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Originally Posted by MRMAGQQ";p="
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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1.) only about 35% of the comfort women were Japanese...how did Japan draft prostitutes from china, malaysia, phillipines, thailand, etc?
2.) "many of the women volunteered their services to the government out of a sense of patriotism" --source?--
3.) "...not to mention adventure" --source?--
4.) "Japanese nationals of Korean descent, regardless of how many generations their citizenship goes back to, are treated as somewhat less than full citizens" --this is the only statement that bears some truth to it
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The military turned to acquiring comfort women outside mainland Japan, especially from Korea and occupied China. Many women were tricked or defrauded into joining the military brothels. The US Army Force Office report of interview with 20 comfort women in Burma found that the girls were induced by the offer of plenty of money, an opportunity to pay off the family debts, and on the basis of these false representations many girls enlisted for overseas duty and were rewarded with an advance of a few hundred yen. [10] Others were kidnapped.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women
03-04-2007, 05:26 PM
the craziest apologist post of the day
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