Japan is criticized over the so called comfort women problem which was happened in the war. Koreans against
Japan over the comfort women issue said that they, prostitutes for Japanese military, were forced into prostitution
as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military organization. Korean-Americans built a Comfort Women statue
in Glendale in California in 2013. The Comfort Women story is so sad. But criminals were not the Japanese soldiers.
Bruce Cumings wrote in his book as follows: “Many Korean women were mobilized to serve (as prostitutes) by Korean
men.”Many researchers and scholars have studied the issues, but what they found were very different from the Korean
accusations. Please read some newspaper article which were published in wartime.
(1)Japanese police in Korea rescued about 50 women who were being mobilized as prostitutes to North China and
Manchuria by a Korean human trafficking gang, published in 1939 March 28 by the Dong-a Ilbo newspaper.
