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Stupidity?One thing I still don't get is why the Japanese leaders would want their country to be defeated. Having Japan's cities destroyed, its navy largely annihilated, etc seems like a horrible thing for Japan's leaders to want.
The Japanese displayed great cruelty towards others but I don't understand why they would want Japan itself to be devastated.
Lee said she was abducted in July 1942 in the southern city of Ulsan. Two large men grabbed her by the arms while she was on her way to the restaurant where she worked. She kicked and screamed, to no avail.
She was thrown into a truck with five Korean girls _ also about 15 years old _ and taken by train to Yanji in northeastern China, which was occupied by Japan at the time. There she said she was confined to a brothel and forced to "serve as many soldiers as we can to pay them back for providing us clothes and food."
A woman might have sex with as many as 30 soldiers a day. Typically she worked in a 40-square-foot room furnished with a wooden bed and a hard mattress, according to replica at the museum in Gwangju. Often the only other object was a tin basin, dimly lit by a single bulb.
Women who refused to comply were beaten and stabbed with knives, Lee said, showing scars on her right arm and foot. She said she suffered lasting damage to her uterus and nearly went deaf from the frequent blows.
Many women died, if not from the beatings then from starvation, she said, and their bodies were tossed out on the streets "to be eaten by dogs."
One of her friends at the brothel became pregnant and the baby was taken away at birth, never to be seen by its mother again.
Thanks for the article, Rall.
I don't think she is lying. I think she is telling the truth about her experience. I trust that Prime Minister Abe was not denying her story because that was not the point he was trying to make. What was he trying to say, then?
OK, let's take another look at what Ms. Lee said, in the above quote, very closely and very carefully this time. If you do, you can easily notice that Ms. Lee does not say who did it. Not even once, doesn't she? Was it done by Japanese soldiers or Korean brothel owners, or someone else, for that matter? This is a pattern being pointed out for years in Japan. Obviously she's been through horrifying experiences. No questions about it. She must be telling the truth, but we just don't know who did it, and we are unable to find out who did it.
Thus, Mr. Abe's comment: there is no evidence (known to us that proves the Japanese authorities did it). I don't think he was attempting to deny the whole thing.
Thus, Mr. Abe's comment: there is no evidence (known to us that proves the Japanese authorities did it). I don't think he was attempting to deny the whole thing.
How would you feel if you, or a family member was one of them?The amount of atrocities attributed to Japan during the WWII era is simply so enormous that trying to deny comfort women seems pretty silly.
The Japanese would still have to deal with all the horriffic biological warfare experiments that were conducted on humans, all the various massacres in China, the killing of POW's, etc. If the Japanese admit to all these other heinous crimes why would comfort women be an issue?
The amount of atrocities attributed to Japan during the WWII era is simply so enormous that trying to deny comfort women seems pretty silly.
The Japanese would still have to deal with all the horriffic biological warfare experiments that were conducted on humans, all the various massacres in China, the killing of POW's, etc. If the Japanese admit to all these other heinous crimes why would comfort women be an issue?
Yes but Austalians Women and about the vast majority of these women were not "recruited" they were forced to do so.
When are you going to realise Islander that some of us are not buying your crap. As for that piece of Paper you put on the website it could be a laundry tag for some ones laundry.
20,000 Raped women by US servicemen? Perhaps - but when a US soldier goes bad and is caught, not only is he punished, we show it to the whole world. Can the Japanese government make the same claim? They can't because an apology is a disgrace!!!!I believe that suffering is suffering and humiliation is humiliation. If comfort women are going to be saved for their suffering, so should other women who were sexually abused by soldiers of any countries.
American soldiers, for instance, raped 20,000 Japanese women (only reported cases) during the period the U.S. was occupying Japan. South Korean soldiers raped countless women during Vietnam War. Those victims must be compensated only by filing their testimnies to the U.S. and South Korean government. No one can say to those victimized women that their cases are not bad enough, unlike comfort women's cases, and therefore they don't deserve state apology and compansation.
It is time for the U.S. Congress to issue a statement to the world that the U.S. is going to unconditionally accept all tesimonies from all women who claim that they were sexually victimized by American soldiers in the past or at present, and, without questions, they will receive official apology on behalf of all American poeple and compenstion, 50,000 dollars each.