... so you believe s.korea is lying?
... and the purpose to lie is to what end?
From what I understand, the whole CW controversy started with Seiji Yoshida's fictional "memoirs" (He admitted as much)..
"He wrote "My war crimes", which is the origin of a dispute over comfort women 30 years after World War II; he admitted it was fictional in an interview with Shukan Shincho on May 29, 1996. [3] Later, his fictional work was used by George Hicks in his "The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War" en.wikipedia.org
Some people, including some very knowledgeable friends of mine who have done extensive first hand research on the subject, believe that this has been exploited by China, who would like to see the friction between Japan and S. Korea increase, for the purpose of wooing the Koreans into China's sphere of influence, or at the very least, creating issues for US foreign policy in the region.
Why have the assertions perpetuated?
Because once the claim has been made that Japan had kidnapped Korean women for their institutionalized, systemic, sex slavery racket (instead of highly paid prostitutes), they have to either perpetuate it, even if totally false, or admit that Korean men/families permitted (or even forced) their young women into prostitution..
This means that the Koreans acted as "pimps" for the Japanese army.. or that their Korean men folks permitted it.
And that represents a TREMENDOUS loss of face for them..
Kind of like Bejing not wanting to confess that between 30-45 million Chinese died during Mao's "Great Leap Forward" and "Cultural "Revolution"..
Btw, they also don't like to discuss the thousands of young Korean men SERVED in the Imperial Japanese Army during the war. And thousands more were turned away.. It was considered a highly sought path to social advancement for them to serve in the Japanese military.
Park Chung Hee, the former President of S. Korea was a graduate of the Imperial Military Academy who served in Manchuria..
Something Koreans also don't like to discuss..
Michael Yon wrote a series of articles on the issue. He has done extensive research and travel in pursuit of evidence to confirm/refute the CW issue. And he's come to the conclusion that no evidence exists for any systematic sex slavery system.. Women were volunteers (or "volunteered" by a family member, likely to pay off debts)..
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Oh.. and btw, if the Japanese enslaved Korean women, why didn't they enslave men into forced labor as they did so many people in the countries they conquered? Because they didn't "conquer" Korean.. It was one of their colonies and they were assimilating the Korean people.
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