SDHF NEwsletter No.418 Japan-US- South Korea Joint Symposium -Part III

“Japan, US, South Korea Joint Symposium” to condemn the Comfort women issue held – Part III: For the Future
By Matsuki Kunitoshi, fellow, International Research Institute of Controversial Histories

November 15, 2024

Mr. Fujioka Nobukatsu, fellow at International Research Institute of Controversial Histories, gave a closing speech:

Immediately after the forced abduction of comfort women was alleged in 1992, the incident was academically, logically and empirically denied completely through Mr. Nishioka Tsutomu’s papers and Mr. Hata Ikuhiko’s report of the on-the-spot investigation. Thanks to the studies conducted by these two great scholars, I was able to learn the truth about the comfort women issue. Afterwards, it took many years before the Asahi Newspaper admitted the fabricated reporting. But now, it is almost common sense that former comfort women are North Korean spies, and it is a moving experience to be able to hold a symposium like today’s. We owe the success today to the two great scholars.
What surprised me during today’s symposium is the facts that at universities in the United States, professors are so easily and arbitrarily fired and that South Korean elementary school textbooks describe comfort women. In Japan, junior high school textbooks rarely deal with the comfort women issue, but some high school textbooks still address the comfort women issue. I realize that the school textbooks issue is not over yet either in Japan or in South Korea.
In either way, it is a great victory for conscientious truth-seekers from Japan, the United States and South Korea to get together and hold a wonderful assembly like this today. Congratulations to all of you on this great success!

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MOTEKI Hiromichi, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact