@ECMcLaughlin His paper is almost identical to the findings of Lee Young-hoon (Former prof of Seoul Univ "Anti-Japanese Tribalism" & Park Yuha (Prof.of Sejong Univ "Comfort Women of the Empire".
@ECMcLaughlin Lee Young-hoon: Former professor of Seoul University (South Korea) disputes the “sex slave” narrative, stating that comfort women were contracted sex workers.
– a profession legal in the Japanese Empire. They enjoyed some freedom of movement and were paid.
@ECMcLaughlin “’Sex slave" is very political terminology,” he said.
“We found operational rules and regulations for comfort stations.
These rules were adhered to and many women from Korea and Japan were able to save up for their lives after service.”
@RWPUSA Everyone knew that wartime prostitutes in Europe and Asia existed.
In the 1980s, comfort women issue has started by an article in the Asahi Shimbun that said "the Japanese military forcibly taken Korean women and used them as prostitutes.
@RWPUSA The reporter who wrote that article was the son-in-law of a Korean comfort women group leader(Former wartime prostitute)
In 2014, the Asahi Shimbun finally admitted that the article was a fabrication, and its president resigned. asahi.com/articles/SDI20…