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--Empirically argued that comfort women had contracts that allowed them to quit once the contract period ended or the advance loan was repaid.
``Women were worried that prostitution was bad for their reputation, and being close to a battlefield was dangerous.They also worried about whether they would be paid properly.In brothels in Tokyo, wages were not paid.'' If they don't pay you, you can go to the police, but in Southeast Asia this is not an easy solution.It can't be done unless the wages are high, and I wouldn't be in trouble if I wasn't paid later, so I signed an advance payment contract for indentured servitude.''
--It was, so to speak, a battlefield version of the old licensed prostitution system.
"Yes. However, although they are really similar, they are a little different. The situation is more dangerous than working as a licensed prostitute in Tokyo, so in Tokyo the contract period is 6 years, while in Burma etc. the contract period is often 2 years. Whether it's good or bad, I think the comfort women system was created as an extension of the licensed prostitution system to prevent soldiers from contracting sexually transmitted diseases.
-However, there was no forced abduction.
“I think I can say that clearly.”
--Why did comfort women become an issue?
``Researchers in South Korea found that there were almost no newspaper articles related to comfort women in South Korea before 1990. (False testimony was made that comfort women were forcibly taken away from Jeju Island, South Korea.) The Korean version of Seiji Yoshida's book was published in 1989. I think it has something to do with Mr. Yoshida's book.
--Was it influenced by Asahi Shimbun's extensive coverage of Yoshida's fabricated stories?
"I think so. Of course. That's exactly right."
--The arguments of US researchers of Japanese history who launched an anti-Ramseyer campaign seem to have been sloppy.
"They neither read nor investigated the basic Japanese literature written by (historian) Ikuhiko Hata. They also claimed that Mr. Yoshida's story was a fabrication and that he was forcibly taken away. It does not mention the fact that several former comfort women living in nursing homes run by South Korean women who have been linked to North Korea.
``Women were worried that prostitution was bad for their reputation, and being close to a battlefield was dangerous.They also worried about whether they would be paid properly.In brothels in Tokyo, wages were not paid.'' If they don't pay you, you can go to the police, but in Southeast Asia this is not an easy solution.It can't be done unless the wages are high, and I wouldn't be in trouble if I wasn't paid later, so I signed an advance payment contract for indentured servitude.''
--It was, so to speak, a battlefield version of the old licensed prostitution system.
"Yes. However, although they are really similar, they are a little different. The situation is more dangerous than working as a licensed prostitute in Tokyo, so in Tokyo the contract period is 6 years, while in Burma etc. the contract period is often 2 years. Whether it's good or bad, I think the comfort women system was created as an extension of the licensed prostitution system to prevent soldiers from contracting sexually transmitted diseases.
-However, there was no forced abduction.
“I think I can say that clearly.”
--Why did comfort women become an issue?
``Researchers in South Korea found that there were almost no newspaper articles related to comfort women in South Korea before 1990. (False testimony was made that comfort women were forcibly taken away from Jeju Island, South Korea.) The Korean version of Seiji Yoshida's book was published in 1989. I think it has something to do with Mr. Yoshida's book.
--Was it influenced by Asahi Shimbun's extensive coverage of Yoshida's fabricated stories?
"I think so. Of course. That's exactly right."
--The arguments of US researchers of Japanese history who launched an anti-Ramseyer campaign seem to have been sloppy.
"They neither read nor investigated the basic Japanese literature written by (historian) Ikuhiko Hata. They also claimed that Mr. Yoshida's story was a fabrication and that he was forcibly taken away. It does not mention the fact that several former comfort women living in nursing homes run by South Korean women who have been linked to North Korea.