Addressing Japan’s ‘Comfort Women’ Issue

Addressing Japan’s ‘Comfort Women’ Issue From an Academic Standpoint :
The attack on the Kōno Declaration focuses on the claim that there are no official documents showing the direct engagement of the Japanese military in the forcible drafting and transportation of ‘comfort women’. This is sometimes expanded into a claim that there is no evidence of forcible recruitment at all. But in fact there is very credible testimony from numerous women that they were directly and violently abducted by Japanese soldiers.
Among them is Jan Ruff-O’Herne, a Dutch citizen, who was forcibly taken by the military to a ‘comfort station’ in Indonesia, and who, at age 91, courageously continues to speak out on behalf of the former ‘former comfort women’. Responding to the latest Japanese government statement, Mrs. Ruff-O’Herne says, ‘it’s just hideous to not acknowledge it, there are so many witnesses who have spoken out about this’ #The Age newspaper, 25 February 2014#.
Foto: Jan Ruff-O’Herne, ca 17 jaar in 1940

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3 Responses to Addressing Japan’s ‘Comfort Women’ Issue

Boeroeng schreef:

7 maart 2014 om 23:48

“It is unforgivable to retreat from the Kono Statement,” Yoshiaki Yoshimi, a professor of modern Japanese history at Chuo University, told academics and rights activists at a Tokyo conference.

“The latest historical documents can allow us to say that the military hurt the honour and dignity of many women.”

Hiroshi Hayashi, a politics professor at Kanto Gakuin University, said he and his fellow researchers discovered at least a dozen new documents proving that there was direct military involvement in the practice.

http://indonesie.actieforum.com/t9519-japanese-historians-slam-sex-slave-apology-review

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Huib schreef:

6 maart 2014 om 13:04

Het is een treurige zaak dat de Nationale archieven 100 jaar niet publiekelijk ter inzage mogen worden gegeven. Zo is het mij ook vergaan dat ik geen inzage kon krijgen in het Rijksarchief over mijn vaders krijgsgevangeschap gegevens en al dan niet bevordering tot sergeant kort voor de Japanse inval.

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Griselda Molemans schreef:

6 maart 2014 om 11:49

There is abundant evidence of the existence of forced prostitution in Japanese brothels during the occupation of the Dutch Indies. The files are kept in the National Archives in The Hague. The only problem is that the documentation is unaccessible until the year 2025. In other words: when none of the former ‘comfort women’ can possibly be alive.

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