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    Wartime Military Records on Comfort Women
    Wartime Military Records on Comfort Women
    Wartime Military Records on Comfort Women
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    Wartime Military Records on Comfort Women

    By Archie Miyamoto

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    The Japanese military is accused of abducting 200,000 women, mostly from Korea, and using them as sex slaves. WWII military records provide a completely different perspective.  This is a compilation of primary source documents, mostly WWII military records of U.S., Allied, Dutch, Australian and Japanese reports and documents related to comfort women. It also includes and analysis of a diary of a Korean comfort station operator. It provides a true description of the comfort women system based on primary source documents. 

    Archie Miyamoto is a retired U.S. Army infantry officer  who spent 29 years on active duty. He served two combat tours in the Korean war and two tours in Vietnam. On his first tour in Vietnam, he commanded a helicopter gunship platoon and was wounded twice. On his second, he served as a U.S. liaison officer to the armored cavalry regiment of the Korean Tiger Division. He served two tours as a military advisor to the Chinese military on Taiwan. On his first tour he introduced helicopters into the Chinese Army, acquiring fifty helicopters from U.S. Army excess inventory. On his second tour in Taiwan, he was the joint operations training advisor to their Ministry of Defense. On his last overseas tour, he served as the joint defense planning coordinator between the armed forces of Japan and the U.S. On his first tour in Japan as  lieutenant, he was a platoon leader in the famous 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team. He has also served in Germany. After retirement from the military spent over two years in the Middle East as a project manager for a U.S. firm. After returning to the U.S.,  he was asked to join a Japanese corporation in Los Angeles. A few years ago, he retired as its president/chairman, and remained in the capacity of a consultant until last year. He is now completely retired and resides in Los Angeles.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Yon
    Release dateJan 31, 2017
    ISBN9781386875376
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      It’s deplorable that local governments are allowing the erection of comfort women monuments. It is alleged by some Korean factions that Korean women were used as sex slaves by the Japanese military during the Second World War – this has not been incontrovertibly proven. Through many official military reports, the United States Military, in its independent investigation during and after the war, refutes this allegation. What emerges more as fact is that the Korean women and those of other ethnicities including Japanese women, were legally paid prostitutes. The comfort women syndrome in turn is being used by globalist factions for political reasons. It enhances the notion of women in general being used as sex objects by the usual brutal macho men. This tends to enhance the already inordinate empowerment of women, the movements (not all of course) that are clearly anti-male, thereby creating further divisions between men and women. The globalists can also use the comfort women syndrome to further create a political demonization of Japan and also its ally, the United States. As I write this comment, the city of Brookhaven which is in the outskirts of Atlanta, is proceeding with another monument – our American cities are becoming useful tools for more division and chaos based on a dangerous globalist agenda. GOD HELP AMERICA!

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    Wartime Military Records on Comfort Women - Archie Miyamoto

    WARTIME MILITARY RECORDS ON COMFORT WOMEN

    Compilation of U.S./Allied/Dutch/Japanese Military Documents

    By Archie Miyamoto, Lt Col, U.S. Army, Retired

    2d Edition, April 2017

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Background Information on the Comfort Women Issue

    Summary of Contents

    U.S./Allied Military Documents

    ATIS (Allied Translator and Interpreter Section) Interrogation Reports

    Office of Strategic Services [OSS – forerunner of CIA] Reports

    Brothels of Japan’s Armed Forces in Southeast Asia

    U.S. National Archives Interagency Working Group’s Final Report to U.S.

    Congress on War Crimes Records

    Dutch Military Reports

    The Bart von Poelgeest Report

    Comfort Women Dutch War Crimes Cases

    Dutch Interrogation Reports

    Comments on Indonesia

    Australian War Crimes Trials

    Japanese Government/Military Documents

    Japanese Foreign Ministry Documents

    Other Japanese Military Documents

    Other Japanese Military Records

    Korean Original Source Documents

    Concluding Remarks

    List of WWII Reports/Documents

    Introduction

    This compilation of extracts from wartime military documents during and immediately after WWII provides unbiased primary source information related to comfort women. It includes:

    U.S./Allied wartime interrogation reports of Japanese soldiers, comfort women and comfort station operators.

    Military translations of captured documents.

    War Crimes trials records related to comfort women.

    Excerpts from a Dutch government study on recruitment of prostitutes in the Dutch East Indies and Dutch military interrogation reports.

     Australian Records of War Crimes trials.

    Japanese foreign ministry and military documents, including handwritten unit journals and regulations related to the issue.

    Original Korean records. This includes an analysis by a Korean professor of a diary of a Korean manager of a comfort station in Burma and in Singapore.

    The purpose of this compilation is neither to defend nor condemn Japan’s use of the comfort women system. Prostitution was legal at the time and that is a separate issue. This compilation is to determine the scope and nature of the comfort women system and the volunteer or involuntary status of the women. These original documents provide detailed, objective evidence on these questions. Most of the original reports are lengthy and cover material not related to the comfort women issue. Only relevant sections are quoted. Salient points are highlighted in bold letters.

    This compilation is by no means complete and research continues. The military records in this compilation are public domain and therefore free to use by anyone without permission. Copies of documents can be obtained from national archives and other sources. The WAM museum (Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace), a non-governmental museum in Tokyo, which condemns Japan’s use of the comfort women system, has a wealth of Japanese, U.S. and Dutch documents. Its web site is: http://wam-peace.org/koubunsho/index.html

    Attributions are omitted for many of the general comments by the author since they are not considered germane or are common knowledge. The data in the military documents speak for themselves.

    Background Information on the Comfort Women Issue

    Japan is accused of abducting 200,000 women, mostly from Korea, during WWII for its comfort women system. These original documents from WWII reveal the true nature of the comfort women system and provide a totally different perspective. At the same time, they raise questions about why these unproven allegations are brought to the United States. Delving into that will be left to others and only a brief explanation is provided in this introductory chapter and in the concluding remarks. Cursory background information on the relationship between Korea and Japan is provided to assist in understanding why these two nations which are so close in so many ways are so far apart.

     It was common knowledge the Japanese military controlled the association of its troops with prostitutes utilizing what was referred to as a comfort women system and regulated the conduct of brothel owners, prostitutes, and also soldiers. The allegation that the women were abducted sex slaves did not arise until decades after the end of WWII.

    Comfort stations offered various amenities other than prostitutes. Those with prostitutes were referred to as special comfort stations. Most of the women came from Korea and Japan. Some were from Taiwan and China. In many instances, local brothels were also authorized for use by the troops. In Japanese records, these authorized local brothels were sometimes referred to as comfort stations, at other times as brothels and the women as prostitutes. These authorized brothels were required to comply with regulatory standards similar to those of comfort stations.

    The ostensible reason given in the sex slave narrative is that it is about the exploitation of women. This generates sympathy and support, but other than allegations there has been little presentation of original documentation. The testimonial narratives of former comfort women, including those of former Dutch comfort women in Indonesia, do not provide evidence of 200,000 involuntary sex slaves. The existence of comfort women was common knowledge and cases of involuntary recruitment of women were prosecuted as war crimes. The U.S. prosecuted one incident in Guam involving two women who had been coerced into becoming prostitutes by a resident Japanese, the Dutch a few cases by soldiers in Indonesia, Australia none. These cases are contained in this compilation. For decades after WWII, this was not an issue. No one has explained how 200,000 women could be abducted as sex slaves as alleged and kept a secret for decades, especially since involuntary recruitment was considered a war crime and all known cases prosecuted as such. To imply Allied authorities, during over six years of war crimes investigations, failed to uncover the other 200,000 is an insult to the integrity and competence of U.S. and Allied authorities.

     Since Korea was part of the Japanese Empire during WWII, it was not a party to the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty formally ending WWII. In 1965, the Normalization Treaty between South Korea and Japan settled all grievances between the two nations completely and finally. Japan provided $800 million in payment, loans, and assets (equal to billions in

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