Osaka, Japan, ended "sister city" relationship with San Francisco over sex slaves statue
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The point is the massacre and rape was not a isolated incident, it happened everywhere that the Imperial Japan invaded. It was also applied to the case of the comfort women, where there were comfort women from China, Taiwan, Indonesia and Philippines, not just Korea. The Japanese only gaslighting the Korean comfort women because Korea was the only country that got compensation. If the Japanese government is so sincere, why no comfort women from other countries receive the justice they deserve.
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So I rest my case and you are right, since Tomiichi Murayama was one of the fews PM that was sincere of the Japanese war crime. Hopefully the Chinese comfortwomen can eventually get their justice they deserve.
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Thanks for that.
Put there is still a problem.
The comfort issue exploded in the early 90s. So the Fund was set up in 1995 and operated until 2007. But the issue continues to politicized with false allegations and exaggerations. It invokes the mentality of a mob. Academic thinking is criticized. Few South Koreans are willing to voice agianst the mob. Consider one South Korean professor who does. She's be charged guilty in court for it.
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SEOUL (AFP) - A South Korean professor who challenged the consensus view of Japan's war time sex slaves was convicted of defaming the victims on Friday (Oct 27), after a Seoul appeals court overturned an earlier acquittal.
Park Yu Ha, of Sejong University in the South Korean capital, was found guilty of defamation for questioning the popular narrative that all so-called "comfort women" were dragged from their homes by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
In her 2013 book "The Comfort Women of the Empire", she suggested the reality was more complex, with some women volunteering - though without necessarily knowing what their eventual fate would be. Many were told that they would get factory jobs.
The book also suggested some women forged emotional bonds with the soldiers they served, sparking an angry response from surviving victims.
The Seoul High Court on Friday overturned a January verdict by a lower court, which acquitted Park on the premise that academic freedom was a basic right and her opinions were not a criminal issue.
"Park used definitive expressions in some parts of her book which could make readers think that... the victims voluntarily joined military brothels with an intention to sell sex," the appeals court said.
"She inflicted (significant) mental stress on the victims by displaying distorted claims about those forced into sex slavery," it said.
Mainstream historians say up to 200,000 women, mostly from the then-Japanese colony of Korea but also other parts of Asia including China, were forced to become sex slaves for Tokyo troops.
The issue remains highly sensitive in both South Korea and China, with Seoul and Tokyo engaged in a diplomatic row over memorial statues to the women installed in front of Japanese missions in the South.
The court fined Park to 10 million won ($8,848) - a lighter punishment than a three-year jail term sought by prosecutors.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/e...-academic-convicted-of-defaming-comfort-women
That's why its good that Osaka broke relations with SF because the history is just being abused and politicized. Enough is enough.
