Did Japanese Army Abduct Asian Women? Did Japanese Army Force Them into Prostitution? Was Japanese Government Responsible for them?
Recently, a big controversy about comfort women has occurred in Japan because our own historical textbooks are too much masohistic. People in Korea, China, Europe and the United States have a prejudice against Japan and some insist that history education in Japanese schools does not reflect the facts of World War II.

The photo of Chinese Communist guerrila's propaganda was in Japanese history textbooks for elementary school children, but it will not show up again. The history textbook for middle school students describes (after the context that Korean workers were adbucted by the Japanese police under General Mobilization Orders, Kokka Soudouin Hou,) "Asian women were forced to take to brothel and become Comfort women by Japanese Army and police." Comfort women seemed to be abducted the same as abducted Korean workers.

It is necessary for our society to apologize and reflect, but Japanese history education is only filled with apology and reflection. No viewpoint of our own realistic society in Japanese history education. The contradiction has blown harder and harder to Japan since the Gulf War in 1991.

This web page introduces controversy about comfort women. Briefly, this controversy is including:
(I)Were comfort women really abducted by the Japanese government's policy in those days?
(Professor Nobukatu Fujioka)
(II) Former Japanese Imperial Army requested many brothel dealers to establish brothels for Japanese soldiers. Some of brothels for the former Japanese soldiers abducted women and forced them into prostitute. The former Japanese Army have known that fact. The former Japanese army is responsible for such an evil conduct. The former Japanese Army had to supervise and regulate these evil conducts. Did Japanese army supervise and regulate the evil conduct of brothels? The former Japanese army must have known the evil conduct. However, did the former Japanese Army let the evil conduct of brothel's dealers alone?
Japanese Army and govement were guilty because they did not do anything effective.
(Professor Yoshiaki Yoshimi)

Compare these two professors' insistences in this web page.

"Comfort Women: Were They Really Abducted by Japanese Army?" web page is filled with comfort women's testimonies. Please read that web page, too.

These pages are currently under construction, even though all links are active. Please notify me if you want to link, copy, and use this page.

1. Prof. Fujioka's insistences.
2. Prof. Yoshimi's insistences.
3. Comfort Houses' System.
4. Former Comfort Women's Testimonies.
5. Recent Problems of Japanese History Education.

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