Thread by @aino87445630

@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".

You are the one who has not kept up on the comfort women controversy.
asiatimes.com/2019/09/korean…

@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.”

@ECMcLaughlin Lee’s research indicates that many of the comfort women were, in fact, poor peasant girls sold to civilian human traffickers.

@ECMcLaughlin “Parents or guardians had to sign an agreement to allow girls to work for brothels,” he said. When “pimps went to low-income and remote areas with large sums,” parents, who “could not afford three meals a day” literally sold their daughters on contracts"

@ECMcLaughlin "Comfort Women of the Empire" by Professor Park Yuha
scholarsinenglish.blogspot.com/2014/10/summar…
"Comfort stations
In wars, soldiers sometimes rape innocent women.

To prevent from happening, the Japanese military used existing brothels in Manchuria as comfort stations in the early 1930s.

@ECMcLaughlin Japanese brothel operators recruited women in Japan.
They owned and operated comfort stations employing Japanese women.

Korean brothel operators recruited women in Korea.
They owned and operated comfort stations employing Korean women."

@ECMcLaughlin mintpressnews.com/comfort-women-…
You criticize Japan for the use of Korean civilian-run brothels by Japanese soldiers.

So why do you ignore the existence of Korean military-run comfort women for US soldiers that lasted until the 1980s?

@ECMcLaughlin Right after the war, there were many cases of U.S. soldiers kidnapping Korean civilian women using jeeps and military dogs, raping them for a week, and then abandoning them.
The US soldiers called it "Hunting".

@ECMcLaughlin And in response to complaints from the Koreans,
the South Korean military built and ran brothels for American soldiers.

Has the US ever apologized and compensated "the comfort women for the US soldiers"?

@ECMcLaughlin Even though prostitution was legal at the time and these women were hired by private contractors and were paid more than military officers, Japan apologized and compensated them total 20 million yen (USD20 million) per person for using civilian-run brothels.

@ECMcLaughlin Comfort women for US soldiers have now started a lawsuit against the US.

See what will happen.

There is no way that the US will not pay these women, right?

@ECMcLaughlin And also within a month of landing in Japan after the WW2, American soldiers raped over 10,000 ordinary Japanese women in public and in front of their families.

There are more than 5,000 mixed-race children born by rape of American soldiers in Japan.

@ECMcLaughlin The rape by American soldiers was so severe that Japanese civilians built brothels for American soldiers.

To protect civilian women, geishas offered to become prostitutes for American soldiers.

The U.S. has never apologized to the women who were victimized.

@ECMcLaughlin Of course, the US has never compensated women who were raped by US soldiers.

And you Americans are denouncing the Japanese for using civilian-run brothels to cover up your own country's crimes of raping ordinary women.

This is nothing but Racism targeting the Japanese.