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■"THE FACTS"なる全面意見広告
日本の国会議員らが、日本軍性奴隷の存在を否定する"THE FACTS"なる全面意見広告を、14日付のワシントンポストに掲載しました。
「狭い意味の強制を示す文書はない」「公娼制は当時の世界では『普通』であった」「将官よりも多くの収入を得ていたものもいた」。単に責任逃れをしているだけではありません。償いきれない犯罪の犠牲になった女性達を、さらに二重三重に傷つける、鬼畜にも劣る内容です。
ただし、この広告は、既に確認されている「事実」に対し、十年一日のデマゴーグを苦し紛れに並べたにすぎません。日本の似非右翼は喜んでも、彼らの思惑に反して、日米市民間の亀裂を深めるのは必至だと思います。
では、この意見広告に名を連ねたセンセイ方のお名前をとくとご確認あれ!
■自民党(28名)
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衆議院
大塚 高司 衆議院 岡部 英明 衆議院 小川 友一 衆議院 鍵田 忠兵
衛 衆議院
亀岡 偉民 衆議院 木原 稔 衆議院 木挽 司 衆議院 坂井 学 衆議
院
島村 宜伸 衆議院 杉田 元司 衆議院 鈴木 馨祐 衆議院 薗浦 健太
郎 衆議院
平 将明 衆議院 土井 亨 衆議院 土井 真樹 衆議院 戸井田 とおる
衆議院
西本 勝子 衆議院 林 潤 衆議院 古川 禎久 衆議院 松本 文明 衆
議院
松本 洋平 衆議院 武藤 容治 衆議院 山本 ともひろ 衆議院
渡部 篤 衆議院 中川 義雄 参議院▲▲
■いちおう無所属(2名)
西村 真悟 衆議院 平沼 赳夫 衆議院
■民主党(13名)
石関 貴史 衆議院 泉 健太 衆議院 河村 たかし 衆議院 北神 圭朗
衆議院
神風 英男 衆議院 田村 謙治 衆議院 牧 義夫 衆議院 松木 謙公
衆議院
松下 新平 参議院 松原 仁 衆議院 吉田 泉 衆議院
笠 浩史 衆議院 鷲尾 英一郎 衆議院
参議院選挙を配慮して1名を除きすべて衆議院議員って言うのも、彼らの卑怯さをよくあらわしていますね。
■そのほか「有識者」だって
(カッコ内は「自称」の職種であり、確認されていないものもあります)
屋山 太郎(政治評論家)
櫻井 よしこ(ジャーナリスト)
花岡 信昭(政治評論家)
すぎやまこういち(音楽家)
西村 幸祐(ジャーナリスト)
福田 逸(明治大学教授)
遠藤 浩一(拓殖大学教授)
宮崎 正弘(新潟大学教授)
東中野修道(亜細亜大学教授)
荒木 和博(拓殖大学教授)
島田 洋一(福井県立大学教授)
西岡 力(東京基督教大学教授)
藤岡 信勝(拓殖大学教授)
加瀬 英明(外交評論家)
西尾 幹二(電通大学名誉教授・政治評論家)
富岡幸一郎(文芸評論家)
岡崎 久彦(外交評論家)
青山 繁晴(独立総研社長)
茂木弘道(世界出版社長・評論家)
以上!!!
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■原文テキストはこれ↓
(訳す気になれませんが、資料としては保存しておくべきものでしょう)
THE FACTS
The purpose of this paid public comment is to present historical facts.
At the end of April, an advertisement purporting to tell "The Truth about Comfort Women" appeared in the Washington Post. The claimscontained in these statements, though, were anything but the "truth."
Rather than being base on "facts," they appeared, if anything, to be the products of "faith." The people of Japan have the highest respect for the United States as a fellow democratic nation and as a strong and reliable ally. For democracy to operate effectively, though, the freedom of speech, though, academic research, and religion must be guaranteed so that individual citizens can draw their own appropriate conclusions. To enable this, people must have access to correct facts, rather than fallacies, distortions, biases, and factual errors. This public comment seeks to present a number of historical facts relating to "comfort women" that have not been adequately brought to light so as to enable thereaders of this respected publication to draw their own conclusion.
FACT 1
No historical document has ever been found by historians or research organizations that positively demonstrates that women were forced against their will into prostitution by the Japanese army. A search of the archives at the Japan Center for Asian Historical Records, which houses wartime orders from the government and military leaders, turned up nothing indicating that women were forcibly rounded up to work as ianfu, or "comfort women."
On the contrary, many documents were found warning private brokers notto force women to work against their will.Army memorandum 2197, issued on March 4, 1938, explicitly prohibit srecruiting methods that fraudulently employ the army's name or that can be classified as abduction, warning that those employing such methods have been punished. A Home Affairs Ministry directive (number 77) issued on February 18, 1938, states that the recruitment of "comfort women" must be in compliance with international law and prohibits the enslavement or abduction of women. A directive (number 136) issued on November 8 the same year, moreover, orders that only women who are 21 years old or over and are already professionally engaged in the trade may be recruited as "comfort women." It also requires the approval of the woman's family or relatives.
A historian claims that the number of "comfort women" reached 200,000 -a contention frequently quoted in the US media - believes, on the other hand, that the memorandum offers proof of the army's active involvement.
FACT 2
There are many newspaper articles, moreover, that demonstrate that these directives were dutifully carried out. The August 31, 1939, issue of Dong-A Ilbo, published in Korea, reports of brokers who forced women to become ianfu against their will being punished by the local police, which was under Japanese jurisdiction at the time. This offers proofthat the Japanese government dealt severely with inhumane crimes againstwomen.
Unscrupulous Brokers Run Rampant
Abduction of Rural Women and Girls More than 100 Women Victimized Pusan Police Officers Dashed Off to Mukden
PUSAN - Unscrupulous brokers have been conspiring to abduct women from poor families by promising them generous rewards in Manchuria (where Japanese soldiers are claimed to be visiting brothels in swarms). Forty-five such brokers were found to be working in Pusan, where they lured unsuspecting young women away from their families and sold them into prostitution in Manchuria. Over 100 women have already been victimized. Intensive investigation by Pusan police has revealed the identity of a Mukden dealer involved in these activities, and six officers were dispatched in the evening of August 20 to the city to arrest this dealer.The arrest is expected to fully expose the nightmarish activities ofthese brokers.
FACT 3
There were admittedly cases, though, of breakdowns in discipline. On the island of Semarang in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), for instance, an army unit forcibly rounded up a group of young Dutch women to work at a "comfort station." The station was shut down under army orders, though, when this incident came to light, and the responsible officers were punished. Those involved in this and other war crimes were subsequently tried in Dutch courts and received heavy sentences,including the death penalty.
FACT 4
House Resolution 121 sponsored by US Representative Mike Honda and other charges of Japanese maltreatment of "comfort women" are mostly based on testimonies by former ianfu. In none of their initial statements are there references to their being coerced to work by the army or other units of the Japanese government.Their testimonies have undergone dramatic changes, though, after the start of the anti-Japanese campaign. Those who testified in a House of Representatives public hearing first reported that they were whisked away by brokers, but then later claimed that their abductors wore clothing that "looked like police uniforms."
FACT 5
The ianfu who were embedded with the Japanese army were not, as iscommonly reported, "sex slaves."They were working under a system of licensed prostitution that was commonplace around the world at the time. Many of the women, in fact, earned incomes far in excess of what were paid to field officers and even generals (as reported by the United States Office of War Information, Psychological Warfare Team Attached to U.S. Army Forces, India-Burma Theater, APO 689), and there are many testimonies attesting to the fact that they were treated well.
There are records of soldiers being punished for acts of violence
against the women. Many countries set up brothels for their armies, in fact, to prevent soldiers from committing rape against private citizens.(In 1945, for instance, Occupation authorities asked the Japanese government to set up hygienic and safe "comfort stations" to prevent rape by American soldiers.)
Sadly, many women were made to soffer severe hardships during the
wretched era during World War II, and it is with profound regret that we contemplate this tragic historical reality. At the same time, we must note that it is a gross and deliberate distortion of reality to contend that the Japanese army was guilty of "coercing young women into sexual slavery" in "one of the largest cases of human trafficking in the 20th century," as the House Resolution claims. After all, two-fifths of the approximately 20,000 ianhu during the war were Japanese women, as detailed in an academic paper by historian Ikuhiko Hata. We are interested, foremost, in sharing the truth with the American public. Criticism for events that actually occurred must be humbly embraced. But apologies over unfounded slander and defamation will not only give the public an erroneous impression of historical reality but could negatively affect the friendship between the United States and Japan. We
ask only that the Facts be objectively regarded so that we may share a
correct perception of history.
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