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NEWS: France's Angoulême Comics Festival Displays Comfort Women Manhwa

Heheheh, don't forget just a few days ago:

http://www.tokyoweekender.com/2014/01/nhk-boss-stirs-controversy-over-comfort-women-remarks/

• Katsuto Momii, the new head of NHK, caused a media storm just days after taking over the reins of the Japanese national broadcaster after remarking that the use of wartime sex slaves were not particular to Japan.
  
  Speaking at his first press conference as NHK chairman, Momii said the Japanese army’s use of so-called “comfort women” during World War II was common practice in any country at war.
  
  “The comfort women system is considered wrong under today’s moral values. But the military comfort women system existed as a reality at that time,” Momii said, adding that international anger was “puzzling.”
  
  “Such women could be found in any nation that was at war, including France and Germany.”
  

That's why there's this skirmish right now.

enurtsol wrote:

Heheheh, don't forget just a few days ago: http://www.tokyoweekender.com/2014/01/nhk-boss-stirs-controversy-over-comfort-women-remarks/ Katsuto Momii, the new head of NHK, caused a media storm just days after taking over the reins of the Japanese national broadcaster after remarking that the use of wartime sex slaves were not particular to Japan. Speaking at his first press conference as NHK chairman, Momii said the Japanese army’s use of so-called “comfort women” during World War II was common practice in any country at war. “The comfort women system is considered wrong under today’s moral values. But the military comfort women system existed as a reality at that time,” Momii said, adding that international anger was “puzzling.” “Such women could be found in any nation that was at war, including France and Germany.” That's why there's this skirmish right now.

Well.. he's not exactly wrong. Pretty much every country were raping women that back in the day, or not-so-back-in-the-day like in Iraq. War is pretty terrible in general and people do awful things when they're conditioned to see opposing sides as enemies rather than human beings.

enurtsol wrote:

Heheheh, don't forget just a few days ago: http://www.tokyoweekender.com/2014/01/nhk-boss-stirs-controversy-over-comfort-women-remarks/ Katsuto Momii, the new head of NHK, caused a media storm just days after taking over the reins of the Japanese national broadcaster after remarking that the use of wartime sex slaves were not particular to Japan. Speaking at his first press conference as NHK chairman, Momii said the Japanese army’s use of so-called “comfort women” during World War II was common practice in any country at war. “The comfort women system is considered wrong under today’s moral values. But the military comfort women system existed as a reality at that time,” Momii said, adding that international anger was “puzzling.” “Such women could be found in any nation that was at war, including France and Germany.” That's why there's this skirmish right now.

Well.. he's not exactly wrong. Pretty much every country were raping women that back in the day, or not-so-back-in-the-day like in Iraq. War is pretty terrible in general and people do awful things when they're conditioned to see opposing sides as enemies rather than human beings.

Heheheh, don't forget just a few days ago:

http://www.tokyoweekender.com/2014/01/nhk-boss-stirs-controversy-over-comfort-women-remarks/

• Katsuto Momii, the new head of NHK, caused a media storm just days after taking over the reins of the Japanese national broadcaster after remarking that the use of wartime sex slaves were not particular to Japan.
  
  Speaking at his first press conference as NHK chairman, Momii said the Japanese army’s use of so-called “comfort women” during World War II was common practice in any country at war.
  
  “The comfort women system is considered wrong under today’s moral values. But the military comfort women system existed as a reality at that time,” Momii said, adding that international anger was “puzzling.”
  
  “Such women could be found in any nation that was at war, including France and Germany.”
  

That's why there's this skirmish right now.
(At least they haven't said anything about Harry Potter and Nazis yet.)

I know Japan was in the wrong, but it seems like Korean groups are just trying to kick the Japanese when they're down, because of the Fukushima disaster.

As some say before, the use of comfort women was extremely common, to the point it was necessary. During WWII, soldiers from any nation stationed at different countries were bound to stress over due to the imminent threat of death, injury, and being captured by the opposite side, and not only about themselves, but their fellow soldiers and friends, as well as the fact they were far from home and their families. Due to this, the many governments sent money and women to these soldiers, so that they'd forget about their own problems, or at least ease them by means of sex, women, and other forms of "entertainment" (remember those singers going from camp to camp? There was even a movie about this).

This, however, didn't take into consideration the other party, in other words, those who were supposed to offer said "entertainment". In many cases, they weren't even paid, but were forced to do it either because the country told them it was for "their country and the future", or because they were taken and abused (though records may show them as being paid for).

Because of the above, I was VERY surprised that Korea would demand compensation and apologies from Japan due to the comfort women used by the Japanese government at the time, it's as if the Koreans never used comfort women, which is obviously false. At the same time, Japan offered apologies at the time WWII ended, as well as recently, when they didn't have to (unless new information surfaces revealing stuff they didn't apologise and pay for).
The Japanese have done inhumane things during WWII, and before that, but I believe they have already paid for them, and dearly, by Little Boy and Fat Man. Due to these, they even changed the whole philosophy of their country and their society. What's more, most of the people who did those decisions that doomed so many people are dead, and their ideals with them; today's Japan has only a faint trace of the "evil" of that time, and they can't be held responsible for things that were not in their power to control, all those things being in the past, when most of the present-day Japanese weren't even born.

Then again, I, and most probably all of these people that keep raising the issue about comfort women from Korea have too little information, and as such, both sides (Japan and Korea) have the same value in my eyes, and should have the same value in everyone's eyes, at least, until official documents on the matter are presented or found, and publicly released; the same goes for any testimonies that surface, their stories must be proven to be believable.
Until that time, though, and only if the documents prove the Japanese government did much more damage than what the other countries did, in regards to comfort women, all the talks from the Koreans will be nonsense.

Stop beating the dead horse to ashes already, is what I'd tell them. Give us facts, not demands about apologies and compensations.

South Korea and their BS again. Japan has already said it's fair share on this matter countless times and even paid compensation to the woman who were allegedly involved in the incident. However, the South Korean government used that money to fuel more propaganda instead of giving it to the woman who demanded the compensation.

This is exactly like how China's claim that Japan has not mended it's ways when they have already apologized countless number of times over the past few decades.

Also, if you were to actually read history textbooks from South Korea, China and Japan, you'd know that Japan's textbooks are the most neutral and least biased out of the 3 countries.

Well.. he's not exactly wrong. Pretty much every country were raping women that back in the day, or not-so-back-in-the-day like in Iraq. War is pretty terrible in general and people do awful things when they're conditioned to see opposing sides as enemies rather than human beings.

This. Also, he's not a even a freaking politician. So what now, we're going to scrutinize the words of every single individual. I swear, only the Japanese get scrutinized for crap like this and that is freaking ridiculous. Nobody's saying what they did during WW2 was right but sheesh, talk about dwelling on the past.

Where countries like Taiwan, Indonesia, Malayasia, Singapore and etc(countries that were under Japanese rule in WW2) have moved on and have extremely good relations with Japan, South Korea and China just love to get stuck in the past.

What's even more ironic is that there were many South Koreans who volunteered to serve the Japanese Imperial army, one of which is the father of SKorean's current president, Park Guen Hye.