SDHF Newsletter No.133 UN Sex Slave Report 7

“Sex-Slave” Report: The UN’s Global Hoax (Jiyu-sha)
―　Report from Japanese Delegations to the UN in Geneva　―
written and edited by Fujioka Nobukatsu,
Visiting Professor, Takushoku University
No.7: Chapter 2 The Fiction Equating Comfort Women with Sex Slaves Spreads throughout the World
E. The tone of German media coverage of comfort women
By Emi Kawaguchi-Mahn
August 3, 2016

The author writes “It is unlikely that residents of Japan proper know much distress the comfort-women controversy has caused Japanese nationals living in foreign countries.”
It is nearly impossible to educate Germans about the comfort-women controversy. There are so many aspects that must be explained, including who the comfort women were and what they did, and past and present relations between Japan and Korea. It is of paramount importance to shed light on the Asahi Shimbun’s role in the controversy, and why a false report ended up taking on a life of its own. Unfortunately, the German media ignore these aspects of the controversy, focusing instead on horror stories, and the “sex-slave” tragedy.
The following article appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine, one of Germany’s leading dailies, as an example:

MISREPRESENTATION OF HISTORY: JAPAN DEMANDS CORRECTIONS TO AMERICAN TEXTBOOKS

Historical revisionism has entered a new phase: Japanese foreign minister intends to effect changes in US textbooks. This is nothing more than resistance against the current state of historical research.
For the first time Japan is exerting pressure on foreign textbooks in order to whitewash its atrocities during World War II. In a statement made on Tuesday in Tokyo, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said that the Japanese government had criticized an account in a history textbook used in the US. The authors are historians Jerry Bentley and Herbert Ziegler, and in the account in question they maintain that the Japanese Army compelled 200,000 women to serve as military prostitutes in East Asia.

The reporter has no doubt about the illusion that the Japanese Army compelled 200,000 women to serve as military prostitutions in East Asia. This situation was caused by Asahi Shimbun’s false article on the comfort women and the Government’s improper treatment of this issue–blame for responsibility to this misdeed rests with them.

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URL: https://www.sdh-fact.com/book-article/769/
PDF: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/UN-Sex-Slave-Report-Chapter-2.5.pdf
Author profile: https://www.sdh-fact.com/auther/emi-kawaguchi-mahn/

Questions are welcome.

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