SDHF Newsletter No.58 Open letter to Glendale

To City Councilman Frank Quintero, and the members of
the City Council of Glendale
From Max von Schuler-Kobayashi
May 31, 2013

Mr. Max von Schuler-Kobayashi, Historian (German-American, Former US Marine based in Japan and now Representative lecturer of 「Hiizurutokorokara Philosophy of US-Japan relations」) sent out a protesting open letter to City Councilman Frank Quintero, and the members of the City Council of Glendale concerning their decision to put up a permanent memorial to the so called “ Comfort Women.”
He writes “You are being conned. During the war, the Korean people were Japanese citizens, and were willing and able participants in the Japanese Empire. It is after the war that they decided that they were victims, and switched roles.”
“And even in their own country, Korea, women are demonstrating for their rights to be prostitutes. Yet they accuse Japan of a crime?

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2072487,00.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43650531/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/t/s-korean-sex-workers-threaten-set-themselves-fire-protect-their-brothels/#.UVoTg4VmGv9

A complete text of his open letter is available here.

https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_3/27_S1.pdf

Your questions will be duly transferred to Mr. Max.

Sincerely,

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