06-15-2007 08:52
Ad on ‘Comfort Women’ Posted in US Paper
A group of Japanese legislators placed a U.S. newspaper ad Thursday defending the establishment of brothels during World War II and accused the "comfort women," many of them Korean, of distorting the facts, media reports said.
The full-page ad, carrying the names of 45 lawmakers, starts out by saying the purpose of this public comment is to present historical facts, Yonhap News Agency said.
"No historical document has ever been found by historians or research organizations that positively demonstrates that women were forced against their will into prostitution by the Japanese army," the paper was quoted as saying.
The "comfort women" claim that they were coerced, but their testimonies "have undergone dramatic changes" since the start of an anti-Japanese campaign, the ad said.
"Those who testified in a House of Representatives public hearing first reported that they were whisked away by brokers, but then later claimed that their abductors wore clothing that 'looked like police uniforms,'" it said.
The term comfort women refers to tens of thousands of females, mostly young girls, who were taken to frontline brothels to provide sex to Japanese soldiers during World War II. The majority were Koreans, whose country was under Japanese colonial rule at the time.
A resolution before the U.S. House demands Tokyo's unequivocal apology and acknowledgement of the existence of comfort women. The resolution has more than 120 co-sponsors, and the Korean-American community has been campaigning actively for its passage.
these slimy evil J-bastards never learn as they try to whitewash everything but the world already knows the TRUTH