... were there french men serving in the german military / para-military? ukrainian men? jewish men ? etc etc
if so, france, etc etc must have allowed the germans to do it to them, by your logic. Do you REALLY think the Nazis would trust "slave soldiers" with actual weapons?
These were volunteers, and I don't know of many, if any, Jews who were permitted, even if they actually volunteered. The Nazis would have rounded them up and sent them to the camps.
It's the same logic with the Japanese. They had a major fight on their hands with the Allies. Do you really think they had the spare resources to house and feed hundreds of thousands of sex slaves?
Why would they do that when there are many women who would do it voluntarily, or by coercion of their families who wanted the money?
There were very few cases of sex slavery, most notably some dutch women in Indonesia. I also recall Yon discussing that the Japanese officers involved in that case were prosecuted by their own military, but I would have to get that data for you..
Bottom line.. The Japanese were CERTAINLY responsible for any number of atrocities (and actually many of these Korean soldiers who served as prison guards are included as culprits)..
But there is no evidence (the US spent $30 million trying to find it) that the Japanese army forced women into sex slavery..
Did they facilitate the locals setting houses of prostitution? Certainly.. Hell, the US did the same thing in Hawaii.. And I'm sure the Chinese Nationalists did the same thing..
But when you're fighting a way, the last thing you're going to spend money on is feeding and housing sex slaves. Let their soldiers spend their salaries on prostitutes maybe, but certainly not be responsible for a bunch of women, especially in a colony they have ruled for the previous 20 years.
Korean men would have been in an uproar over this..
As for NK.. if there ever is another outbreak of hostilities, the refugees will be spilling over into China, not S. Korea.. |
