The Main Battleground of the Comfort
Women Issue
A reply to
the above documentary by me: Tony Marano.
For this
documentary Mr. Miki Dezaki interviewed Kent Gilbert, Colonel Shun-san, and
myself. Prior to the interview we are
assured by Mr. Dezaki the tone of the documentary will maintain a middle of the
road tone treated by sides on this issue evenhandedly.
The film
debut in Busan, South Korea. There were
two pre-screenings in Tokyo I am aware of.
Two friends who attended both pre-screenings in Tokyo reported the film
was lopsided in favor of the illusion supported by the Comfort Women mafia on
the Korean peninsula.
During the
first part were the interviews of myself, Kent, Shun and other Japanese
notables who do not support the version on this issue coming from many
Koreans. Then Koreans where shown who disputed
what we said. We were never given an
opportunity to refute their counter version.
Subsequently
Mr. Dezaki held a press conference at the Foreign Correspondence Club of Japan
– FCCJ. At this conference he referred
to us as “Right Wing Revisionist,” while referring to the Koreans as “Comfort
Women Supporters.”
This
fakeumentary masquerading as a documentary note various points to be addressed
and replied to here.
We were labeled
as: Historical revisionists or denialist.
Reply:
We are labeled as revisionist and
denialist because we have documented proof, while the narrative promoted by
Miki Dezaki and others on the Korean peninsula have zero documentation.
He did
acknowledge the following truths:
Korean
Comfort Women supporters could not provide documentation illustrating the
forced servitude.
However the
Japanese have provided documentation they were recruited.
Comfort Women
testimony found to be inconsistent.
During the
1990’s 204 Comfort Women came out and told their stories, less than 30 alive
today.
He said the
Comfort Women suffered physical and psychological pain, their suffering
continued after the war. In South Korea,
Comfort Women were seen as unworthy of commemoration, reason for their silence
after the war.
Reply:
“Unworthy of
commemoration?” In South Korea prostitution
historically has not been a dishonorable profession. At one time in Korea’s history prostitutes
were government employees. They were called:
Kisaeng / Ginyeo / Gwa-gi.
He said Professor
Mera leader of a revisionist group.
Reply
Professor
Mera is Japanese who is retired from a California University. California is the epicenter of liberalism. How could a “revisionist” survive in a
teaching position in a university in that state? Professor Mera’s teaching history invalidates
Mr. Dezaki’s slanderous accusation.
Former mayor
of Glendale Calif, denied ever receiving any money from China or Koreans.
Reply:
Was Mr.
Dezaki that naïve to expect the former mayor to say on video, “Sure, I received
money from the Chinese.” Glendale,
California enjoys a sizable Korean population which translates into a constituency
able to make a considerable amount of legal campaign contributions.
Kent Gilbert
and I are called revisionists and mentioned as proof the book we co-authored
titled:
“Inform
Japan How Amazing it is”
Shameless
plug: This excellent book is available
on Amazon.jp.
Reply:
Kent and I
not being Japanese recognize what the Japanese take for granted, that we from
the West see as amazing. How is that
being a “revisionists” by admiring a culture other than the one we were raised
in?
He had a
Korean explain how the 200,000 number was derived, after Kent logically
questions that number. However did not
allow Kent to respond to the Korean.
“Revisionists
don’t know how numbers were derived” on the screen however narrator said:
“Revisionists don’t seem to know what they are talking about regarding these
numbers.”
Reply:
We know exactly
where that 200,000 number came from, it came from those on the Korean peninsula
who are supporting the forced sexual slavery story. Using
their 200,000 number we factored in with the number of about 1.5 million in the
Imperial Japanese Army, who was said to have abused the Comfort Women around
twenty-five times a day. Putting the
numbers to pencil and paper that means the Japanese soldier was having sex
multiple times a day. With all that
sexing how did they have time to execute a war?
The
fakeumentary claims when we mention Comfort Women created by South Korean soldiers
in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, it is only to detract from Japan’s
responsibility. We also South Korean
soldiers from about 1950 for the next forty years forced South Korean women to
participate as Comfort Women for USA troops.
Reply:
When South
Koreans place Comfort Women statues they place a plaque next to them. The plaque claims to represent sexual abuse
of women during war and only mentions those who served the Imperial Japanese
Army during and before World War Two. We
question it is a masquerade for Japan Bashing.
If it truly represented all abused women during war, then why did they
omit South Koreans who abused women in Vietnam and South Korea?
The reply in
the film states the Korean Consulate in Vietnam has been supporting Vietnamese
women who were raped by the Korean soldiers during the Vietnam War.
Reply:
The
fakeumentary left out the money Japan paid to South Korea in 1965 to cover in
part this issue. In addition another
round of money was paid by Japan to South Korea a few years ago. Both payments ignored by this faekumentary.
Mentioned
the Yasukuni Shrine which has nothing to do with the Comfort Women issue,
however is a point of contention with China and SK.
Reply:
The Yasukuni
Shrine was used only to inflame the criticism of Japan by Korea and China as
they both continually vilify that Shrine.
A person
said Prime Minister Abe visiting the Yasukuni Shrine is equivalent to a German
chancellor visiting the tomb of Adolf Hitler.
Reply:
Really? That equivalence is vacant. Adolf Hitler’s tomb does not exists. In 1970 the Soviets crushed Hitler’s remains and
discarded them in a river. Now where
exactly is that tomb? It was just an
attempt to paint Prime Minister with Hitler.
Then
compared the Yasukuni Shrine to the USA Arlington National Cemetery. Stating okay for US presidents to visit
Arlington National Cemetery because it is a secular cemetery. However wrong for Japanese politicians to
visit the Yasukuni Shrine because it is religious.
Reply:
Remember the
director/producer with Japanese heritage was born and raised in the USA. Currently liberals in the USA are on a
campaign to eradicate any religious symbolism from the face of the
country. Being critical of the Yasukuni
Shrine as being a religious institution is a glaring example of trying to
import the destructive sickness of American liberalism into Japan.
Past
apologies not acceptable because they only take moral responsibilities instead
of legal responsibilities. That would
allow Comfort Women to be compensated. Tried
to compare it to in 1988 the USA compensated Americans of Japanese ancestry
interned in the USA during WW2.
Reply:
Since when
is an apology delineated between “moral” and “legal?” Either one accepts the apology for its face
value or reject it. Trying to dissect an
apology is nothing but a diversion to minimize it.
In the USA
currently almost 100% of the population would agree it was proper to compensate
Americans of Japanese ancestry for being interned during World War Two. However no such percentage would agree in
Japan to paying further compensation to the Comfort Women.
At 58:58 in
the video is illustrated a Comfort Women’s bank account showing money
made.
Reply:
This is
where the film should have ended as it invalidates any claims of forced sexual
servitude prior and after this point. Since
when do sex slaves get to have bank accounts?
Sex slaves were allowed to amass considerable amounts of money? Sex slaves were allowed to travel into town
to establish bank accounts and make continued deposits? All this part of the fakeumentary did was to illustrate
the portion of U.S. Army 1944 report Number 49, writing the Comfort Women were “well
paid prostitutes” as being an historical fact.
Thank you very much.
Said opposition
solely based on US Army report 49 from 1944.
Reply:
We have
other government documents and video to support what we say. We have U.S. military documents from the
U.S.A. National Archives outside Washington, DC, in College Park. These documents detail how many Koreans ran
these independent Comfort Women stations.
Also detailing the daily life of these recruited prostitutes. In addition proof of film from the Archives
claimed by South Koreans as forced Comfort Women proof, was not true to their fact
less narrative.
Film stated
in 1997 Comfort Women issue was added to Japan Junior High text books causing
revisionists to protest. Then by 2012
the Comfort Women issue was erased by every text book.
Devoted an
inordinate amount of time concerning how Japan covered this issue in their
textbooks.
Reply:
However did
not review how the subject was addressed in South Korean textbooks, if in their
books.
Another claim
made: Japan ranked 72nd in press freedom index. The Index prepared by “Reporters Without
Borders.” As of 05/03/219 Japan ranks
67.
Reply:
Proof “Reporters
Without Borders” figure is an hallucination:
The USA is ranked at number 48.
Meaning 47 countries enjoy greater press freedom than the USA. The USA may not be number one, but is
certainly not number 48. During the last
two years the near full press in the USA both in print and media have been
anti-President Trump. On a daily bases
reporting innuendos as fact, and groundless criticism. How come if the USA is 48th in
press freedom no attempt was made by President Trump or the government to
silence this bias fake reporting?
A few years
ago there was a press conference in Tokyo at the Foreign Correspondence Club of
Japan (FCCP). The press conference was
with a Mr. David Kaye. Mr. Kaye is with
the United Nations Human Rights Committee in the capacity of “UN Special Rapporteur.”
At this
press conference Mr. Kaye expressed the following concerns in reference to
Japan:
1 – Freedom
of the press, government interference
2 – Freedom
of expression suffers under government scrutiny.
Freedom of
the Press in Japan: Mr. David Kaye
conducted a news conference in Tokyo (which is Japan) with a room full of
correspondents from Japanese news organizations. Subsequently Mr. Kaye’s concerns were
reported throughout Japan. How’s
that? You read that correctly.
Complaining
the Japanese government hinders a free press in Japan is reported by the
hindered press throughout Japan. That
press conference and the report of it in essence canceled any concern in
reference of a free press facing government oppression in Japan. How does one complain about freedom of the
press in Japan by holding a press conference in Japan?
Mr. Dezaki
questions why is the Comfort Women statue issue so important to Prime Minister Abe
and the right-wing?
Reply:
Simple: The Comfort Women statue place in other countries,
such as the USA, is a pure form of unadulterated form of Japan bashing. If there was a college course titled “Japan
Bashing 101,” this would be the first chapter in the text book. Prime Minister Abe as the chief executive of
his country is responsible for maintaining a positive image of the nation and
combat Japan bashing.
NHK is a public
television broadcasting company in Japan owed by the government.
NHK held a
televised tribunal on the Comfort Women issue.
In their wrap up summarization it was stated:
“The emperor
knew or should have known,” of the Comfort Women system.
“He failed
to do his duty and as such is criminally libel”
The narrator
complained NHK which is government owned, was pressured by Prime Minister Abe
to edit the NHK tribunal.
Reply:
I ask: Censorship
or quality control? I write it is
quality control.
How can one
be one be held responsible for something they “should have known?” How is that reasonably determined?
A lady who
was said to be a “rising star in the revisionist movement” was interviewed.
She
disagreed with the South Korean Comfort Women view. A friend showed her “irrefutable evidence” of
the Nanking massacre. She then viewed
other claims by Nationalist more skeptical such as the Comfort Women issue.
Reply:
How was she
shown “irrefutable evidence?” What form
was this “evidence?” Did the ghost of “Christmas
Past” from the novel “A Christmas Carol” take her back to 1937 Nanking, China?
Narrator: “Shun claims he is not racists, but I found
this on his Facebook page:
‘they are
really scum of the earth. Just like sa….’
That was a
reply to someone who wrote:
‘koreans are
such pitiful ridiculous plastic beings.’”
Reply:
This
exchange was in September, 2013. The narrator
did not put this exchange in its full context.
The Koreans insulted could have been those critical of Japan and
promoting a questionable narrative on the Comfort Women issue. The narrator chose not to place the quote in
its full context, leading the viewers to be misled.
Next the fakeumentary
claims Ms. Yamamoto was a member of the racists group Zaitokukai.
Reply:
Note “was,”
a member. If she was a member, then she
evolved as most critical thinking adults do, we evolve. Ms. Yamamoto had to be discredited because of
her work at the UN in Geneva and summiting books with documentation to the UN
in Paris.
Narrator
states reason for lack of Japanese historical documents supporting the forced
servitude. There was a directive from
Tokyo ordering units to burn documents that would be damaging to foreign relations. It’s estimated about 7% of Japan’s wartime
records were burned.
Reply:
Really? Then how come volumes of documents were found
and used at the war time trials? It was
normal for retreating armies to destroy documents to prevent an advancing
adversary to obtain them. Are we to
believe the 7% destroyed dealt with the Comfort Women issue? Meaning the Japanese destroyed Comfort Women
documents while leaving for the Allies documents that led to some Japanese
being executed after the Tokyo War time’s trials. Nonsense.
Narrator
claims Japan was held responsible for not following an international convention
it did not approve or participate in because other countries followed it.
Reply:
No reply
necessary at the comment itself is pure idiocy.
Claimed in
the fakeumentary Chinese have nothing to do with promoting Comfort Women
issue.
Reply:
At the Comfort
Women statue dedication in Brookhaven, Georgia, USA, a former Comfort Women who
spoke was an official in the Chinese government, meaning she is a communist. (Kang
Il-chul). How can anyone trust or
believe anything a Communist would say. In
addition her speaking at this event proves China did and does have a lot to do
with this issue.
We are willing
to debate anyone on this issue, anywhere, and show our documentation. While the other side has zero
documentation. Other than by their own
admission inconsistent testimony.
It is obvious
watching Mr. Dezaki’s work, he was playing for the approval of a Korean
audience.
At the end of the fakeumentary Mr. Dezaki, the American born of
Japanese heritage said the following in an attempt to salvage his reputation
with a Japanese audience:
“Finally I would like to address the Japanese viewers, as an American
it is not my place to tell you if remilitarization is right for your
country. But remember what
remilitarization inevitably means for Japan that will be fighting in the wars
the United States starts. And so please
ask yourselves: Do you really want to
fight in a war started by my country? “
Japan is not looking to “remilitarization.” Japan is looking to upgrade their military
capability due to the threats from Communist China, Communist North Korea, and
the possibility of another Democrat in The White House who will deplete the USA
military.
Mr. Dezake turned his faekumentary into an anti-USA, anti-Japan piece
of propaganda. He ended with an
anti-American theme borrowing from a USA vaudeville paraphrased term:
“Leave ‘em laughing.”
Meaning end the show on a positive note, and that is what the audience
would remember. Thinking here an anti-USA
message would be received positively in Japan.
Were we a victim of deception?
Is this a documentary or a fakumentary?
Previous fakeumentary videos:
The fakeumentary website:
The fakeumentary’s trailers:
The producer’s Facebook:
The producer’s YouTube channel:
The producer’s YouTube channel:
Historical prostitution in Korea:
Additional Comfort Women videos:
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