“You can spew all the Korean Dokdo BS bait you want because I am going to take your advice and not waste my time on you.”
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Looks like Mr. bevers is unable to find any supporting evidence on takeshima (lower cased due to the insignificance of that name). How typical of a japanophile.

You have no case for Dokdo Mr. bevers. The Meiji government of Japan acknowledged Korean ownership of the islands in 1877 and so did the Shogunate that existed prior to the Meiji. Japanese claims on the island are barely a century old compared to the Korean claim which is many centuries old. You can argue all you want but even government records from both the Shogunate and the Meiji disagrees with you.

Currently Korea controls and occupies Dokdo like it did since ancient times so you can whine all you want about delusional non existant Japanese claims. It won’t make a difference because it’s Korean then as it is Korean now.

Your accusations on comfort women are just as ignorant and twisted. The testimonials of a couple of “uneducated” and “manipulated” (key words uneducated and manipulated) are meaningless. The Japanese government for example were able to convince the Okinawans (who were also uneducated and manipulated) to kill themselves by claiming that the Americans would rape them and then barbecue their children alive. What transpired was the Okinawan mass suicides in which scores of women and children jumped off cliffs to avoid capture by the Americans. The Japanese to this day deny both the Comfort Women Issue as well as the Okinawan mass suicides despite both atrocities being common knowledge. You can only wonder why foreign media from America to Europe to Asia are always critical of Japanese historians and their lies.

The Japanese government made lie after lie to not only justify their rule but also their brutality. When they couldn’t justify it they would deny it. This is the Japan you so blindly defend mr bevers. If you were born as a Japanese person, I’m willing to bet you would be one of those black van driving Tojo supporters.

Maybe they also thought Japan winning the war would result in them being able to go home. Maybe bad news from the battlefield would result in Japanese soldiers being a foul mood when they visited for their comfort fix. Maybe being a colonial wartime sex worker, in the midst of a miliary/propaganda environment, has a way of brainwashing an “employee” after a while.

Just because there were Koreans involved in the wartime sex industry and have since had a dodgy prostitution system of their own, does not mean that the Japanese have no responsibility for comfort women - and a host of other attrocities - committed on their watch. (Polish, Croatian or Ukrainian collaborators do not diminish the evil committed by their Nazi masters in WWII, do they?)

As for Dokdo, I care about those birdshit covered rocks about as much as the average Japanese (i.e. not too much!) However, the Koreans do seem to care and presently have the islets, so why not let them keep them? Koreans should avoid the temptation of biting - they own Dokdo now, so screw what anybody else says/thinks - but nothing baits a resident of the peninsula like disputing their sovereignty over Dokdo. (You are aware of this, of course.)

#26. I’ve never said that; I’ve said they were mostly prostitutes. Comfort women were composed mostly of prostitutes of various nationalities at first. Japan stopped issuing visas for their prostitutes because apparently they tarnished the empire’s image. With that and the sources of prostitutes from other countries drying up, they turned to girls from their own colonies.

As I mentioned above, I have read some of the testimonies of Korea’s comfort women, and I remember one from a couple of years back who said that she and the other women she worked with used to to get excited and cheer when they got news of Japanese victories in the war. She excuses her actions by saying that she was young at the time and believed that she was Japanese. She said that she admitted this because she had to be honest about her feelings at the time.

There were probably many women, just like the woman I just mentioned, who thought that their service as comfort women not only benefited their families, but also their country, which just happened to be Japan at the time.

In the 1970s, Korean officials used to tell Korean prostitutes servicing US soldiers that they were also helping their country. In other words, they were told that screwing American soldiers was a patriotic act.

Also in the 1970s, I remember that Korean pimps used to lure young women from the provinces with ads in magazines promising good-paying jobs as waitresses in American clubs. When the girls arrived, they would quickly put them in debt and then was soon forced to pay off that debt by selling their bodies. If they tried to run away, the Korean police would help bring them back because they were indentured to their pimps. So even in the 1970s and ’80s, Korea had a sex slave system. That is probably one reason why the comfort women issue did not become an issue until the mid 1990s, after Korea had essentially started importing her “comfort women” from places like the Philippines.

Wow, that came out strange. I first started with, “If I were you, I’d…” but then changed it because I didn’t want to change the following sentence, which I felt was just right the way it was.

In any case Gbevers, there’s no need to be testy. I had apparently misjudged you because I was under the impression that occidentalism.org was yours. My apologies.