"A $30 million US Government Study specifically searched for evidence on Comfort Women allegations.
After nearly seven years with many dozens of staff pouring through US archives -- and 30 million dollars down the drain -- we found a grand total of nothing."
"The final IWG report to Congress was issued in 2007. (Linked below.)
Nobody should be writing about Comfort Women issues without reading this report cover to cover." archives.gov/iwg/reports/fi…
Over 50 women were deceived by a Korean trafficker (Bae Jang-eon 배장언) and sent to Northern China & Manchuria. He was arrested and the women were rescued by Japanese policemen.
June 30, 1933 Donga Ilbo
A girl was kidnapped from the street by Korean traffickers (Park Myeong-dong & Lee Seong-nyeo)
May 14, 1936 Maeil Shinbo
Traffickers (Korean comfort station owners' agents) were arrested by police for deceiving women from farming villages. Four women were rescued.
August 31, 1939 Donga Ilbo
Over 100 women from farming villages were deceived
by Korean traffickers (Kim Ok-man 김옥만 & his family)
They were arrested and the women were rescued by Japanese policemen.
July 9, 1936 Maeil Shinbo
Three Korean traffickers (Hwang Geum-jeong, Park Geum-hee & Lee Deok-sun) were arrested for deceiving innocent girls.
The photo below is an order sent by the Japanese military to comfort station operators. It says, "Do not recruit women against their will. Only recruit willing prostitutes."
A number of comfort women statues have been built in the U.S. as a result of tenacious lobbying by the Korean activists. The activists insist that the statues are for all women whose rights were violated in wars and not meant to be anti-Japanese. However, the statues only accuse
the Japanese military and do not mention the South Korean military's atrocities to women.
Asian Women's Fund was established by the Japanese government in 1995. (Compensation came with a personal letter of apology from Prime Minister of Japan) As for Korean women, although they were not coerced by the Japanese military and all individual claims
were settled in the 1965 Japan-South Korea Treaty, the Japanese government still offered Asian Women's Fund to Korean women as a good gesture. Ironically every nation involved except South Korea accepted compensation through Asian Women's Fund and reconciled with Japan.
(Note: The South Korean government and Korean women wanted to accept Asian Women's Fund as well, but the anti-Japanese activist group Chong Dae Hyup threatened Korean women not to accept Japan's apology and compensation so that it could continue its anti-Japanese propaganda
campaign. So most Korean women could not accept Japan's apology and compensation.)