Addressing historical accuracy in such a highly contentious issue is difficult for anyone, especially when it concerns Koreans.
However, such a claim must be based on truth, for without it, one loses moral rights to the claim in its entirety.
@JeannieSGersen Meanwhile, China, North Korea and the leftist forces in both South Korea and Japan have been conspiring to undermine freedom in South Korea, with the intention to target South Korea’s neighbors next.
@JeannieSGersen Domestically, they have been oppressing the rights of those who believe in individual sovereignty.
There are enough South Koreans who believe that the common path of Korea and Japan lies in the future, not the past.
@JeannieSGersen We want to forge close ties with our allies, the US and Japan, in the face of totalitarian forces engulfing Northeast Asia.
We must work together to address anti-Japanism that is destabilizing Northeast Asian security.
@JeannieSGersen The first step is to address the issue of historical accuracy.
If we want to get to the truth, then the foundation must also be based on the truth."
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
@ABlinken@SecBlinken@StateDept_GCJ@StateDept
Yoon Mee Hyang, an executive of the comfort women org who was indicted for donation fraud last year, revealed this.
When Lee Yong soo first called me, she said.
"I am not a comfort woman, but a friend of mine was."
@Paul_Kreitman@astanley711 What do you mean by ”Brutal Sakoku””?
You know why Japan closed off, don't you?
First came the Jesuit missionaries, then the merchants, they began to trade the Japanese as slaves.
The shogun bought back the Japanese, forbade Christianity, and closed the country.
@Paul_Kreitman@astanley711 For the Jesuit missionaries, the spearhead of colonization, Christianity was just a tool to divide and colonize Japan.
Scorsese's movie "Silence" does not depict this at all.
The Japanese were fortunate to have such a general.
Otherwise, Japan would have become a colony of Europe
@Paul_Kreitman@astanley711 Now in Japan, American scholars who have studied Japan with scholarships from Japan have bad reputation for tweeting stupid and childish things under their Real Names.
During the Vietnam War, South Korean soldiers abducted, imprisoned, and massively raped Vietnamese civilian women.
The rape resulted in the birth of Lai Dai Hans.
They have demanded an apology from South Korea, but South Korean government has ignored them. bbc.co.uk/news/extra/lhr…
@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.