Wwii “Korean Women Not Sex-Enslaved”: A Myth-Bust!

By Kiyoshi Hosoya and Yumiko Yamamoto

A story of a con artist becomes an internation’s contended issue involving the US, and the issue dangers a diplomatic tie between Japan and South Korea and the security alliances among the US, South Korea, and Japan, involving China and North Korea.

Readers: Readers can understand the issue and why the story becomes internationally diplomatic, why the issue is so severe, why statues and monuments of comfort women are erected in the US, and how the presidents Obama and Trump and their administrations have worked on the issue.

Target readers: President Trump and his administration, parliament members, professors and teachers of educational institutions, judges and such intellectuals, and businessmen who deal with Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese.

States who may have more interest on this issue: California (San Francisco and Los Angeles), New Jersey, Virginia, Georgia, Illinois (Chicago), New York, Maryland, and basically DP states (Republicans may wonder why the issue is so popular in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and the DP states).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 6, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984535290

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Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgment

Introduction

Principal Points Presented in This Book

The Asian Map and Related Cities or Areas

Chronology of Comfort Women Issue

Chapter 1   Why the Comfort Women Become an Issue in the United States

1.1. The Present and the Past

1.2. When Was the Paradigm Changed and by Whom

i. In Japan and South Korea

ii. In the United States

1.3. The Paradigm Changers Now

1.4. A Lawsuit against the Statue

Chapter 2   A Very Basic Misunderstanding on the Issue: The Origin of the Issue

2.1. Who Were the Ignitors: Mr. Yoshida and Mr. Kiyota of Asahi

2.2. What Were Comfort Women?

i. What Were Comfort Women—Prostitutes or Sex Slaves?

ii. Number of Comfort Women: Two Hundred Thousand or Fewer?

iii. Recruiting

iv. Remuneration

v. Daily Lives

vi. The End of Comfort Women

vii. Japanese Comfort Women

2.3. The Academic Argument on This Issue Is Over

2.4. Argument in Courts

i. Argument on Enslavement Theory: Established or Just One of them?

ii. The Diplomatic Issue: The Violation of Federal Exclusive Right by Glendale City

Chapter 3   Americans Wanted Atrocities by Japanese

3.1. Koreans Are Slaves by FDR in 1942

3.2. Direct Face to the Communists

Chapter 4   Do Americans Still Need Stories of the Enslavement of Koreans?

4.1. Proenslavement: The Last Struggle against Revisionists

i. The Kono Statement

ii. Japanese Government Apologies

iii. Testimonies of Comfort Women

iv. Actual Case of Abduction and Forced prostitution (Indonesia)

4.2. The Root of the Issue: Expiation for America

4.3. The Media: Hidden Supporters of Proenslavement Faction

i. News Laundering in the Media

ii. Freedom Not to Speak

iii. Negligence of the Beginning

Chapter 5   Summary

5.1. What Is the Main Purpose of Proenslavement on This issue?

5.2. America’s Two Mistakes for East Asian Security

5.3. What the United States Can Do about This Issue

Closing

Yumiko Yamamoto

Kiyoshi Hosoya

References

List of Tables, Figures, and Documents

Appendix

Foreword

This is a book that has been waited for some time by those who really know the issue of the comfort women who provided sexual services to Japanese military people during and before the Second World War. Nobody denies the fact that there were comfort women, but presently, they are politically utilized by Koreans and Chinese for the purpose of defaming the Japanese and the government of Japan.

The author, Kiyoshi Hosoya, presents detailed pictures of the comfort women, prostitute or camp followers as aptly described by the US military investigators during the war, supported by a number of reliable sources. These profiles are contrasted with those of sex slaves as claimed by opposing parties. However, sex-slave theorists do not have solid references for their claim, except for stories told by self-proclaimed comfort women. The fatal mistake sex-slave theorists made was the claim that two hundred thousand comfort women were massacred at the end of the war and most of them were from Korea. The population statistics of Koreans available during the 1940s and postindependence in the 1950s did not show any unusual drop in the population age class in the 1950s, which should have been observable if the massacre indeed took place.

This book also presents a historical background in which the American people are inclined to accept the sex-slave theory. For them, Japan should be a bad country, and the sex-slave theory fits well to their liking. Thus, they tend to disregard the historical facts. However, as he claims, we need to interpret history on the basis of facts and not fabrications. He describes how these fabrications were made and spread by modern media.

This is a must-read book for those who have interest in East Asia and the current conflicts between South Korea and Japan.

Koichi Mera, PhD

Princeton, New Jersey

Acknowledgment

We thank very much those individuals who contributed to publishing this book.

We both are not professional writers but are active in recovering our and ancestors’ fames, including the comfort women’s, which are unduly violated by people for their selfish interests and advantages.

It has been a challenging task to publish a book in English in the United States for American readers who, we understand, are not informed fairly, impartially, and understandably on the issue of comfort women.

We thank Mr. and Mrs. Mera and all the Japanese residents in the United States who advised us about the United States and Americans very much. We are also inspired by the pieces of advice given by specialists in Japan about the issue, about Korea and Koreans, and about the modern history of the East Asia.

For improving and correcting our English writing, we owe them to Mr. John S. Koster, author of Operation Snow, Dr. K. Mera, Xlibris and Author Solutions, whom we thank very much.

What we emphasize in this book are why the issue should be immediately ended and how we end the issue that is not only unproductive but also hazardous to morals of concerned people and nations.

We thank again those who contribute to realizing this book and, in return, hope this book shall contribute a solution to the issue.

Kiyoshi Hosoya

Yumiko Yamamoto

January 2018

Introduction

The issue of the Korean comfort women began with the collaboration of a communist con artist and a supposedly reputable Japanese newspaper.

The outcome of the collaboration was an article about the kidnapping of Korean girls on Jeju Island, which appeared in the newspaper on September 2, 1982, thirty-five years ago.

The story was about abductions (women hunting) and sex-enslavement of Korean women whom the story called comfort women.

The con artist was Seiji Yoshida, and the newspaper was the Asahi Shimbun Company (Asahi). Asahi was then the second largest newspaper publisher in Japan.

Both Yoshida and Asahi officially admitted the story as a falsehood in 1996 and in 2014, respectively.¹ Therefore, the issue of comfort women could have vanished if Asahi confessed Yoshida’s confession of his falsehood when he himself did in 1996.

1. If Asahi had not run the article, Yoshida’s story would have remained in a book as a mere penny-dreadful novel. However, thirty-two years after the publication, twenty-two years after Yoshida’s admission, Asahi at last admitted the falsehood of the articles and rescinded them in August 2014 (maneuver, willful negligence, or a simple mistake?).

2. Asahi’s gross negligence or willful sabotage has caused the enslavement story to spread worldwide (misunderstanding).

3. The government of Japan entirely misunderstood the situation. So she ambiguously offered a diplomatic apology for the incident that never actually happened. The apology is called Kono Statement. The apology gave Yoshida’s wild story a semblance of reality that compromised with the government of South Korea, and then it let the issue slide without objection or further clarification (mistakes and misunderstandings).

4. The government of South Korea and majority of Koreans and other promoters of the enslavement theory have intervened for their own individual and collective profit (maneuvers).

5. The promoters have widely spread their modified stories by neglecting the core part of original incitement—Yoshida’s penny-dreadful novel. The Asahi made the stories plausible. So a story with no factual background became accepted as if it were fact (maneuvers).

Good beginnings make for good endings, so a story with no beginning makes for no ending of the issue. The promoters have maneuvered fiction into accepted fact, so the issue has not yet reached a final settlement and will not be settled forever because the promoters, including the government of South Korea, are apt to keep on enjoying bashing Japan. Japan is being made a plaything of human rights by the promoters based on a lurid work of cheap fiction that has been repudiated by its author and by the newspaper that once seriously took Japan.

This book explains how the falsehood of the issue of the comfort women kidnapping and their enslavement has grown

Reviews for Wwii “Korean Women Not Sex-Enslaved”

[LuvlyHavoc · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

just accept what you(the imperial japanese) have done and apologize.
it is really not that difficult to do that.
Germany has done it. it is your turn now.
stop lying, take that mask off. it is not who you are.