Also because in most cases it was done by front line troops. And would not be expected to happen if the country had already been invaded.

People are still sex slaves to this day, around the world.
And Rape as a weapon of war is still used, despite it's ban.

War is terror, and tends to bring out the sh**ty side of people.
 
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