SDHF Newsletter No.39-2: The Truth about the “Comfort Women”

Posted on 15/06/2015

February 9, 2012

After mailing out Newsletter No.39, I realized that one important point was missing
in my Essay and this is that the comfort women were mostly Japanese. Since I
explained that the “Comfort Women” houses were run by operators of prostitution,
I thought that it would have been taken for granted that the comfort women were
mostly Japanese. But I recognize that there are many people who still think that
the comfort women are all Korean. So, I’ll add some information concerning this point.

Professor Hata Ikuhiko concludes in his book “Senjyo no ianhu” (“Comfort Women of
the Battle Zone”) that roughly 40% were Japanese, 20% were Korean and 30% were of
other ethnicities recruited mainly from the local area. It is very reasonable
calculation since brothels were not an extraordinary things but commonplac,these
just happened to operate in battle zones outside of Japan.

For your information, you can find the following information at our website facts
concerning the “Comfort Women”:

* “Behind the Comfort Women Controversy” https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/39_S4.pdf
*The Truth about the Question of Comfort Women
https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/24_S4.pdf
*No Organized or Forced Recruitment: Misconceptions About Comfort Women and the
Japanese Military https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/31_S4.pdf
*The Real Identity of Military Comfort Women
https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/30_S4.pdf
*Paid Advertisement Concerning “Comfort Women” Run in the Washington Post:
“Facts are Our Only Weapon” https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/33_S4.pdf
*The Comfort Women Controversy and Actual Misdeeds of the United States Army
https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/48_S4.pdf

Questions are welcome.

Sincerely,

MOTEKI Hiromichi, Secretary General
for KASE Hideaki, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact