Has O’Hearne been able to meet them and verify?”

O’Hearne testified that she was released three months after she was taken to the brothel in Semarang, Indonesia. A Japanese military officer who came to investigate the comfort stations, hearing women were forced , closed down the brothels in Semarang.

In 1948 Dutch military tribunal sentenced Okada,a
death penalty, 11 men from 2- 20 years in prison:they had been prosecuted to have ordered women to be prostitutes, knowing or in a position to know the women were forcibly to have
sexually intercourse.

In 1994, the report by Dutch government concluded that out of 200-300 white women, at least 65 women were victims of forced prostitutes.
（hata page 218(慰安婦と戦場の性）＆
http://www.awf.or.jp/program/pdf/p107_141.pdf）

I am not sure if O’Hearne was able to meet the rapist, but those who are related to this incident were punished.
(BTW Two cents has another side of the story.http://www.occidentalism.org/?p=309#comment-6861)

Asking you to provide evidence to support your accusations is lecturing you?

By the way, here is a link to some Korean newspaper articles from the 1930s that talk about police cracking down on pimps and others buying and selling women in colonial Korea. The articles show that the problem existed before World War II, and that the colonial government was trying to stop it.

Link to the articles

All I am asking Robert is that you keep an open mind and not jump to conclusions.

Turning things around, where is the proof that O’Hearne’s rapists got what they deserved?

Has O’Hearne been able to meet them and verify?

Yup, the whole unit invovled in Nan King were hanged. The general in charge. Hanged. And made an example. Right?

People of Unit 731. Their dicks were cut off by the order of the good Emperor and then hanged.

Fear not, non Japanese woman. Look for the guy with the special arm band in uniform. The Kenpeitai will protect you.

Why are Japanese ultra-nationalist happy when Japanese state wasn’t officially paying restitution? Could quote the source?

And why do you think Japanese government have done as they have done in order to please Japanese ultra-nationalist?

” so what if the Korean government and society has treated the comfort women like shit? Does that justify Japanese ultra-nationalists trying to repackage wartime sexual slavery as prostitution or, when that fails, passing the blame off onto unscrupulous Korean pimps?”

If the Korean government and society has treated the comfort women like shit, it has nothing to do with what had happened to ex-comfort women. Why?
All it says is rather, if that is what Korean governmen has done to them, as ex-comfort women complained, that Korean government is shit.
I just don’t understand what you are trying to say here? Robert.

“Does the cravenness of Japanese leaders before the unrepentant Japanese far-right surpass their compassion for the victims of Japanese wartime sexual slavery?”
I am not sure what the unrepentant Japanese far-right you are talking about.
Could you be more specific?

But the compassion for the victims of brothels under Japanese rule is clear. Isn’t that why Koizumi made apology? Isn’t that why Abe confirmed what Kono said? Isn’t that why Japanese
government set up the funds?

“Hard evidence? Well, I guess not, assuming testimony by comfort women and former soldiers don’t count”
Could you give us which former soldiers are you talking about? Yoshida?

“Likewise, I have documentary evidence that suggests North Korea is abusing human rights, and I have to rely on contradictory, exaggerated and often politically motivated defector testimony.”

In case of North Korean defector testimony, If there are only testimonies and no other evidences that corroborate them, if there are evidences that contradict their testiomies, I would have good reason to doubt them. Coupled with other evidenence sush as animosity between North Korea and, say Japan, I would doubt if there are some political force behind the testimonies.

But in truth their testimonies are fresh , they are made soon after they defected, and there were rumors that confirms it, there is no documents north Korean government regulating people who are illegally abusing North Korean people. There are video in which people are executed for no reasons. There are other several reports that North Korean are starving. I assure you you have good reasons to believe them.

On the whole, Robert, in my impression , what you are saying, in a nutshell, is that people who shed doubt of authenticity of testimonies by ex-comfort women are Japanese ultra nationalists ,and nothing more—very little to argue against what Abe said–there is no backed up evidence to support the allegation that Japanese troop systematically kidnapped Korean women and made them prostitutes.

Correct me if I am wrong.
In particular, I would like to know which testimonies of former soldiers support your claim.

I am willing to change my opinion if there are persuasive arguments. But I will not be convinced by the weak argument which challenge the claim by
who said it.

I feel I should preface what I am about to say with this disclaimer: I am not trying to kiss up to Robert, the owner of this blog, because of his current stance on this issue, and God knows, he and I have disagreed and will disagree in the future about many other issues regarding Koreans. But having said that, I must address something gbevers wrote ro Robert:

These new rules are really limiting my commenting abilities…..haha.

Do you have any hard evidence that the Japanese “comfort women” system was “wartime sexual slavery” and not prostitution?

Hard evidence? Well, I guess not, assuming testimony by comfort women and former soldiers don’t count—and judging from the stuff that’s been going up at Occidentalism, I think this is a safe assumption. I have no documentary evidence that spells it out. Likewise, I have documentary evidence that suggests North Korea is abusing human rights, and I have to rely on contradictory, exaggerated and often politically motivated defector testimony.

And are you saying that there were no “unscrupulous Korean pimps”?

No, I’m not. Sure there were. And they were working for the unscrupulous Japanese military.

I have noticed that on this issue, Robert, you seem to be making inflamatory claims without even bothering to provide any hard evidence to back them up. I wish you would back up your claims with more than just snide remarks and question marks.

No offense, Gerry, but I won’t be lectured on making inflammatory claims by you or anyone posting on Occidentalism.

And so what if the Korean government and society has treated the comfort women like shit? Does that justify Japanese ultra-nationalists trying to repackage wartime sexual slavery as prostitution or, when that fails, passing the blame off onto unscrupulous Korean pimps?

Robert,

Do you have any hard evidence that the Japanese “comfort women” system was “wartime sexual slavery” and not prostitution? And are you saying that there were no “unscrupulous Korean pimps”?

I have noticed that on this issue, Robert, you seem to be making inflamatory claims without even bothering to provide any hard evidence to back them up. I wish you would back up your claims with more than just snide remarks and question marks.

Korean ultra-nationalist are trying to prevent the fund from receiving it.(If they received it, they think they couldn’t blame Japan anymore)

And we believe this because the head of said fund said so. Or course, it could be—like the case with comfort women in other countries—that they refused to take money from a fund set up so it could appear like the Japanese state wasn’t officially paying restitution in order to make Japanese ultra-nationalists happy.

Japanese are volunteering to help them when no Korean people were present at the funeral of comfort women, so ex-comfort women complain.

Or so says Ji Man-won, a right-wing former military officer with a perchance for bashing Korea in the Sankei Shimbun, quoting a woman who just so happened to be the head of another comfort women organization. And so what if the Korean government and society has treated the comfort women like shit? Does that justify Japanese ultra-nationalists trying to repackage wartime sexual slavery as prostitution or, when that fails, passing the blame off onto unscrupulous Korean pimps? At any rate, one would wonder whether the nice Japanese that attended comfort woman Park’s funeral would agree with either you or Prime Minister Abe.

Does the hatred toward Japan surpass the love for aging comfort women amont Koreans?

I don’t know. Does the cravenness of Japanese leaders before the unrepentant Japanese far-right surpass their compassion for the victims of Japanese wartime sexual slavery?