Baseless description on "comfort women" in California H.S. curriculum

California, 'Comfort women' and a lesson in how history is shaped in California textbooks, LosAngelesTimes, February 7, 2016

SFUSD, SF SCHOOLS TO TEACH ABOUT SEX TRAFFICKING AS PART OF CURRICULUM, ABC7 News, March 14, 2016

'Comfort women' description in H.S. curriculum frameworks of CA is baseless.

Who takes accountability for students about its basis ? California inflicts that on individual teachers ?

Curriculum Frameworks, History-Social Science for Grade ten students, by California Department of Education ;

- “Comfort Women,” a euphemism for sexual slaves, were taken by the Japanese Army in occupied territories before and during the war. “Comfort Women” can be taught as an example of institutionalized sexual slavery, and one of the largest cases of human trafficking in the twentieth century; estimates on the total number of comfort women vary, but most argue that hundreds of thousands of women were forced into these situations during Japanese occupation. -

Imagine a classroom of a high school in California in near future

“Comfort Women” means institutionalized sexual slavery. It's one of the largest cases of human trafficking in the twentieth century. It is widely believed hundreds of thousands of women were forced into sexual slavery during Japanese occupation.

"sexual slavery" ?

What had happened ?

Thought to be like as

"Spirits' Homecoming", 2016 JO Entertainment

It's disgusting.

We should know what caused that.

Firstly, I'll see the Wikipedia,

'abducted from their homes'

'Many women responded to calls for work..., and did not know that they were being pressed into sexual slavery'

'indiscriminately kidnapping and raping'

'about 200,000 young women were kidnapped'

'Approximately three quarters of comfort women died'

'physical torture were said to be common'

Uh..., it's so horrific.

Er ?

'abducted from their homes' ?

It's different from "human trafficking" the teacher said.

And..., Wikipedia says;

'Estimates vary as to how many women were involved, with numbers ranging from as low as 20K to as high as 360K to 410K'

Why so indefinite ?

Wasn't this issue revealed by many evidences ?

It's confusing....

What had exactly happened ?

Er....,

Wikipedia only shows testimony of victims. But those are personal experience that the date, location and relevant persons weren't specified.

Wikipedia only shows statements of politicians or historians but didn't mention its concrete basis.

I do want to know what concretely happened....

....,

I found it !

In February 1944, in Java Island, 35 Dutch women, including Ms. O'Herne, were forced into a comfort station of Semarang. 13 relevant Japanese personnel were specified.

Er ?

In April 1944, a Japanese upper officer, Colonel Odashima, came to know that, then he released the women.

He found it violation against the Japanese discipline that comfort women should be volunteers.

These were described in the official record of The Batavia Trial(1946-1949).

After all, it's just like the Abu Ghraib prison incident.

Lower unit violated the military discipline. Upper echelon stopped that.

Moreover, it was already settled by the trial and the treaty between the Netherlands and Japan.

Anything else ?

....,

I found it !

'Japanese Prisoner of War Interrogation Report No. 49 (1944)', an official document of the U.S.

'20 Korean girls were deceived into being used as comfort women by the Japanese'

OK, let me see the original source,

' She (average Korean comfort girl) is inclined to be egotistical and likes to talk about herself.'

That's good. The U.S. seemed to interview the comfort women directly.

Er ?

' A "comfort girl" is nothing more than a prostitute or "professional camp follower"'

' The inducement used by these (Japanese) agents was plenty of money,.... On the basis of these false representations many girls enlisted for overseas duty and were rewarded with an advance of a few hundred yen.'

Prostitute ?, Not sexual slavery ?

By agents ?, Not by soldiers ?

Inducement?, Rewarded? Not abduction nor kidnapping ?

' They lived well because their food and material was not heavily rationed and they had plenty of money with which to purchase desired articles.'

' However there were numerous instances of proposals of marriage (from soldiers) and in certain cases marriages actually took place.'

It's far away from "sexual slavery".

Though these were their personal experience, there found no criminality of the Japanese military.

Any other cases ?

' Magelang incident' ,

It ended in acquittal in the Batavia Trial after WW2.

' sexual violence and women forced into sexual slavery committed by Imperial Japanese soldiers in French Indochina and Indonesia',

This was treated as crime by individuals. The soldiers were sentenced by the Permanent Military Tribunal in Saigon.

Anyway, these were individual incidents like the Abu Ghraib prison's one.

There still found no institutionalized sexual slavery nor systematic criminality as Japan's policy.

Ma'am, I'm in trouble.

Imagine that, if someone sues others but not clarifies charged-fact, the court cannot make a judicial decision and just dismisses the suit.

Now, many say Japan as a nation should be accused, but there found no specified incidents that can be charged-fact.

The South Korea, China, NYT, LosAngelesTimes, TheEconomist, BBC, all say it was systematic criminal atrocity by Japan as a nation.

The S.K. and China say there are many evidence.

So, I believe you'll be able to find many identified incidents.

Try it again.

Uh....

All the testimony didn't specify incidents concretely.

the date?, location?, troop name?, perpetrators?, witnesses or record of the same incident by others than victims themselves ?.., Nothing...,

Politicians and historians just referred to victims' testimony or commercial publication. But they didn't show objective primary material.

Jane is studying other theme, massacres of Vietnamese citizens.

That's not atrocity as a nation.

But I think she also searches for specified incidents same as you.

How about asking her ?

Jane, there found no specified incidents on my theme, comfort women issue.

What's your approach on your theme ?

I could easily find specified incidents such as Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat .

Date, location, relevant units and soldiers were identified.

And photos with its photographer identified, official reports by the U.S.

And, in Vietnam, there are many monuments.

On some of them, victims' names were engraved.

photo: http://www.zakzak.co.jp/ ,2014

Aren't there any record about killed or disappeared women ?

Monuments?, graves?

How about searching not only battlefields but also their hometowns?

That's a good idea.

Is it said more than a few hundred thousand were killed ?

Then it is supposed many parents, relatives, neighbors, teachers had

searched for disappeared women after the war.

You can find record such as articles on newspapers, relatives' testimony, parents' diaries,

record of disappeared/dead on resident registration of town offices.

Thank you !

I'll try.

Um...,

Still I cannot find specified incidents.

Moreover, no monuments, completely no records/testimony about disappeared/killed victims.

There were completely no witnesses who saw the abduction of the victims.

There were completely no record of disappeared/killed victims' names, they say those number is more than a few hundred thousand.

Isn't it big contradiction ?

Ma'am,

They say hundreds of thousands of women were forced into sexual slavery.

But there found no specified incidents nor objective basis to endorse that.

I only found contradiction.

There only found criminality by individual soldiers or small units like that the Abu Ghraib prison incident was so.

You taught us as;

What's the basis of that ?

What had actually happened ?

( May 7, 2016, Racn Kel )

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