Those who occupied the ruling class called "Yangban" during the Joseon period of Korea (1392-1910) were neither obliged to work nor to pay taxes.
They enjoyed not only "exploitation of the lower class" and "unproductive life" but also affairs with Kisaeng (also spelled gisaeng), sometimes called ginyeo (기녀), were officially sanctioned Korean female entertainers or sometimes prostitutes.
Women of the Kisaeng class performed various roles fully recognized by the government of Korea. They were trained to entertain those in the ruling class at the special facilities established by the government of Korea. Not only serving to function as entertainers or prostitutes to the ruling class, they also performed diplomatic and military roles whenever necessary.
Major roles performed by the women of the Kisaeng classs:
1. They entertained the ruling class.
2. They entertained the Chinese missions with sexual services.
3. They were often shipped out as gifts to China.
4. They were ordered to live in the remote areas to entertain the Korean soldiers defending the borders.
The government of Korea had been viewed as "a large scale brothel" by China during the Joseon period of Korea.
A training school for the Kisaeng classs in Pyongyang, Korea
Too late now but if you meet at least the following condtions:
1. Deep apology to His Majesty the Emperor of Japan;
2. Return of Takeshima Island with compensation for the illegal occupation;
3. Accpeting Koreans (citizens of the Republic of Korea and of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea who illegally sneaked into Japan) to be repatriated by Japan;
4. Compensation for the damages incurred when the Republic of Korea invaded Takeshima;
5. Necessary punishment for those involved in repeated defamation of Japan and her people and apologies to Japan and her people;
6. Apologies to Japan and her people for having insulted the brave souls of the fallen soldiers enshrined at Yasukuni Shrine, ensuring that the Republic of Korea will never let anyone repeat insulting them;
7. Immediate reimbursement of Yen loans.
The above tweet has been selected as it well represents the general feelings Japanese people share towards the Republic of Korea.
The Republic of Korea must face history and must teach its people un-erasable history that Japan-Korea annexation in 1910 was properly executed with full recognition by the international community as it was done in accordance with international law.
Besides, no battles were fought between Japan and Korea in relation to the annexation except the fact that the 1st Prime Minister of Japan Ito was assassinated by a Korean terrorist named An Jung-geun, thereby realizing Japan-Korea annexation. Japan-Korea annexation of 1910 wouldn't have happened unless Prime Minister Ito regarded as a major obstacle to the annexation was assassinated.
The assassinated Prime Minister Ito, one of those well acquainted with the history of Korea and its culture had always opposed the annexation and also had insisted that Korea would no doubt be well controlled by Koreans themselves in view of its past when they once exhibited their talent.
Hirobumi Ito, four time Prime Minister of Japan (the 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th)
An Jung-geun, Korean terrorist who assassinated Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito in 1909.
Korea had been so miserable and uncivilized before Japan saved it from brutal China
Updated on August 6, 2014 at 8:15 the time when A-Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Pray for those non-combatants incl. babies who evaporated in Hiroshima massacre!
August 6 is not only one of the most important memorial days for the postwar Japan and her people but also it symbolizes despicable brutality of the white Americans still desperately groping for an answer to their guilt while USA exerts in vain every possible effort to water down the worst human rights violation in the history of mankind by all means to educate the whole world in cahoots with China and often with its puppet state called South Korea (created by USA on August 13, 1948 after seizure of the southern half of the Korean peninsula from Japan on September 8, 1945, who in fact liberated the entire Korea from brutal Chinese ruler when Japan defeated China in 1895 and defeated an agreesor Russia in 1905).
Whenever leftists in Japan refer to atomic bombings both Hiroshima and Nagasaki witnessed on August 6 and August 9, 1945 respectively, they outrageously leave out "who did it" but just say repeatedly "never be pardoned again". It really sounds like those responsible for Hiroshima and Nagasaki massacres have been forgiven by Japan and her people long ago. It strongly suggests that although they are regarded as leftists in Japan, they seem to have been either closely related to or influenced by USA trying to whitewash the carefully premeditated human experimentations carried out to prove the effectiveness of the white ruled USA (chiefly Jews who denounce "Holocaust" relentlessly executed by the Nazis.) -developed nuclear weapons and at the same time to demonstrate their superiority over the Japanese race who once hindered them from fully dominating Asia.
The East Asia has witnessed changes since the Greater East Asia War (also called the World War II or the Pacific War in USA) formally ended on September 2, 1945. Japan was placed under the military administration of the Allied Forces for about 6 years and 8 months from September 2, 1945 to April 28, 1952.
MacArthur, so-called Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers (SCAP) committed a crime of establishing the constitution and the fundamental law of education, violating the Hague Land War Convention that prohibits the occupation forces from enacting any laws being permanent in nature in the occupied areas while allowing them to exercise very strong authority to control the occupied areas by giving such orders as agricultural land reform order, Zaibatsu dissolution order, etc. being temporary in nature to those in the occupied areas. More importantly, US-led Tokyo Trials (formally called The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) was concurrently held from April 29, 1946 to November 12, 1948, thereby threatening the leaders of Japan, Japanese politicians, and the ordinary citizens at gunpoint. In other words, the post war Japan started with life threatening terror orchestrated by the white-ruled USA who arrested and purged anyone found to be disobeying or running counter to the basic design of the post war Japan crafted by the white-ruled USA.
Just before the Tribunal was adjourned on November 12, 1948, the white ruled USA created its puppet state called "the Republic of Korea on August 13, 1948, whose basic national policy is to pursue anti-Japan, so as to ensure that the white-ruled USA would control Japan and South Korea in an old fashioned way of "divide and rule". Thus, the post war regime was fully set up for US to control Japan and South Korea.
The following statement shows a true nature of General Douglas MacArthur:
The Allied power will never recognize Japan as being equal in every respect. As Japan is our enemy who lost the war, she has no rights to occupy any position in the civilized world. We will not negotiate with Japan.
The above statement was issued in reply to the article published on September 15, 1945 by The Asahi Shinbun.
As long as the United States of America champions “Power is justice.”, she will not refuse to accept her own violations of international laws and war crimes as evidenced in the use of the Atomic bombs, massacres of the innocent civilians, indiscriminate attacks on hospital ships, and the use of poisonous gases.
We will make the Americans observe terrible spectacles of the bombed areas as much as possible and will make them realize that they should nurture their own sense of responsibilities for compensation and reconstruction by means of sincerely revealing the fact that Japan alone will never envision reconstruction and also by placing an emphasis on our determination that we will make them recognize Japan’s democratic recovery and her participation in international trade as being nothing disagreeable to the US interests and also to the international wellbeing, thereby making them actively cooperate with Japan in reconstruction. by Mr. Ichiro Hatoyama -end of the translation.
Since September 18, 1945, the Japanese media ceased to report anything which General MacArthur might consider damaging to the interests of the allied power, followed by an order for the Japanese media to observe the code of practice issued on September 19, 1945, by which MacArthur scrutinized every article before publication.
MacArthur had already ordered The Associated Press (AP) not to report anything the Allied power might find damaging to its interests on September 1, 1945, one day before the official ceremony of Japan's surrender aboard the USS Missouri.
Therefore, September 18, 1945 is another substantially significant date that US actually began its brainwashing activities in Japan under "War Guilt Information Program=WGIP" executed by MacArthur, trying to make the entire Japanese population believe that only Japan is bad and wrong in every respect while US and its allies are good and right in every respect.
One of the foreign journalists who were arrested and deported by MacArthur was Mark J. Gayn well known in Japan for his book titled "Japan Diary" first published in 1948. He was critical of US bombings and Tokyo Trials condemned as "travesty of justice". He wrote, ''As a newspaperman, I feel incensed every time I hear of violence done to the free press. But as a citizen of a democratic state I also see each such instance as a denial of my right to know, and therefore of my ability to understand the world in which we live.''
Finally, two of the recent US efforts, inter alia, to palliate the infamous human rights violation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki massacres are a story of comfort women and a story of Nanking massacre known as those fabricated in cahoots with leftists in Japan, therefore, allowing USA to enjoy its arrant pride in the achievement done by B29 Enola Gay that dropped A-bomb on Hiroshima and that has been shamelessly displayed at the U.S Air and Space Museum.
A South Korean newspaper ad dated September 14, 1961 for "Comfort Women" to serve UN forces
The above advertisement that appeared on The Dong-A Ilbo dated September 14, 1961 says, The Government of South Korea has decided on September 13, 1961 to implement "registeration of comfort women" who wish to serve the United Nation Forces .
Note: The Dong-A Ilbo (Hangul: 동아일보; Hanja: 東亞日報, literally East Asia Daily) is the leading newspaper in Korea since 1920 with daily circulation of more than 1.2 million and opinion leaders as its main readers.
"Comfort Women" movement in South Korea was sponsored by the Japan Socialist Party, which I confirmed through my direct interview with South Korean comfort women. I personally witnessed one of aides to Ms. Takako Doi, then chairperson of the Japan Socialist Party handing over cash to them----. Quite natural that everything has been politically twisted around.
The above photo shows part of the area used as the US storage depot in Kokura during the Korean war.
US brutal act during occupation of Japan No. 4 has been written to portray US as a criminal state that committed serious crimes against humanity twice in one single incident involving the black GIs stationed in Japan during 7 year occupation of Japan, so reminding US government that US past is not so glorious as US has long preached to its people, particularly to its kids at schools.
At midnight on the 11th of July, 1950, 200 to 250 black GIs armed to the teeth deserted US storage depot (which was the stronghold defended by the 14th Infantry Regiment of the Great Imperial Japanese Army during the Greater East Asia War, often called either the WWII or the Pacific War in the West) situated approximately 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from Japan National Railway Kokura station. Those black soldiers were transferred here from Gifu Prefecture a day before with an order to be soon deployed on the frontlines of the Korean peninsula where the North Korean forces crossed 38 degree parallel into South Korea almost a month earlier. They were so terrified at the imminent deployment on the frontlines of the Korean peninsula and at the same time deeply felt that they had to evade their unfair deployment due to the racial discrimination not only in the US society but also in the military services in those days.
They knew that they would face capital punishment possibly to be handed down at the military tribunal if caught. They were desperately escaping from the fear of death they would face both on the front lines and at the military tribunal. They formed about 50 heavily armed groups of bandits, each of whom consisted of 4 to 5 men went dispersed in different directions into Kokura city.
They had rampantly looted the Japanese houses, had violently injured the innocent and defenseless Japanese civilians and had brutally raped the innocent Japanese women including housewives just nearby their children and husbands witnessing their brutal acts for 4 days until they were suppressed by US forces after fierce exchange of fire between them.
Only 70 crime cases were reported to and confirmed by the Japanese police because many of the victims were reluctant to complaint about their shameful experiences and because the supreme commander General MacArthur ordered Japan not to report on the brutal incident.
Immediately after they were suppressed and arrested, they were sent to the Korean peninsula where most of them died for the United States of America.
Seichō Matsumoto (松本 清張, Matsumoto Seichō, December 21, 1909 – August 4, 1992) was a Japanese writer who published 黒地の絵 "Kuroji no e" in 1958, written based on the incident as he was a citizen born in Kokura city where the incident occurred. In his book, he focused on a husband whose wife was brutally raped right near him and who soon became insane while Matsumoto never forgot to defend the black soldiers as victims of the racial discrimination in the US military services.
A photo below shows the cenotaph of the 14th Infantry Regiment of the Great Imperial Japanese Army in the area used as the US storage depot during the Korean war.
As far as I have observed international criticism and disapproval of Japan's position on "comfort women" issue, it is a step to further justify victors' justice and to implicitly strengthen their political position over Japan while intentionally failing to understand a true motive hidden behind the issuance of Kono remark on "comfort women".
The Government of Japan should assume responsibilies for having given a wrong impression to the international community that Japan admitted forced recruitment of so-called comfort women. Those Japanese politicians and bureaucrats not fully aware of realities in international politics inadvertently recommended Kono to issue it (Kono remark prepared by those bureaucrats) without giving due consideration to the ensuing consequences, so as to pacify the govt of south korea always acting like a peevish kid who in fact jumped on a story of "comfort women" as the bandwagon soon after it was fabricated by Japanese leftists.
Japanese politicians and bureaucrats in those days somehow thought that "comfort women" issue could be taken as another way for the govt of south korea to ask Japan (as a father) for monetary assistance and/or as something rather close to a domestic affair between Japan and south korea. It strongly suggests that they were under the impression that south korea had been closely related to Japan since Japan-Korea annexation in 1910.
More precisely, they were tricked by the govt of south korea to believe that the govt of south korea would no longer harass Japan over the issue once Japan somehow pretended to admit Japan's fault (Note: Neither the Government of Great Imperial Japan nor the Great Imperial Japanese Army was involved in coercing comfort women into the plight the govt of south korea has been hassling about since no evidence to substantiate its claim has been presented.), in hopes that Japan-south korea relations would improve.
General Toshio Tamogami (田母神 俊雄, Tamogami Toshio, born July 22, 1948)is a retired Japanese Air Self-Defense Force career military officer. He served as the Chief of Staff of Japan's Air Self-Defense Force from March 2007 to November 2008.
Those who either criticize or disaprove of Osaka Mayor's statements on "comfort women" are often found to be ignorant about history since they have not fully studied it. And, they are not aware that they have acted against Japan, thereby harming her national interests much greater than Mayor Hashimoto has done. Besides, they are inadvertently supporting south korea while downgrading Japan.
The government of south korea has never reflected on its deeds such as raping the innocent Vietnamese village girls during the Vietnam war. They are just keeping a lid on such an issue as Lai Dai Han (lai Đại Hàn in Vietnamese : pronounced [laːi ɗâˀi hâːn] Korean: 라이따이한, meaning a mixed ancestry person born to a south korea rapist and a Vietnamese victim) considered as the victims of rapes by Korean soldiers during the Vietnam War lest they get accused of (by the international community). And, the US forces had the pleasure of being allied with south korean forces as genocide criminals and rapists. After the Greater East Asia War (called either the Pacific War or the World War II in the West), "establishment of comfort stations" was the first order given to the defeated Japan by the US forces dispatched to Japan.
During the Vietnam war, south korean forces had no comfort stations established for their soldiers. However, they raped a few hundred of thousand innocent Vietnamese girls, some of whom were brutally murdered by them. As a result, tens of thousands of mixed ancestry persons (whose exact number has not been confirmed yet but whose number is currently estimated to be roughly 30,000 at most) born to south korean rapists and Vietnamese victims. After the war, they have been just deserted by them. This fact is so palpable that the government of south korea can't deny it.
Binh Hoa Massacre Monument called "Deep Hatred over Massacre committed by South Korean Forces"
Deep Hatred Monument Over Massacre Committed by South Korean Forces whose inscription says as follows;
Sins have reached to the heavens.
And, they shall be remembered for thousands of years.
430 villagers victimized in this massacre.
The victims included pregnat women, the elderly aged between 50 and 80, and children.
2 people killed in this massacre were thrown into fire when they were still alive..
The Bình Hòa Massacre was a massacre conducted by the South Korean forces between December 3 and December 6, 1966, of 430 unarmed citizens in Binh Hoa village, Quang Ngai province in South Vietnan. The district was in the operational area of the Blue Dragon Brigade. Most of the victims were children, elderly and women.The victims included 21 pregnant women.The South Korean soldiers burnt down all of the houses and killed hundreds of cows and buffalo after the atrocities.Then the survivors joined the Viet Cong and fought against the United States and its Allies, one of which was South Korea. The South Korean forces conducted similar massacres in Binh Tai village, Binh An village and Tay Vinh village within the same year.
Korean Soldiers in Vietnam Posing for A Snapshot ベトナム戦争に参加した韓国兵士
This photo tells us much more than a historical fact that South Korea fought in Vietnam, catering for the needs of the United States of America. That is how brutal Koreans were during the Vietnam War. They look like "Predators" seen in the American movie. You can count how many ROK soldiers are in the photo. They are all smiling. They are smiling after the victory, in which they brutally killed Vietnamese and cut their ears off and then strung them onto the wire for completing a sort of “Hawaiian Flower (Ears) Lei”. South Korea has never apologized to Vietnam for their brutality including raping thousands of women. They left thousands of orphans behind.
When the US forces occupied Japan and demanded Japan to establish "comfort stations" after the Greater East Asia War (called either the Pacific War or the World War II), Geisha girls courageously stood up for the innocent Japanese girls, trying to prevent them from being raped by the US soldiers. It is a known fact that Geisha girls in those days had a great spirit of defending the Japanese nationals from evils.
Ted traveled to 59 countries where I was exposed to different cultures & recognized some of them irreconcilable. However, I dare attempt to mitigate them.
@TedYokohama I was using “denier” to mean you are questioning the official story. Not many characters in tweets.
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@cosleia Not denying comfort women but trying to rectify what most of you believe to be true about comfort women as reported & distorted by biased media. @t_ishin
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@cosleia Comfort women existed as prostitutes. No evidence shows Japanese Army was involved in such a manner as biased media report. @t_ishin
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Today, I happened to talk to a Japanese woman aged 97 who has lived in a home for the aged for 8 years or so. She still reads newspapers and watches TV news programs every day. Her interest ranges from home economics to international political issues. She is well versed in every subject the average Japanese adults find interested in.
She all of a sudden started to talk about "comfort women" now drawing public interest in Japan, obviously knowing that Osaka Mayor Hashimoto's repeated statements on "comfort women" have stirred up criticism and disapproval from overseas.
She recalls that in 1940s no one had ever questioned about parents selling their daughters for the sake of alleviating poverty since there existed no such a system publicly established as to extend help to the poor families both in Japan and in Korea.
Daughters sold to brothels or others were well aware that their families would not survive if they refused to be sold. It was not a matter of willingly or unwillingly at all but it was a matter of helping their families to survive.
None denies that some women were tricked into prostitution by swindlers or even by their neighbors. None denies that some women were abducted and sold to brothels. However, neither the Government of Japan nor Imperial Japanese Army was involved in forcing them into prostitution, contrary to what some Japanese leftists claim in collaboration with the government of south korea.
"Comfort women" had felt better off and had found it joyful and fulfilling to serve as professional prostitutes, thinking that they were supporting their families. However, nothing changed the fact that they were virtually sold as prostitutes in a sense that swindlers found loopholes in the laws being enforced since 1872. One of the typical loopholes often used among swindlers was to conclude a loan agreement allowing the poor parents to receive advance payment as a means of evading compliance with the laws that formally prohibited human trafficking. They viewed this practice not as slavery or any sort in a western sense but as a way to pay back debts to them as loan sharks. There were cases in which those involved in this sort of business had been found guilty of violating the laws.
The most important thing we must keep in our mind when dealing with an issue of "comfort women" is that we must examine the issue in terms of the historical context, in which the prevailing concepts of human rights and human rights violations were practically non-existent in the world, or at least not as much as we emphasize them now, particularly as seen in the United States of America that still struggles with a number of the worst examples of human rights violations.
The above photo shows the travelling Korean comfort women joyfully crossing a river. The term "Comfort Women" is a translation of the Japanese word 慰安婦 pronounced ianfu, a euphemism for the word prostitute.
The Dong-a Ilbo reports on rampant abduction of more than 100 Chinese girls by Korean swindlers (those agents engaged in recruiting personnel) from villages in Mukden, Manchukuo on August 31, 1939. Police investigators have been immediately dispatched to Mukden from Busan, Korea.
Many articles of this sort have been found in Japan, informing the public that police was determined to eradicate abduction of girls both in Korea and in China.
Notes:
1.The Dong-A Ilbo (literally East Asia Daily) is the leading newspaper in Korea, established in 1920, 10 years after Japan-Korean annexation. 2. The Great Empire of Manchuria was established in 1932 and continued to exist until 1945.
@profLind @yukipo_3 @jan_banning @AhnSehong The following is one of the tweets by Noah Smith
@Noahpinion Toru Hashimoto is right; Americans DID abuse Japanese women during the occupation: arabnews.com/news/451980 My grandfather saw it firsthand.
The above photo shows one of the comfort stations established specifically for US servicemen since Japan had to obey any order US occupation forces issued. The comfort station in the photo was located at Yasuura, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Before further disclosing US brutal acts in Japan during US occupation of Japan, readers should be exposed to the overstrain the Government of Japan had experienced after Japan faced a major defeat on August 15, 1945. It was not during the Great East Asia War (called either the Pacific War or the World War II in the West) but only during US occupation of Japan after Japan's major defeat that the Government of Japan had to get itself involved in establishing "comfort stations" as it was ordered by General Headquarters, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (hereinafter referred to as "GHQ") on September 28, 1945.
The order given by GHQ specifically instructed Japan to establish "comfort stations "for officers and other servicemen stationed in the Kanto plain.
Despite Japan's efforts to protect the Japanese women from the sexual assaults, including initial allocation of national budget (JPY 50 million equivalent to USD 1 billion at the current value) to the establishment of "comfort stations", a huge number of the Japanese women had been raped by the US occupation forces until Japan recovered its sovereignty on April 28, 1952. One must remember that the amount of JPY 50 million meant "astronomical costs" Japan had to bear just for satisfying sexual desire of US sercivemen when Japan's economy was almost completely devastated by unnecessary and relentless US carpet bombing on civilian targets throughout Japan, not to mention Hiroshima and Nagasaki massacres.
Believe it or not, "raping" had begun as soon as US occupation forces (US Marines) landed on Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan on August 30, 1945.
In the first place, the United States or every other nation in the world is not qualified to criticize Japan over the issues related to sex and war.
Mr. Eichi Isomura, President of Toyo University recalls that during US occupation he was told to appear at General Headquarters, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers by a US officer when he was a headman of Shibuya Ward, Tokyo and was ordered to recruit Japanese girls for US servicemen and to establish a facility called "recreation center".
He deeply regrets and is so ashamed that he had to cooperate with US in having driven the Japanese girls into the corner where they had to serve as comfort women for the US servicemen. -The Sankei Shinbun (a Japanese newspaper) dated September 17, 1996.
Mr. Shumon Miura, President of The Japan Art Academy (placed under The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), known for his moderate character and high intelligence, states that during the US occupation US forces cordoned off some designated areas by mobilizing MPs and Japanese police, so as to remand any girls in those areas into their custody. Then, they examined those girls to see if they were infected with sexual diseases. Some of the girls were not prostitutes but were held in their custody for medical checkups. They were naturally raped. Every single criminal act committed by US forces were buried in darkness. -The Sankei Shinbun (a Japanese newspaper) dated August 2, 1996.)
The Dong-a Ilbo reports on rampant abduction of more than 100 Chinese girls by Korean swindlers (those agents engaged in recruiting personnel) from villages in Mukden, Manchukuo on August 31, 1939. Police investigators have been immediately dispatched to Mukden from Busan, Korea.
Notes:
1.The Dong-A Ilbo (literally East Asia Daily) is the leading newspaper in Korea, established in 1920, 10 years after Japan-Korean annexation.
2. The Great Empire of Manchuria was established in 1932 and continued to exist until 1945.
Regarding some girls cheated into "comfort women" by some swindlers, Mr. Hiroo Onoda states; I often heard that on the Korean peninsula there were swindlers triking girls into prostitution. I really feel sorry for those girls who were scammed by those swindlers. Some frauds cheated girls into working as prostitutes by telling them that they would become"war nurses" while some girls cheated soldiers and non-commissioned officers into paying "surcharge" by telling them "I am a graduate of girls high school." There were quite few soldiers who trusted what those girls told them.
War Nurses serving the Great Imperial Japanese Forces
Mr. Hiroo Onoda, Second Lieutenant and Intelligence Officer, Great Imperial Japanese Army大日本帝国陸軍
Mr. Hiroo Onoda as a recruit Mr. Hiroo Onoda as a Japan's national "Hero"
On December, 1944, Mr. Hiroo Onoda was given an order from Lieutenant general Mr. Shizuo Yokoyama, which says "You are not allowed to commit a suicidal attack. Keep on fighting for three years or four years until I come back here. Keep on fighting as long as you have a soldier left to fight for you. Eat coconuts and keep on fighting with your soldiers. I repeat you are not allowed to commit a suicidal attack."
As ordered, Second Lieutenant Mr. Hiroo Onoda had kept on fighting with his soldiers until he was given an order by Major Mr. Yoshimi Taniguchi on behalf of General Mr. Tomoyuki Yamashita on March 9, 1974to cease fightingand to contact either U.S. forces or Philippines forces and to follow their instructions.
Below is a photo showing "Korean Comfort Women" submitted by South Korea, trying to prove that they were forced by the Great Imperial Japanese Army during the last war. However, they are actually prostitutes who gave sexual pleasure to the US forces servicemen stationed in South Korea during the Korean War. Just look at the walls and find English words such as Off-Limit and Keep out. The Great Imperial Japanese Army never used English as it was considered as a hostile tongue of Japan's enemy. After all, South Koreans are parasites, so that they will never antagonize the strong ones like U.S., etc.
The article "Why Japan and South Korea Are Feuding Over a Cluster of Rocks" recently published by The Newsweek shows some understanding, although basically limited to mere enumeration of banal facts of the territorial issue, of the historically significant irritant created during the U.S. occupation of Japan. It has failed to reveal and describe the differences between Japanese and Western perspectives of Japan-Korean relations in the historical context of the substantial and imminent Western threat to the existence of Japan, China, and Korea in the late 19th century and in the early 20th century.
Japan has constantly and consistently maintained low posturing on Takeshima for decades, mainly due to her deep concern that apparent re-surfacing of Takeshima issue in the Sea of Japan would only aggravate Japan-South Korea relation, consequently jeopardizing fragile security and stability during the Cold War and now would weaken Japan's most important alliance with the United States in the face of the growing threats from China and North Korea.
Japan has been extremely patient and calm despite a number of outrageous deeds done and words uttered by South Korea against Japan on many occasions. It is fully recognized here in Japan that South Korea has often behaved rude to Japan, obviously reflecting its definite anti-Japan policy Syngman Rhee, the first president of South Korea began to implement for the first time in the history of Korea in 1948, with due attention paid to the directives from U.S.A. , weathering storms in the Sea of Japan and in the Yellow Sea. His anti-Japan policy has been uninterruptedly handed down, one after another, even to the incumbent president Park Geun-hye whose father was Park Chung-hee, president of South Korea who ruled South Korea under his dictatorship from 1963 to 1979.
Notwithstanding their rudeness and delinquency, Japan has resolutely and calmly sought to establish mutually beneficial relationship with South Korea by technically and economically assisting the country for its path to the economic development in hopes that Japan would fully achieve peace and prosperity for all in the region.
In other words, South Korea has defined Japan as its enemy and has accordingly brainwashed its population into thinking that Japan had destroyed the Korean culture and had often stolen the Korean natural resources during 35 years (Koreans often claim that the annexation lasted for 36 years for unknown reasons) of Japan-Korea annexation. Therefore, a term "frenemy" used in the Newsweek article seems quite misleading to its readers.
By passing the buck to Japan, both North and South Koreas, and U.S.A. , including the Japanese leftists and/or the Koreans shamelessly still residing in Japan despite their clear manifestation of resentment toward Japan and her people are trying to find their justification for the rights to either militarily or non-militarily occupy Japan.
Japan was neither a colonialist nor an invader. Japan-Korea annexation treaty of 1910 was internationally recognized as a lawful one over which no western powers have ever cast any doubts. Unlike many Asian nations colonized by the West, Korea was neither colonized nor exploited by Japan during the period of 1910 to 1945. The entire procedure was carried out in a peaceful manner since Korea was a party who requested Japan to annex Korea lest it would be colonized by either Russia or the western powers.
Moreover, 70 million Japanese population was fully exploited by Koreans in a sense that they had to bear the tax increase that had generated JPY 20.7897 billion (JPY 63 trillion at the current value) from 1907 to 1944, all of which had been spent on modernization of the Korean peninsula. These figures do not include the budget required for the Japanese personnel, military forces, including weapons, etc. Besides, Japan fully paid for the natural resources imported from the peninsula.
South Korea has continued to deceive the whole world by publicly blaming Japan that Japan brutally exploited Korea during Japan-Korea annexation while in fact still benefitting from Japan's achievement in the country. To show a few of data indicating how much Japan contributed to improvement of Korea after annexation, Japanese private companies constructed 11 hydroelectric dams whose total generating capacity was 1,470,000 kwh. In 1912, Korea had only 27,525 households who used electricity. By 1939, the number of households using electric lights increased to 2,063,708.
In the area of education, Japan placed greater emphasis on the primary education because practically no school existed in Korea before annexation, quite contrary to what South Korea teaches children at schools now, using the textbook saying that Korea had already 5,000 schools in 1905. In fact, Japan established 4,271 elementary schools throughout Korea by 1943 and some high schools and one national university now called "Seoul University".
Japan's past achievement in Korea ranges from rice cultivation to the industrial complexes considered highly sophisticated in those days, including promotion and popularization of Hangul writing system, etc. Simply speaking, Korea was such a backward country as brutally ruled and oppressed by China before Japan defeated China in 1895. Koreans were in fact fully deprived by China of its right to live like humans. No historical evidence shows that Japan has caused grievances as much as the Koreans believe entitled to defame Japan and her people by making vulgar remarks on His Majesty the Emperor of Japan. Rather, Korea was highly motivated to propose annexation to Japan since she showed off power said to be stronger than China and Russia before 1910.
Watch this video showing Korea before and after Japan-Korea annexation in 1910
Read a note below for the written information on the video
The Newsweek article treats Japan and South Korea as the same frenemies, almost like classifying Japan into a group of rogue states such as both Koreas. It further offends Japan and her people by suggesting that Japan has done something quite offensive to Korea in the last 100 years.
Since Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Repulic of Korea was signed on June 22, 1965 in Tokyo, Japan has technically and economically assisted South Korea whenever the country has faced difficulties. By concluding the treaty, Japan decided to extend technical and economic assistance in the form of ODA (Official Development Assistance) and of money gift (to congratulate The Republic of Korea on its independence) to South Korea designated as one of the poorest nations in Asia in those days. Aso, Japan finally had to waive Japan's right to the national assets estimated by Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers to be USD 5.3 billion (not at the current value) and Japanese private assets left in the Korean peninsula because they had been found already confiscated by both the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union.
Most importantly, every evidence including the San Francisco Peace Treaty signed in 1951 storngly supports Japan's assertion that Takeshima has been historically an integral part of Japan. Besides, she has never given up Takeshima islets before, during, and after the negotiation of the treaty of 1965 between Japan and a newly born country, South Korea. And, South Korea neither mentioned nor brought up "Comfort Women" issue before, during and after the negotiation. However, it was 1982 when Yuto Yoshida (better known as Seiji Yoshida in Japan), a Japanese writer and former soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army, published his memoir, admitting that he was involved in forcing the Korean women into comfort women which later was confirmed to be false by both Japan and South Korea through detailed investigations. No evidence has been produced to substantiate South Korea's claim that the Imperial Japanese Army had actually forced them into "Comfort Women".
It has to be emphasized here that Koreans have become habitually disrespectful of bilateral agreements with such a highly respected nation as Japan once they have secured material benefits from the agreements.
Finally Japan should propose to the U.S. government that both countries, if the U.S. truly and faithfully regards Japan as a full-fledged independent nation, sit together and discuss major differences between historical perspectives as seen in the Greater East Asia war vs. the Pacific war.
Notes: A notorious example depicting the Korean diplomats' behavior as being incomprehensibly rude is that as soon as Japanese diplomats unexpectedly brought up Takeshima issue during the diplomatic talk, the Korean diplomats suddenly stood up and actually turned the table upside down. Suppose you are working as a diplomat. How will you react if your counterpart all of a sudden stands up and turns a negotiating table upside down?
A Brief History - Takeshima Invasion by ROK: During the period of January 18, 1952 (date of unilateral establishment of Syngman Rhee Line) to June 22, 1965 (signing date of Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea), 328 Japanese fishing vessels were captured and 3,929 fishermen were abducted by South Korea. And, 44 Japanese fishermen were brutally murdered by South Korea. Besides, South Korea used abducted fishermen as a bargaining chip for negotiating with Japan on the Treaty.
Before annexation 1. Seoul was almost like nothing but some poor villages.
2. Korean women wore traditional clothes with their breasts exposed. Only women who gave birth to a son were permitted to wear the special attire. Those women were so proud of wearing this attire with their breasts sticking out in the public.
After annexation 1. The city of Seoul was modernized with street cars, department stores, electricity, sewage system, railway system, dams, industrial complex, etc.
2. Japan placed much emphasis on education by establishing thousands of schools throughout the Korean peninsula. Japan developed text books in Hangul and popularized Hangul in Korea because only a few percents of the population was educated.
The above is only a small portoin of Japan's contributions to the development of the Korean peninsula which both South Korea and North Korea have so far denied.
With what you have just watched in your mind, read what's written below and you will have some idea of what is true and what is not.
Mr. Kim Man Cheol (金満哲) stated about his own country and people is True? This is a question being often asked by many Japanese bloggers, which I recently came across. I will tentatively translate his statement into English since a large number of the Japanese bloggers have shown a keen interest in his description of South Korea and its people.
South Korean Critic Mr. Kim Mǎn Zhe 金満哲 says:My people, South Koreans are all liars. I feel so ashamed of this fact and find it regrettable.
South Korea has been modernized all by itself? Don't be stupid! The modernization of South Korea has been achieved by Japan with an input of enormous investment and human resources into our country.
South Korea resisted the Japanese administration during 36 years of annexation? You must be kidding! My people South Koreans have willingly submitted themselves to the Japanese administration like donkeys. That is how it really was. Although there was very small resistance, everyone from top to bottom had admired Japan and had tried to become Japanese.
I was so shocked and became speechless to know that South Koreans believe in the achievement of South Korea's independence all by itself. No Koreans desired to be independent from Japan but the United States of America forced us to become independent. It is a truth.
"Hangang Miracle!" Don't make me laugh! The economic development of South Korea has been achieved with an enormous amount of economic and technical assistance extended by Japan under the name of compensations. Any uncivilized people would have achieved economic growth if assisted as much as we have.
The Japanese culture has grown out of Korea? You really must be kidding? Just remember that we had no culture at all before Korea was annexed to Japan! Before 1910 annexation, our peninsula was filled with the people living like beggars.
The present Korea is a house built on sand not even built by us but built by others. And, the house is full of vainglory, hypocrisy, distortion and arrogance. All we can see here are mimic, dependency and distortion.
Without realizing what the true qualities of Korea are, it seems that Koreans both in South Korea and in Japan must have lost their minds. I have to admit that the whole thing is nothing but shame.
The following is a description of South Korea and its people in Japanese by Mr. Kim Man Cheol (金満哲) .
Note: The economic growth South Korea achieved in 1970s is called "Hangang Miracle". The above article is subject to change whenever the author finds it necessary to add, correct, delete, etc.
If Koreans wish to ban hoisting of our Rising Sun flag just because Koreans hate to see our Rising Sun flag flying high, South Korean flag shouldn't be banned as well? South Korean flag really makes me disgusted just to think of it. I don't know why I get the chills just looking at the logo of Pepsi.
The above is not Rising Sun Flag but it looks similar to it. It is in fact company flag of Asahi-Shinbun (a well-known newspaper company established on January 25, 1879.) , and many believe that Asahi-Shinbun has been quite critical of Japan since 1945 when it was ordered to suspend reporting activities for a few days by General Douglas MacArthur after it reported on U.S. atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the U.S. occupation. Many wonder how Koreans will react to the flag, considering the fact that Asahi-Shinbun is one of those responsible for fabricating a story of "Comfort Women" in collaboration with leftists (mostly Koreans) in Japan.
Those who, although possessing Japanese citizenship, have been engaged in dragging down Japan, must be thoroughly condemned. I am not proposing witch hunt but I am reminding you that Japan's rights have been infringed on by anti-Japan witches for long time. Ex-Chairman Ms. Takako Doi, Japan Socialist Party (now reduced to a minor party called the Social Democratic Party) strongly asserted that no Japanese had been abducted by North Korea. And, her successor Ms. Mizuho Fukushima, now Chairman of the Social Democratic Party fabricated a story that the Imperial Japanese Army forced Koreans into "comfort women".
Ceux qui, bien que possédant la nationalité japonaise, ont été engagés dans glisser vers le bas le Japon, doivent être soigneusement condamné. Je ne propose pas la chasse aux sorcières, mais je vous rappelle que les droits du Japon a été porté atteinte sur par les anti-japonaises sorcières pour longtemps. Ex-président Mme Takako Doi, le Japon Parti socialiste (maintenant réduit à un petit parti appelé le Parti social-démocrate) a affirmé qu'aucun japonais avaient été enlevés par la Corée du Nord. Et, son successeur Mme Mizuho Fukushima, aujourd'hui président du Parti social-démocrate fabriqué une histoire que l'armée impériale japonaise en esclavage les femmes coréennes comme femmes de réconfort.
Ex-Chairman Ms. Takako Doi, Japan Socialist Party who strongly asserted that no Japanese had been abducted by North Korea.
Ex-président Mme Takako Doi, le Japon Parti socialiste (maintenant réduit à un petit parti appelé le Parti social-démocrate) a affirmé qu'aucun japonais avaient été enlevés par la Corée du Nord.
Does she look like a witch? If not a witch, she is at least a socialist. Est-ce qu'elle ressemble à une sorcière? Si ce n'est pas une sorcière, elle est au moins un socialiste.
Ms. Mizuho Fukushima, now Chairman of the Social Democratic Party fabricated a story that the Imperial Japanese Army forced Koreans into "comfort women". Mme Mizuho Fukushima, aujourd'hui président du Parti social-démocrate fabriqué une histoire que l'armée impériale japonaise en esclavage les femmes coréennes comme femmes de réconfort.
Does she also look like a witch? If not a witch, she is at least a socialist. Est-ce qu'elle ressemble à une sorcière? Si ce n'est pas une sorcière, elle est au moins un socialiste.
The article I've just finished reading describes why South Korean pres. Lee decided to land on Takeshima islets on August 10 and later made insulting remarks on His Majesty the Emperor of Japan.
The article focuses on five reasons; 1. Failure to achieve Japan and South Korea cultural exchange project, 2. Higher recognition of a theory of declining power of Japan and U.S. within South Korea, 3. Imminent arrest of president Lee for bribery charges, 4.Possible violation of a decision on so-called "Comfort Women" made by Constitutional Court of South Korea, and 5. Failure to improve economic conditions.
South Korean president Lee has been afraid of ending his presidential tenure with no achievements. To avoid either the imminent arrest or being called incompetent president after he steps down as president of South Korea, he dared to brake a promise to keep status quo of Takeshima issue with Japan and at the same time insulted Japan and her people by making vulgar remarks on His Majesty the Emperor of Japan.
The article concludes that Japan should be better united with Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Mongolia, India, etc. by giving up an idea of emphasizing friendship with Seoul, and that Lee will be remembered as the president who has achieved the worst diplomatic relations ever recorded with Japan in the history of bilateral relations.
South Koreans or Southerners brag about "We've become a major economic power!"(LOL) Just think for a moment! How could the major economic power send out prostitutes all over the world? It is said that there are 50,000 South Korean prostitutes (Koreanympho=Comfort women) in Japan. They are Korean street girls, Korean girls providing sexual services at Massage Parlors, etc. who have well inherited DNA of "Comfort Women"= Prostitutes from their ancestors during the wars. Their prostitution is undoubtedly hereditary.
In reality, there was a case in which an ordinary foreigner was deported just because he shoplifted. But there has been no case of deportation of Koreans (citizens of either North or South) living in Japan regardless of what they have done, if they have committed murders, rapes, arsons or whatever. Just to name a few. They are just sent to jails. But soon they come out and commit crimes again. Only Japanese have been victimized by those criminals. Don't you realize we've had enough?
Lee Yong-soo, ex-Korean prostitute claims that she was forced to work as a sex slave in Taiwan for three years from 1944. Hey, you! How long do you think Japan was fighting? She really makes me laugh! That's why I call her "a whore who leapt through time". (LOL)
via jackassk.web.fc2.com Click here to see another photo showing "comfort women" =prostitutes smilingly crossing a river.
The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the Republic of Korea produced a propaganda poster designed to appeal to the world that so-called "comfort women" (a polite and indirect way of calling professional prostitues in Japan in the past) were forcibly mobilized by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Greater East Asia War. As most of post war Koreans are illiterate or uneducated in Japanese characters (or Chinese characters), they used a newspaper advertisement for "Comfort women"=Prostitutes (a clipping from the old newspaper) published in those days at the request of the private personnel placement center, not knowing what it actually says. It says nothing about "Drafted" or "Mobilized" or "Forced" at all. It is just like any newspaper ad trying to recruit the qualified female individuals. As soon as those educated in characters pointed it out, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the Republic of Korea quickly recovered the posters once widely distributed.
Notes:
Prostitution was legally practiced in Japan and was abolished soon after U.S. occupation of Japan was over.
The propaganda poster the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the Republic of Korea produced actually consists of three parts; 1. A newspaper clipping all written in Japanese characters, 2. A painting by Jak Lord Gangdeok,(access E-Museum of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the Republic of Korea if it is still available at E-Museum, Hermuseum Welcome to E-Museum for the victims of Japanese Military Slavery, Republic of Korea) 3. A photo showing some women presumably riding on a truck whose source is unknown.
Speaking of a Korean whore named "Moon Okuju=文玉珠", she saved up JPY 26,145 in those days almost equivalent to JPY 100 million at the current value. This is how much she saved up only in two years. How could you say she was raped? Please teach me how she could be called a victim of raping when she earned much more than Imperial Japanese Army General did.
Lee Yong-soo, ex-Korean prostitute claims that she was forced to work as a sex slave in Taiwan for three years from 1944. Hey, you! How long do you think Japan was fighting? She really makes me laugh! That's why I call her "a whore who leapt through time". (LOL)
@2002_beavis All of your tweets are just absurd and must be dumped into a garbage truck along with a solid waste like you. Somebody should call up Dept. of Public Works for checking out "Refuse Schedule and Collection" just in case a solid waste like you is still hanging around in the neighborhood. Or else, 911.
여러분 이 tedyokohama란 새끼가 정신대가 자진해서생긴 창녀들이라고 개소리를하기에 지금싸우고있습니다. 이새끼를 정신적으로 더이상 살고싶지않도록 만들계획입니다. 도와주십시요.
I’m now fighting against baby Ted Yokohama talking about the bullshit like “comfort women were the voluntarily formed brigades of prostitutes. I will create a mental torture plan, thereby making you bastards feel “I don’t want to live any longer.” Please help.
South Korea has been well known for being "Invader", "Liar", "Thief", "Extortionist", etc. Just to name a few.
South Korea must face justice at International Court of Justice over so-called "Takeshima invasion and occupation issue" regardless of the mere fact that they are now desperately trying to seek pardon from Japan by obscuring a number of major indiscretions South Korea has tirelessly, foolishly, imprudently, and tactlessly committed against Japan and her people.
Since the videos of South Korean pres. Lee illegally landing on Takeshima islets have gone viral this week, many expect that his outrageous and unacceptable act would cost him at least a job of presidency one could define as chiefly extorting money from Japan by reinforcing "so-called Comfort Women issue" based on the stories fabricated in collaboration with leftists in Japan.
In view of what's reported in this article whose gist convinces the people sharing the same values of democracy that South Korea is nothing but a terrorist state as the government of South Korea encourages its people to terrorize Japan and her people, Japan should designate South Korea as a terrorist state. Regardless of what the United States of America, a South Korean lover, says, designation of South Korea as a terrorist state should be done without any delay. No effective legal action has so far been taken against those Koreans who attacked and continue to disturb the Embassy of Japan at all.
Si le président de la république de corée Lee s'est plaint de la prostitution ou des prostituées pendant la guerre de la Grande Asie orientale, s'il vous plaît arrêter d'envoyer des prostituées coréennes. Le gouvernement du Japon devrait envisager l'application de contrôle plus strict sur les prostituées étrangères à venir au Japon, sous le couvert de touristes, etc
If s.korean pres. Lee complains about wartime prostitution or prostitutes, please stop sending anymore Korean prostitutes to Japan now. The Govt of Japan should consider enforcement of stricter control over foreign prostitutes coming in Japan under the guise of tourists, etc.
70 years ago, those who chose to become prostitutes had no other options (because they were in poverty). Different opinions on the actual number of the wartime prostitutes; however, S. Korea is so stupid enough to insist that there were 200,000 Korean prostitutes. When could the Imperial Japanese soldiers find time to fight if they had that many?
It is estimated that 20% of 4,000 wartime prostitutes were Koreans. Do you know what they have testified? Some said "we were sold to brothels by our dads." while others "we were tricked into working at brothels by our neighbours."
The above is an provisional translation of the following tweets:
Il ya 70 ans, les femmes coréennes devenues prostituées parce qu'ils vivaient dans la pauvreté. Personne ne connaît le nombre exact de prostituées qui ont été les Coréens, mais ils sont tellement assez stupide pour insister pour que 200 000 femmes coréennes travaillaient comme prostituées pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Quand les soldats Impériaux Japonais pourrait trouver le temps de se battre si elles autant?
Il est estimé qu'il y avait 800 prostituées coréennes. Savez-vous ce qu'ils ont témoigné? Certains disaient que nous étions vendus à des bordels par nos papas tandis que d'autres disaient que nous étions vendus à des bordels par nos voisins.
Ce qui précède est une traduction provisoire de tweets ci-dessous;
Hace 70 años, aquellos que optaron por convertirse en prostitutas no tenían otra opción (porque estaban en situación de pobreza). Opiniones diferentes sobre el número real de las prostitutas en tiempos de guerra, sin embargo, los activistas coreanos son tan estúpidos como para insistir en que hay 200.000 prostitutas coreanas. Cuando los soldados podrían Imperial Japonesa encontrar tiempo para pelear si había tantas?
Se estima que el 20% de 4.000 prostitutas eran coreanos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. ¿Sabes lo que las prostitutas declararon? Algunos dijeron que fueron vendidas a prostíbulos por nuestros padres, mientras que otros dijeron que fueron vendidas a prostíbulos por nuestros vecinos.
Lo anterior es una traducción provisional de los tweets siguientes:
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