Much unwarranted angst.
From what I've read in my history books, most of the "comfort women" were working prostitutes before being drafted into service alongside the military. In Japan, as with other Asian countries, prostitution is viewed as a semi-respectable profession, and supposedly many of the women volunteered their services to the government out of a sense of patriotism -- not to mention adventure. I believe that a major point of contention in Japan is the status of citizens there who are of foreign descent. Historically, Japanese nationals of Korean descent, regardless of how many generations their citizenship goes back to, are treated as somewhat less than full citizens. In that light, one could presume that a percentage of women of foreign descent were unwilling "volunteers".
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