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@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani Mr. Ishii was referring to the refutation of Prof.Ramseyer's article on comfort women written by Western Edo period researchers and gender researchers.

The Japanese military contracted with Civilian-Run Brothels to prevent the rape of civilian women,
not with individual women.

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani If the treatment of these women was poor, contrary to the contract between the women and the brothel owner, it is the private brothel owner who should be blamed, right?

The people who wrote the rebuttal to Professor Ramseyer did not even understand this.

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani On the Korean peninsula, Korean brothel owners were collecting Korean women.
In Japan, Japanese brothel owners were collecting Japanese women.

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani Professor Ramseyer was writing about the basic system of contracts between the Japanese military and civilian-run comfort stations ,and Between comfort station oeners and the women employed by them, not about Irregular Cases that violated the law.

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani If you are going to use one article from the BBC and make assertions as if this one article is all fact, let me tell you something.

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani In the middle of the night on April 4, 1946, 50 U.S. soldiers riding in three military trucks broke into Nakamura Hospital in Omori Ward, Tokyo, and at the whistle of an order, gang raped 40 female patients and 37 female staff members in about an hour.

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani One of the rape victims, a two-year-old baby girl, was knocked to the floor and died afterwards, and a male staff member who intervened was also killed.

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani On April 11, 1946, between 30 and 60 U.S. soldiers invaded a residential neighborhood in Nagoya, cut the local telephone lines, and simultaneously entered each house to rape women between the ages of 10 and 55.

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani The Commonwealth occupation forces of UK,AU,NZ also committed massive rapes.
Australian soldiers abducted and raped a large number of young women using jeeps as soon as they landed in Kure, Hiroshima, in 1946.

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani In the vicinity of the garrison, the residents heard the women crying out for help every night.
In some cases, a single girl was gang-raped by more than 20 soldiers.

You presented one BBC article, but there are plenty of records of crimes committed by Allied soldiers in Japan.

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani You never accuse the Japanese POW abuse, murder, and gang rape of Japanese civilian women by the victorious country's soldiers, but only accuse the Japanese military.

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani Isn't "Victorious country's Soldiers raping Defeated country's Civilian Women as Trophies" the most despicable War Crime?

However, Western Gender Researchers never talk about the victimization of Japanese women.

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani In WW1, soldiers used the same brothels as civilians, which led to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and adversely affected the troops. Not only Japanese troops, but also European troops had contracts with brothels.

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani The Soviet did not have such a system, the soviet soldiers massively raped civilian women wherever they went.

https://twitter.com/hiro94655/status/1366387617718104069?s=20

In order to prevent this, the Japanese military contracted with civilian run brothels.

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani The comfort women issue is a matter of National Honor.

Why do you denounce only Japan, even though European armies had a similar system?

Everyone knew about the existence of comfort women and wartime prostitutes.
Comfort women also appeared in films depicting the war.

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani Mr Uemura,the son-in-law of a comfort women group leader, was a reporter for the Asahi Shimbun.
His articles in the 1980s started the comfort women issue.
He wrote, "The Japanese military hunted Korean women on Jeju Island and turned them into prostitutes.

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani Then in 2014, after completely destroying Japan-Korea relations, the Asahi Shimbun admitted that his article was a fabrication, apologized for destroying Japan-Korea relations, and its president resigned.
asahi.com/articles/SDI20…

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani The comfort women issue was already overturned from the ground up here.
asahi.com/articles/SDI20…
South Korean scholars began to say that "the comfort women issue had been spread ,used by "conscience foreigners" and contribute to worsen Japan-South Korea relations.

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani However, they are using the common sense of today, when prostitution has been outlawed, to criticize prostitution in the days when it was legal.
Furthermore, they never accuse about "the military and sex" in other countries, but accuse only in Japan.
That would not be fair.

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani If you admit even to fabrications and say "the Japanese military was bad" in order to be recognized as a sensible intellectual, then you are no better than Mr. Uemura.

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani You try not to spread that soldiers in your country have raped a large number of non-prostitute ordinary Japanese women because it is a shame for your country

@shaunodwyer @SzendiChelsea @SayakaChatani On the other hand, you Westerners intentionally misrepresent the Japanese military's contract with a civilian-owned brothel as "rape" or "sex slave", and spreading.

Don't you think it's seriously damage the honor of the Japanese?

This is nothing but pure racism.