Were Comfort Women Really Abducted by the Japanese Government's Policy at That Time?

Conclusion
The Japanese government is not legally responsible for comfort women abducted or deceived by some bad pimps. Japanese soldiers and brothel dealers who broke the Japanese laws and Army's regulations were legally responsible for comfort women who were abducted or deceived. However, they are dead or punished by now. Japanese Army supervised, controlled, and regulated brothels by law and Army regulations. Even though there are laws, some bad pimps broke the laws inevitably. For example, a few women were killed by some bad pimps, and the police investigated the murders. Are the police legally responsible for a few women killed by some bad pimps?
The last question: Were most comfort women abducted and deceived by some bad pimps?

How many former comfort women are insisting that they were abducted and deceived? How often did bad pimps abduct and deceive them at that time? The number of abducted and deceived comfort women was small. Their unreliable testimonies cannot prove that most comfort women were abducted or deceived.

For example, two former comfort women, Kim Huk-Sun and Mun Ok-Chu, filed lawsuits at Tokyo District Court in 1991. Kim told she was brought to a Japanese troop's camp in the Northern part of China by her step-father. Mun told she was recruited by a Korean man. However, they testified differently at a Korean organization's interview in 1993. If they demand compensation by the Japanese government, whether they were abducted by the Army or not is a very important matter. Why did they change testimonies in two years? A non-government organization defends former comfort women in Korea.

In order to publish a book in 1993, the organization interviewed forty women who insist that they were comfort women. It had no testimony of relatives, friends, neighbors, other people concerned, and people who witnessed the abduction. The researchers reported visiting and meeting former comfort women all over Korea. If it was true, they could have collected supporting evidence. However, they could collect nothing. (They did not seem to have collected them at all, or avoided doing so.)

Typical testimonies of other former comfort women in China, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia are as follows: Japanese troops invaded her village. She was a guerrilla and arrested by the Japanese troops. The Japanese troops severely cross-examined and raped her in caves, tents and shacks at the back of garrison posts. Those women who testified were not comfort women but victims of rape. (Of course, the Japanese Army constituted a law against rape in the Army's criminal law. The Japanese Army regulated and punished rapes.) Furthermore, caves, tents, and shacks at the back of garrison posts were not comfort station.
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