Sobre o Massacre de Nanjing
Sobre o Massacre de Nanjing, os ocidentais só têm a imagem de guerra da China e Japão, mas nessa época a China estava em estado de guerra civil do local entre facções militares.
Tinha um missionário americano que pesquisou sobre o incidente de Nanjing chamado Lewis Smythe(1901-1978).
No ano 1937 de Dezembro, na época da guerra de Nanjing, ele se tornou secretário do Comitê Internacional para a Zona de Segurança de Nanjing e fez declarações como testemunha do Massacre de Nanjing.
Smythe mobilizou os estudantes para investigar danos causados nos cidadãos de Nanjing pela guerra, perguntando aos cidadãos individualmente.
De acordo com a investigação de Smythe, "foram 2400 vítimas civis causadas pelo ataque de soldados", foi relatados que não se sabem se eram japoneses ou chineses.
Também relatou que "4200 cidadãos foram levados pelo exército japonês."
Isso não era um mistério, considerando que os soldados americanos faziam com os suspeita de terroristas dentro do afeganistão .
Nessa época, em Nanjing, havia muitos "Chineses combatentes disfarçados" vestidos de roupas comum e disfarçados de cidadãos, e "prender soldados derrotados" era permitido pela lei.
Originalmente, o "Massacre de Nanjing" era uma história nessa escala.
The Tale of Forced Abduction of Comfort Women Started From a Fabricated Biography - Why did he lie?
The war ended, and in 1965, mutual discussions took place between Japan and Korea, following which the Japan‐Republic of Korea Basic Relations Treaty was concluded.
This treaty stated that any assets left by Japanese people from the annexation era would be abandoned, and Japan would provide massive economic support to Korea. To Korea, this treaty was like a dream.
During the negotiations for this treaty, when the Japan side mentioned “unpaid wages to the comfort women and deposits saved on the battlefield”, the Korean side promised to “investigate and handle it separately”
During these discussions, talk of the “forced abduction of comfort women by the Japanese army” did not come up at all.
Then in the 80s, Seiji Yoshida and the Asahi Shimbun Newspaper suddenly brought the comfort women issue to the fore.
Seiji Yoshida wrote in his book that “during the way, I was involved in the abduction of North-Korean women on Jeju Island, which was reminiscent of slave hunting”, and conducted lecture activities based on this.
This testimony by Yoshida was published extensively in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.
Following that, Japanese lawyers went to meet the comfort women in Korea, and lured them into taking out a lawsuit in Japan, telling them “you will get some money”.
In the first lawsuit raised by comfort women in Japan, they claimed “give me back my savings book!”. in regard to “Comfort women hunting” claimed by Seiji Yoshida, a follow-up investigation was carried out by the “Jeju Newspaper” on Jeju Island, but none of the residents there knew about the events claimed by Seiji Yoshida.
When the credibility of the book was questioned, Seiji Yoshida admitted that that the work was a fabrication.
The Asahi Shinbun newspaper apologized for the false reporting.
Why did Seiji Yoshida write such falsehoods in the book and conduct lecture activities based on the same?
It is said that Seiji Yoshida is a pen name, and his real name is “Yuto Yoshida”. There is the name “Yuto Yoshida” in his high school graduation register, but he is recorded as “deceased”.
The work by Seiji Yoshida states that he worked in the Shanghai branch of China Airlines from 1939. However, according to an investigation by Chitoshi Uesugi, there is no record of Yuto Yoshida or (Seiji Yoshida) as employees of China Airlines.
Seiji Yoshida impersonated “Yuto Yoshida”, who had already deceased.
It is thought that Seiji Yoshida was a North-Korean agent who took the name of a deceased person in the Japanese register.
This method of taking the name of a Japanese person in the register is known as “Hainori” (piggy-backing).
As there are no intelligence agencies in Japan, there are no agent activities overseas; however, Japan is prime pickings for infiltrators from overseas.
Testimony of a former Japanese soldier "Some people say the Japanese military was managing this business and they took away those women, but it’s not true."
Testimony of a former Japanese soldier
There were also some Jyorouya (brothels), where Japanese prostitutes worked.
All such places were for officers, because average soldiers couldn’t afford them.
Groups of comfort women were sent to the front lines, where the battle was winding down, after the troops. This was not managed by the Japanese military.
Jyorouya at the time took their prostitutes to the front and let the soldiers have their fun, and the Japanese military overlooked this situation to some extent.
Q. Was this organized by civilian brokers?
A. Yes. The military had nothing to do with the business. Medical checks were done by military doctors, as there was a risk of STDs.
Q. Koreans say that Japanese military troops kidnapped civilian women through "man-hunting”. Is it true?
A. No, that never happened. I know because we used to go to that kind of place, and when I heard the stories from those comfort women, there was someone who had been conned and taken there against her will. She said they advertised for helpers for military work. The military did nothing of the kind.
Q. Was this person a Korean woman?
A. Yes, it was a Korean girl.
Q. Was this conman broker Japanese?
A. No, he was not Japanese, but rather a Korean broker. But in those days, there were similar cases in Japan too, right? For example, in places like Yoshiwara...
Q. That kind of business exists nowadays too, doesn’t it?
A. Yes, but that kind of business is not permitted in the present day. This business is conducted in secret.
In those days Jyorouya were managed officially.
Some people say the Japanese military was managing this business and they took away those women, but it’s not true.
These comfort women were Jyorou (prostitutes) as they were called then.
They had to sell themselves for money.
The military didn’t pay for it, but there were pimps who brought these women to the front lines for money.
Western historians who are unable to read Japanese reference books and public documents
Professor Ramseyer of Harvard University wrote a paper in which he demonstrated empirically that
“the comfort women were not “sexual slaves” kidnapped by the Japanese soldiers, and the problems surrounding the comfort women were caused by the recruiters in Korea”,
for which he was criticized by western scholars.
This clearly represents the fact that western scholars are basically ignorant about the problem of the comfort women.
I attempted to start up a dialog on SNS with some of the overseas professors criticizing Ramseyer, but these were all people who were unable to read reference material in Japanese.
These overseas scholars are unable to read official documents from the war, which are difficult even for Japanese people to understand.
Korean scholars are the same, and they rely on Japanese scholars for the translation and commentary on these public documents.
For example, in 1938, there is a document communicated by the Home Ministry Police Affairs Bureau to a Chief in another region called
“Stipulations regarding women traveling to China for the purposes of prostitution".
This document includes the “Seven rules for preventing prostitution transactions and kidnapping against the will of the person concerned”.
However, a Chuo University Professor, Yoshiaki Yoshimi, in his own work, provided commentary that was completely opposite to the meaning of the circular and spread this to western countries.
Yoshimi, who was criticized for this error by Japanese historians, recognized his mistake domestically, but did not withdraw his opinion overseas, and this continues to influence academics throughout the world.
I want you to understand that overseas scholars on Japanese history do not have the ability to read the primary material, lack sufficient knowledge, and are inferior even to Japanese amateur historians.
Most of them can only understand things translated into English.
Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager
Diary written by Korean worker at comfort stations in Burma, Singapore found
In August 2013, the publication of the book, Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager, caused a major sensation in South Korea. In South Korea, it was widely regarded as being “definitive evidence” of the forced recruitment of Korean comfort women by the Japanese Army.
However, if we read through this diary objectively, we reach an entirely different impression—the army comfort stations were run by private dealers and the comfort women were employed by them, even if orderly running of the brothels was per army regulations because of their location near battle zones.
The brothel manager was not merely a manager but under some conditions he was the proprietor. He sent home ￥500, 600 or even 2,000. This shows that his earnings was quite high, considering that a Japanese private first class soldier’s monthly pay was ￥10.
Prof. Choi included major parts of the Diary in Chapter 5 since he assumed that it would be better to for the reader to judge for themselves concerning the nature of the comfort stations and comfort women, to read the Diary rather than just discussing the matter.
In grasping the real nature of the comfort women, I think that the Diary is valuable as primary source material.
*Chapter 5 content; http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Chapter-51.pdf
*Author profile: http://www.sdh-fact.com/auther/choi-kilsung
*Introduction & Contents: http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Introduction-TOC-.pdf
*Chapter 1: The Korean War as I Experienced It
http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Chapter-1-US-Armys-Korean-comfort-women.pdf
*Chapter 2: From Rape to Prostitution
http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Chapter-2-US-Armys-Korean-comfort-women.pdf
*Chapter 3: The Spread of Prostitution
http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Chapter-3-US-Armys-Korean-comfort-women.pdf
*Chapter 4 content; http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Chapter-4.pdf
Questions are welcome.
MOTEKI Hiromichi, Secretary General
for KASE Hideaki, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact
Testimony of a former member of the Japanese Imperial Army – “My comrade was engaged to a comfort woman”
The video relates the experiences of Takayuki Kuraishi (aged 91), a former member of the Japanese Imperial Army, who served on the Southern Front in Vietnam and Cambodia
Mr.Takayuki Kuraishi：
During the war, I heard from a war comrade of mine that he had been engaged to a Korean comfort woman.
At that time, my comrade showed me two photographs of the woman.
He said that they loved each other and had got engaged.
She was beautiful, and he held that picture close to his chest as he went on to the battlefields.
So, it was a really pure relationship.
When listening to the story of the woman in question, she said
”I got engaged to that soldier”
Whenever, my comrade was given leave to go out once a week, he would visit the comfort woman brothel.
The woman was always waiting for him.
She always told him to “take me back to Tokyo with you as quickly as possible”, and my comrade intended to do that.
They all lived harmoniously, like a family.
Q. In Korea, they say that the comfort women were physically abused, and injected with opium..?
I never heard anything about that at the time.
This would never be allowed under the ideology of the Great Empire of Japan.
It is completely impossible. It is a story that has been fabricated in recent times.
The soldiers at that time did not have opium.
There were no doctors to do it, and I do not think that there were any syringes either.
I wonder where these nonsensical stories came from.
Ｑ What do you think of the Kono discourse?
Well, it was the kind of relationship where he had fallen in love with a comfort woman, and promised to marry her, so that is not possible.
At the time, it cost 5 yen to have intercourse once with a comfort woman.
Our compulsory savings were about 5 yen.
Converted to current money, this is about 50,000 yen (500 dollars).
So, if you went to the comfort woman brothel 3 or 4 times a week, your salary would be completely used up.
So, I thought it was stupid to waste money on such a thing, and did not go myself. Sorry, but…
the thing is that most people were not interested.
There were about 3,000 soldiers in the squadron, but unless you had a lot of spare money, you would not go.
The comfort women were saving money so they could go home as well.
They were really happy.
Q. Is it not the case that they were brought against their will and forced into such activities?
I never heard of such a thing.
I think the current President of South Korea is a bit odd.
★Testimony of the former Internal Matters Section Leader, Officer of the Governor-General of Korea.
↓If you turn the video subtitles function ON, there will be a translation in English.
