以下、なでしこアクションさんからのお知らせです。
カナダ・ウィニペグの人権博物館の捏造慰安婦展示を断固阻止しましょ う！
http://nadesiko-action.org/?page_id=6648
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2014年9月20日、マニトバ州ウィニペグ市にカナダ人権博物館（The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, CMHR）がにオープンします。
ALPHAという反日組織が絡んでいて、CMHRに「WWⅡの最中に、日本軍がアジアの女性を強制的に性奴隷にした」という、例の捏造慰安婦情報 が展示される予定なのです。
TORONTO ALPHAのサイトを調べてみると、理事会のトップは、カナダに帰化しているとは言えど、中国系、 韓国系の人物です。それ以外の人は、重要なポストには就いていません。
そのALPHAがまたまた巨額の資金をつぎ込んで、自称フィリピン慰安婦のローラ・フェデンシア・デービット（祖母ともども１０日間にわたり日本軍に陵辱されたと語っています）をCMHRに連れて来ました。
デービッド証言は本人によるただの口述で、何の証拠もありません。そ れなのに結局デービッドの口述もこの博物館に展示されることになってしまいました。
カナダ政府や自治体も出資しているこの人権博物館が、日本のブラック・プロパガンダを垂 れ流すのを断固阻止しましょう。
是非抗議のメール、手紙にご協力いただけますよう、よろしくお願い申し上ます。
日本の名誉を護る在カナダ邦人の会
代表 はすみ 都志子
以下【The Canadian Museum for Human Rights宛て抗議】と【マスメディア宛て抗議】のメアド、件名例、本文例を纏めてあります。
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【The Canadian Museum for Human Rights宛て抗議】
＜住所＞手紙郵送の場合
Canadian Museum for Human Rights
85 Israel Asper Way
Winnipeg, MB
R3C 0L5
電話 （204）289-2000
ウィニペグ領域外 1-877-877-6037
ファックス（204）289から2001
TTY（204）289から2050
＜CMHR メアド＞
jodi.giesbrecht@museumforhumanrights.ca
research.curation@museumforhumanrights.ca
learning.programming@museumforhumanrights.ca
june.creelman@museumforhumanrights.ca
chandra.erlendson@museumforhumanrights.ca
mireille.lamontagne@museumforhumanrights.ca
info@humanrightsmuseum.ca
＜メール件名例＞
＊ Remove the comfort women exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
＊ We oppose the exhibit regarding comfort women at your museum.
＊ Shut down the comfort women exhibit.
＊ Do your homework before creating an exhibit on comfort women.
＊ Cancel your exhibit regarding comfort women.
＊ Stop your exhibit about comfort women.
＊ We oppose the contents of your comfort women exhibit.
＜本文例 その１＞※文例は８つあります
To Whom It May Concern
Remove the comfort women exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
The U.S. Military official document “Japanese Prisoner of War Interrogation Report No. 49.” explicitly and vividly shows how comfort women were treated. A comfort woman was not a sex slave, but was “nothing more than a prostitute or “professional camp follower”.
LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS
Comfort women lived in near-luxury in Burma in comparison to other places. This was especially true of their second year in Burma. They lived well because their food and material was not heavily rationed and they had plenty of money with which to purchase desired articles. They were able to buy cloth, shoes, cigarettes, and cosmetics to supplement the many gifts given to them by soldiers who had received “comfort bags” from home.
You can view a copy of the report here:
http://nadesiko-action.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Japanese-Prisoner-of-War-Interrogation.pdf
Your website says that ‘The purpose of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is to explore the subject of human rights, with special but not exclusive reference to Canada, in order to enhance the public’s understanding of human rights, to promote respect for others and to encourage reflection and dialogue (Museums Act).’
Why do you not promote respect against Japan?
If you really encourage reflections and dialogue, please consider my opinion.
At least I recommend that you contact the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and get some third party evidence on comfort women. The contact email is archives2reference@nara.gov and the document is stored under the name “ARC Identifier 2144907 / MLR Number NM84 79: Query re Japanese Prisoner of War Interrogation Report #49”.
It states that “A ‘comfort girl’ is nothing more than a prostitute or ‘professional camp follower.
Please note that it may take up to 2 months for the report to arrive by post. It might arrive faster if you request that the report be scanned and emailed to you. It is suggested that you check with NARA to confirm that they have received your request.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：貴館における慰安婦に関する展示を取り去ってください。
米軍慰安婦４９レポートには慰安婦が性奴隷ではなかったことが明確に記されています。（慰安婦レポートの取り寄せ方法）
貴館のサイトには「当館の目的は、人権への理解を高め、他者への尊敬や、省察、対話を促すために人権というテーマを探求することです」と記されているのに、何故日本の人権への配慮、尊敬がないのですか？
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＜本文例 その２＞
To Whom It May Concern
We oppose the exhibit regarding comfort women at your museum.
A Korean comfort woman named Moon Ok-ju, a former prostitute who worked in Burma, visited the Shimonoseki Post Office in Japan to withdraw her savings, and found out her original bank ledger was still there and confirmed. (Note: In Japan, the Japanese Post Office has several banking functions.)
She worked in Burma during a period of two years and three months between June 1943 and September 1945 as a comfort woman, and accumulated a total savings of 26,145 yen in deposits at the military post office. In the 1940s, 5000 yen would have been enough to purchase a house in Tokyo.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：貴館における慰安婦情報の展示に反対します。Moon Ok-juという韓国人慰安婦は下関の郵便局に26,145円（東京に家を五軒買える）を預金していました。彼女の預金通帳はまだ保存、確認されています。
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＜本文例 その3＞
To Whom It May Concern
Shut down the comfort women exhibit.
During the annexation of Korea by Japan, all the mayors of the villages in Korea were Korean. Most of the police officers were Korean. Some Koreans presently insist that 200,000 women were violently abducted by the Japanese military. If so, such a large scale abduction would have been witnessed by neighbours and reported to the police. The Japanese government conducted investigation in response to the testimonial of Korean women but no evidence of abductions was found.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：慰安婦展示を閉鎖してください。日本の韓国併合当時、韓国内の全ての村長は韓国人でした。ほとんどの警察官も韓国人でした。韓国側は二十万人の韓国女性が慰安婦として強制連行されたと主張していますが、そんなことはありえません。
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＜本文例 その4＞
To Whom It May Concern
We oppose your exhibit about comfort women.
The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea was concluded on June 22, 1965. Prior to establishing basic diplomatic relations between Japan and South Korea, a series of bilateral talks (a total of seven talks) were held from October 1951 to June 1965.
Over that period of 14 years, the “comfort women issue” was never brought on the negotiation table. During the talks the Japanese government proposed direct compensation specifically to individuals, but it was the South Korean government that insisted that it would handle individual compensation on behalf of the recipients.
Japan agreed and the Korean government received the whole amount on behalf of citizens. Where did the money go? The money was used up by the Korean government for infrastructure improvement and economic development (such as the Soyanggang Dam, POSCO, the Gyeongbu Expressway).
In 2005, the Korean government disclosed the classified documents, which had been kept confidential for 40 years and the Koreans learned for the first time about the proposal of the Japanese government.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：貴館の慰安婦展示に反対します。1965年に締結された日韓基本条約において、韓国の日本に対する一切の請求権は解決済みで二度と蒸し返されないことが決められています。会談中に、日本政府は、慰安婦個人への直接の補償を提案しましたが、韓国側は政府が受取人を代表して個人補償を扱うと主張しましたので、日本は同意し、結局韓国政府は市民を代表して補償金全額を受け取りました。
しかしそのお金は、韓国の政府によってインフラストラクチャーの改良および経済発展などに使用され、慰安婦個人の手には届きませんでした。
会談中に、日本政府は、慰安婦個人への直接の補償を提案しましたが、韓国側は政府が受取人を代表して個人補償を扱うと主張しましたので、日本は同意し、結局韓国政府は市民を代表して補償金全額を受け取りました。
しかしそのお金は、韓国の政府によってインフラストラクチャーの改良および経済発展などに使用され、慰安婦個人の手には届きませんでした。
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＜本文例 その5＞
To Whom It May Concern
Do your homework before creating an exhibit on comfort women.
The term “comfort women” refers simply to prostitutes in wartime. But some Koreans have long been promoting a “discredit Japan campaign” which promotes a false version of history in which Japan abducted hundreds of thousands of Korean women and coerced them into sexual services for Japanese soldiers outside of Japan during World War II. This is, for practical and logical reasons, a fiction.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：展示について決める前に、良く調べてください。「慰安婦」という言葉は単に戦時中の売春婦のことを指します。しかし韓国のディスカウント・ジャパン計画によって「WW IIの最中に日本軍によって強制的に性奴隷にされた多くの韓国女性という風に捏造されています。これは実際的にも論理的フィクションです。
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＜本文例 その6＞
To Whom It May Concern
Cancel your exhibit regarding comfort women.
It is true that Yohei Kono, the then Chief Cabinet Secretary of the Japanese government, issued in 1993 a statement that during World War II the Japanese military was, directly or indirectly, involved in the establishment and management of brothels and the staffing of these brothels with prostitutes (comfort women) and that in some cases the comfort women were recruited against their own will, through coaxing, coercion, and other means.
However, it must be recognized that at that time in japan and elsewhere in Asia brothels were legal and common. In Japan, each local government (for instance, the Public Health and Hygiene Bureau in Tokyo Prefecture) was responsible for the oversight of brothels in its area. The local police were responsible for apprehending deceitful recruiters and kept watch to ensure that prostitutes were not mistreated. In war zones it was the military authorities who fulfilled these functions, and also exercised their obligation to keep the comfort women safe. Japanese military administrators were simply doing their duty in their oversight of brothels.
In any case, as to the issue of coercion, in June this year the present Japanese government reviewed the Kono statement and its background and some important facts became clear.
First, after the 1992-3 investigation of Japanese ministry and agency records and US archive records, it was concluded that it not possible to confirm that comfort women were forcefully recruited. Second, it was discovered that there was also no investigation performed on the claims of the women who came forward and claimed to be comfort women before the statement was issued.
Despite that lack of evidence, the Kono statement contained an admission that there was coercion. The reason for that was that the contents of the Kono statement were drafted through a process of negotiation with the South Korea government, and the Japanese side was lead to believe that the issuance of a statement which admitted some coercion and the establishment and administration of a compensation fund would finally settle the issue. The admission of coercion was based on the uninvestigated claims of the women who came forward and not on any written record.
The Japanese Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary at the time, Mr.Nobuo Ishihara, told Rui Abiru, a reporter of the Sankei Newspaper, that the South Korean side repeatedly told them that if Japan acknowledged that the Japanese army forced the Korean women to become comfort women, they would accept this issue as resolved, so the Japanese side made such admission on that understanding.
However in fact, the South Korean side has used the Kono statement as the basis for demands for further apologies and compensation so the compromise reached did more harm than good.
The report of this review can be found here: http://www.mofa.go.jp/files/000042171.pdf
This is in accord with the determination made by the cabinet of the first Abe government in 2007 that there was no statement of any coercion by the military in ministry or agency records.
Anti-Japan movements in various Asian countries argue that through the Kono statement, the Japanese government has itself admitted that they forced women to become comfort women. That is nothing but propaganda.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：貴館における慰安婦情報展示を取りやめてください。今年の六月、日本政府は「日本軍による慰安婦の強制連行があった」と謝罪した河野談話を検証し、「日本軍による慰安婦の強制連行を示す証拠は何も見
つからなかったことや、河野談話作成の基となった慰安婦の聞き取り調査の検証もされていなかったこと、河野談話は韓国側との合作であったこと」を明らかにしました
それ以前の2007年にも、第一次安倍内閣において「日本軍による慰安婦の強制連行を裏付ける資料は見つからなかった」という答弁書を閣議決定しています。
アジアの反日国の「河野談話によって、日本政府自らが強制連行を認めている」という主張は、ブラック・プロパガンダに過ぎません。
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＜本文例 その7＞
To Whom It May Concern
We oppose the contents of your comfort women exhibit.
Why are you including in the exhibit the story of Lola Fidencia David? First it is based only on her verbal statements? And how does her story, even if true, provide any support to the claim that the comfort women system was staffed by sex slaves and not by prostitutes?
The people who will see such an exhibit will be misled about the truth.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：慰安婦の展示に反対します。何故自称フィリピン慰安婦のLola Fidencia Davidの展示を許すのですか？それは本人による口述のほか、何の証拠もありません。展示を見る人たちにそれが史実だと誤解させてしまいます。
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＜本文例 その8＞
To Whom It May Concern
Stop your exhibit about comfort women.
According to this article in the Toronto Star, you are organizing an ‘educational campaign’ with Toronto Alpha. http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/10/21/filipino_comfort_woman_still_fighting_for_apology.html
Toronto Alpha is actually a well-funded anti-Japan organization that mixes fabrications with some historical facts. .
Here is some evidence that Toronto Alpha is not trustworthy. The photo exhibition about the so-called Nanking Massacre and comfort women which was held at the Toronto City Hall rotunda from Nov 27th to Dec 2nd, 2012 with photos provided from Toronto Alpha was a fraud. Please look at the photos on this website ( http://www.japantruth.org/ ) and see for yourselves.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：慰安婦情報の展示をやめてください。Toronto Star紙によると貴館はToronto Alphaと教育プログラムを準備しているそうですが、Toronto Alphaが捏造の歴史を流布する反日組織であることをご存知ですか。証拠はこちらです。（2012年、トロント市役所で行われた捏造南京＋慰安婦写真展のサイト）ご覧になってください。
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【マスメディア宛て抗議】
＜マスコミメアド＞
Shane.Minkin@freepress.mb.ca
david.larkins@sunmedia.ca
gosia.sawicka@cbc.ca
dchoquette@globeandmail.com
fornat@thestar.ca
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※文例は４つあります。
＜文例 その１＞
（件名）Canadian Museum for Human Rights infringes Japanese human rights.
（本文）
To whom it may concern
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) is opening this September and they are going to exhibit some propaganda about Japan.
The CMHR says that they “will be exploring how before and during the Second World War, the imperial Japanese military established a system of sexual slavery that forced women in occupied territories to provide sexual service to soldiers. The term ‘Comfort Women’ or ‘Comfort System’ was used as a euphemism to distort the reality that this was a system of mass sexual abuse under the purview of the Imperial Army.”
But that is not true.
There are many primary sources that show they are wrong and one of them is a report written in 1944 (ten months before the end of World War II) by the U.S. Army.
It summarizes the U.S. Army’s interrogation of some comfort women captured in Burma. They were “captured” and not “freed,” because they were with the Japanese Imperial Army in Burma fleeing from the advancing U.S. military.
It states that “A ‘comfort girl’ is nothing more than a prostitute or ‘professional camp follower’, and they are well paid. The women had the right to refuse any customer.”
The contact email for the U.S. Army report is archives2reference@nara.gov and the document is stored under the name “ARC Identifier 2144907 / MLR Number NM84 79: Query re Japanese Prisoner of War Interrogation Report #49”.
Please note that it may take up to 2 months for the report to arrive by post. It might arrive faster if you request that the report be scanned and emailed to you. It is suggested that you check with NARA to confirm that they have received your request.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：今年九月開館予定の人権博物館は、日本が第二次世界大戦中にアジアの女性を強制連行し性奴隷にしたという情報を展示する予定ですが、それは史実ではありません。米国公文書館に保存されている米軍による慰安婦レポートによれば、彼女たちは高給取りの売春婦に過ぎません。（慰安婦レポートの取り寄せ方法）
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＜文例 その２＞
（件名）The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) is exhibiting a story without any objective evidence.
（本文）
To Whom It May Concern
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) has informed us that they will be holding exhibits about Ms. Lola Fidencia David who says she was force to be a comfort woman for the Japanese army during the World War Ⅱ.
The story of Lola Fidencia David based only on her verbal statements.
The people who will see such an exhibit will be misled about the truth.
I protest that the CMHR is going to use Canadian tax money for that.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：CMHRは自称フィリピン慰安婦・Lola Fidencia Davidの展示を許する予定ですが、その内容は本人による口述に過ぎず、何の証拠もありません。展示を見る人たちにそれが史実だと誤解させてしまいます。
CMHRがそのようなことにカナダ人の税金を使うことに抗議します。
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＜文例 その3＞
（件名）
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) is going to exhibit fabricated history with Canadian tax money.
（本文）
To Whom It May Concern
The CMHR is planning to exhibit propaganda that the imperial Japanese military established a system of sexual slavery that forced women in occupied territories to provide sexual service to soldiers. The museum claims that the terms ‘Comfort Women’ or ‘Comfort System’ were used as euphemisms to distort the reality that this was a system of mass sexual abuse under the purview of the Imperial Army.’ None of that is true.
It is true that Yohei Kono, the then Chief Cabinet Secretary of the Japanese government, issued in 1993 a statement that during World War II the Japanese military was, directly or indirectly, involved in the establishment and management of brothels and the staffing of these brothels with prostitutes (comfort women) and that in some cases the comfort women were recruited against their own will, through coaxing, coercion, and other means.
As to the issue of coercion, in June of this year the present Japanese government reviewed the Kono statement and its background and some important facts became clear.
First, after the 1992-3 investigation of Japanese ministry and agency records and US archive records, it was concluded that it not possible to confirm that comfort women were forcefully recruited. Second, it was discovered that there was also no investigation performed on the claims of the women who came forward and claimed to be comfort women before the statement was issued.
This is in accord with the determination made by the cabinet of the first Abe government in 2007 that there was no statement of any coercion by the military in ministry or agency records.
Anti-Japan movements in various Asian countries argue that through the Kono statement, the Japanese government has itself admitted that they forced women to become comfort women. That is nothing but propaganda.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：CMHRは「日本軍はＷＷⅡ中にアジアの女性を慰安婦として強制連行した」という情報を展示予定ですが、それはプロパガンダに過ぎません。今年の六月、日本政府は河野談話を検証し、「日本軍による慰安婦の強制連行を示す証拠は何も見つからなかったことや、河野談話作成の基となった慰安婦の聞き取り調査の検証もされていなかったこと、河野談話は韓国側との合作であったこと」を明らかにしました
それ以前の2007年にも、第一次安倍内閣において「日本軍による慰安婦の強制連行を裏付ける資料は見つからなかった」という答弁書を閣議決定しています。
アジアの反日国の「河野談話によって、日本政府自らが強制連行を認めている」という主張は、ブラック・プロパガンダに過ぎません。
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＜文例 その4＞
（件名）
Anti-Japan organization ALPHA has now teamed up with the CMHR.
（本文）
To Whom It May Concern
Alpha is actually a well-funded anti-Japan organization that mixes fabrications with some historical facts. It has now teamed up with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) .
According to the article in the Toronto Star, the CMHR is organizing an educational campaign with Toronto Alpha.
Here is some evidence that Toronto Alpha is not trustworthy.
The photo exhibition about the so-called Nanking Massacre and comfort women which was held at the Toronto City Hall rotunda from Nov 27th to Dec 2nd, 2012 with photos from Toronto Alpha was a fraud.
These photos have been uploaded to a website (http://www.japantruth.org/), together with other photos and details showing that some of the photos are frauds.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：Toronto Star紙によるとCMHRはToronto Alphaと教育プログラムを準備しているそうです。しかしToronto Alphaという団体は捏造の歴史を流布する反日組織です。証拠はこちらです。（2012年、トロント市役所で行われた捏造南京＋慰安婦写真展のサイト）
カナダ・ウィニペグの人権博物館の捏造慰安婦展示を断固阻止しましょ う！
http://nadesiko-action.org/?page_id=6648
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2014年9月20日、マニトバ州ウィニペグ市にカナダ人権博物館（The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, CMHR）がにオープンします。
ALPHAという反日組織が絡んでいて、CMHRに「WWⅡの最中に、日本軍がアジアの女性を強制的に性奴隷にした」という、例の捏造慰安婦情報 が展示される予定なのです。
TORONTO ALPHAのサイトを調べてみると、理事会のトップは、カナダに帰化しているとは言えど、中国系、 韓国系の人物です。それ以外の人は、重要なポストには就いていません。
そのALPHAがまたまた巨額の資金をつぎ込んで、自称フィリピン慰安婦のローラ・フェデンシア・デービット（祖母ともども１０日間にわたり日本軍に陵辱されたと語っています）をCMHRに連れて来ました。
デービッド証言は本人によるただの口述で、何の証拠もありません。そ れなのに結局デービッドの口述もこの博物館に展示されることになってしまいました。
カナダ政府や自治体も出資しているこの人権博物館が、日本のブラック・プロパガンダを垂 れ流すのを断固阻止しましょう。
是非抗議のメール、手紙にご協力いただけますよう、よろしくお願い申し上ます。
日本の名誉を護る在カナダ邦人の会
代表 はすみ 都志子
以下【The Canadian Museum for Human Rights宛て抗議】と【マスメディア宛て抗議】のメアド、件名例、本文例を纏めてあります。
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【The Canadian Museum for Human Rights宛て抗議】
＜住所＞手紙郵送の場合
Canadian Museum for Human Rights
85 Israel Asper Way
Winnipeg, MB
R3C 0L5
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＜メール件名例＞
＊ Remove the comfort women exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
＊ We oppose the exhibit regarding comfort women at your museum.
＊ Shut down the comfort women exhibit.
＊ Do your homework before creating an exhibit on comfort women.
＊ Cancel your exhibit regarding comfort women.
＊ Stop your exhibit about comfort women.
＊ We oppose the contents of your comfort women exhibit.
＜本文例 その１＞※文例は８つあります
To Whom It May Concern
Remove the comfort women exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
The U.S. Military official document “Japanese Prisoner of War Interrogation Report No. 49.” explicitly and vividly shows how comfort women were treated. A comfort woman was not a sex slave, but was “nothing more than a prostitute or “professional camp follower”.
LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS
Comfort women lived in near-luxury in Burma in comparison to other places. This was especially true of their second year in Burma. They lived well because their food and material was not heavily rationed and they had plenty of money with which to purchase desired articles. They were able to buy cloth, shoes, cigarettes, and cosmetics to supplement the many gifts given to them by soldiers who had received “comfort bags” from home.
You can view a copy of the report here:
http://nadesiko-action.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Japanese-Prisoner-of-War-Interrogation.pdf
Your website says that ‘The purpose of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is to explore the subject of human rights, with special but not exclusive reference to Canada, in order to enhance the public’s understanding of human rights, to promote respect for others and to encourage reflection and dialogue (Museums Act).’
Why do you not promote respect against Japan?
If you really encourage reflections and dialogue, please consider my opinion.
At least I recommend that you contact the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and get some third party evidence on comfort women. The contact email is archives2reference@nara.gov and the document is stored under the name “ARC Identifier 2144907 / MLR Number NM84 79: Query re Japanese Prisoner of War Interrogation Report #49”.
It states that “A ‘comfort girl’ is nothing more than a prostitute or ‘professional camp follower.
Please note that it may take up to 2 months for the report to arrive by post. It might arrive faster if you request that the report be scanned and emailed to you. It is suggested that you check with NARA to confirm that they have received your request.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：貴館における慰安婦に関する展示を取り去ってください。
米軍慰安婦４９レポートには慰安婦が性奴隷ではなかったことが明確に記されています。（慰安婦レポートの取り寄せ方法）
貴館のサイトには「当館の目的は、人権への理解を高め、他者への尊敬や、省察、対話を促すために人権というテーマを探求することです」と記されているのに、何故日本の人権への配慮、尊敬がないのですか？
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＜本文例 その２＞
To Whom It May Concern
We oppose the exhibit regarding comfort women at your museum.
A Korean comfort woman named Moon Ok-ju, a former prostitute who worked in Burma, visited the Shimonoseki Post Office in Japan to withdraw her savings, and found out her original bank ledger was still there and confirmed. (Note: In Japan, the Japanese Post Office has several banking functions.)
She worked in Burma during a period of two years and three months between June 1943 and September 1945 as a comfort woman, and accumulated a total savings of 26,145 yen in deposits at the military post office. In the 1940s, 5000 yen would have been enough to purchase a house in Tokyo.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：貴館における慰安婦情報の展示に反対します。Moon Ok-juという韓国人慰安婦は下関の郵便局に26,145円（東京に家を五軒買える）を預金していました。彼女の預金通帳はまだ保存、確認されています。
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＜本文例 その3＞
To Whom It May Concern
Shut down the comfort women exhibit.
During the annexation of Korea by Japan, all the mayors of the villages in Korea were Korean. Most of the police officers were Korean. Some Koreans presently insist that 200,000 women were violently abducted by the Japanese military. If so, such a large scale abduction would have been witnessed by neighbours and reported to the police. The Japanese government conducted investigation in response to the testimonial of Korean women but no evidence of abductions was found.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：慰安婦展示を閉鎖してください。日本の韓国併合当時、韓国内の全ての村長は韓国人でした。ほとんどの警察官も韓国人でした。韓国側は二十万人の韓国女性が慰安婦として強制連行されたと主張していますが、そんなことはありえません。
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＜本文例 その4＞
To Whom It May Concern
We oppose your exhibit about comfort women.
The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea was concluded on June 22, 1965. Prior to establishing basic diplomatic relations between Japan and South Korea, a series of bilateral talks (a total of seven talks) were held from October 1951 to June 1965.
Over that period of 14 years, the “comfort women issue” was never brought on the negotiation table. During the talks the Japanese government proposed direct compensation specifically to individuals, but it was the South Korean government that insisted that it would handle individual compensation on behalf of the recipients.
Japan agreed and the Korean government received the whole amount on behalf of citizens. Where did the money go? The money was used up by the Korean government for infrastructure improvement and economic development (such as the Soyanggang Dam, POSCO, the Gyeongbu Expressway).
In 2005, the Korean government disclosed the classified documents, which had been kept confidential for 40 years and the Koreans learned for the first time about the proposal of the Japanese government.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：貴館の慰安婦展示に反対します。1965年に締結された日韓基本条約において、韓国の日本に対する一切の請求権は解決済みで二度と蒸し返されないことが決められています。会談中に、日本政府は、慰安婦個人への直接の補償を提案しましたが、韓国側は政府が受取人を代表して個人補償を扱うと主張しましたので、日本は同意し、結局韓国政府は市民を代表して補償金全額を受け取りました。
しかしそのお金は、韓国の政府によってインフラストラクチャーの改良および経済発展などに使用され、慰安婦個人の手には届きませんでした。
会談中に、日本政府は、慰安婦個人への直接の補償を提案しましたが、韓国側は政府が受取人を代表して個人補償を扱うと主張しましたので、日本は同意し、結局韓国政府は市民を代表して補償金全額を受け取りました。
しかしそのお金は、韓国の政府によってインフラストラクチャーの改良および経済発展などに使用され、慰安婦個人の手には届きませんでした。
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＜本文例 その5＞
To Whom It May Concern
Do your homework before creating an exhibit on comfort women.
The term “comfort women” refers simply to prostitutes in wartime. But some Koreans have long been promoting a “discredit Japan campaign” which promotes a false version of history in which Japan abducted hundreds of thousands of Korean women and coerced them into sexual services for Japanese soldiers outside of Japan during World War II. This is, for practical and logical reasons, a fiction.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：展示について決める前に、良く調べてください。「慰安婦」という言葉は単に戦時中の売春婦のことを指します。しかし韓国のディスカウント・ジャパン計画によって「WW IIの最中に日本軍によって強制的に性奴隷にされた多くの韓国女性という風に捏造されています。これは実際的にも論理的フィクションです。
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＜本文例 その6＞
To Whom It May Concern
Cancel your exhibit regarding comfort women.
It is true that Yohei Kono, the then Chief Cabinet Secretary of the Japanese government, issued in 1993 a statement that during World War II the Japanese military was, directly or indirectly, involved in the establishment and management of brothels and the staffing of these brothels with prostitutes (comfort women) and that in some cases the comfort women were recruited against their own will, through coaxing, coercion, and other means.
However, it must be recognized that at that time in japan and elsewhere in Asia brothels were legal and common. In Japan, each local government (for instance, the Public Health and Hygiene Bureau in Tokyo Prefecture) was responsible for the oversight of brothels in its area. The local police were responsible for apprehending deceitful recruiters and kept watch to ensure that prostitutes were not mistreated. In war zones it was the military authorities who fulfilled these functions, and also exercised their obligation to keep the comfort women safe. Japanese military administrators were simply doing their duty in their oversight of brothels.
In any case, as to the issue of coercion, in June this year the present Japanese government reviewed the Kono statement and its background and some important facts became clear.
First, after the 1992-3 investigation of Japanese ministry and agency records and US archive records, it was concluded that it not possible to confirm that comfort women were forcefully recruited. Second, it was discovered that there was also no investigation performed on the claims of the women who came forward and claimed to be comfort women before the statement was issued.
Despite that lack of evidence, the Kono statement contained an admission that there was coercion. The reason for that was that the contents of the Kono statement were drafted through a process of negotiation with the South Korea government, and the Japanese side was lead to believe that the issuance of a statement which admitted some coercion and the establishment and administration of a compensation fund would finally settle the issue. The admission of coercion was based on the uninvestigated claims of the women who came forward and not on any written record.
The Japanese Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary at the time, Mr.Nobuo Ishihara, told Rui Abiru, a reporter of the Sankei Newspaper, that the South Korean side repeatedly told them that if Japan acknowledged that the Japanese army forced the Korean women to become comfort women, they would accept this issue as resolved, so the Japanese side made such admission on that understanding.
However in fact, the South Korean side has used the Kono statement as the basis for demands for further apologies and compensation so the compromise reached did more harm than good.
The report of this review can be found here: http://www.mofa.go.jp/files/000042171.pdf
This is in accord with the determination made by the cabinet of the first Abe government in 2007 that there was no statement of any coercion by the military in ministry or agency records.
Anti-Japan movements in various Asian countries argue that through the Kono statement, the Japanese government has itself admitted that they forced women to become comfort women. That is nothing but propaganda.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：貴館における慰安婦情報展示を取りやめてください。今年の六月、日本政府は「日本軍による慰安婦の強制連行があった」と謝罪した河野談話を検証し、「日本軍による慰安婦の強制連行を示す証拠は何も見
つからなかったことや、河野談話作成の基となった慰安婦の聞き取り調査の検証もされていなかったこと、河野談話は韓国側との合作であったこと」を明らかにしました
それ以前の2007年にも、第一次安倍内閣において「日本軍による慰安婦の強制連行を裏付ける資料は見つからなかった」という答弁書を閣議決定しています。
アジアの反日国の「河野談話によって、日本政府自らが強制連行を認めている」という主張は、ブラック・プロパガンダに過ぎません。
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＜本文例 その7＞
To Whom It May Concern
We oppose the contents of your comfort women exhibit.
Why are you including in the exhibit the story of Lola Fidencia David? First it is based only on her verbal statements? And how does her story, even if true, provide any support to the claim that the comfort women system was staffed by sex slaves and not by prostitutes?
The people who will see such an exhibit will be misled about the truth.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：慰安婦の展示に反対します。何故自称フィリピン慰安婦のLola Fidencia Davidの展示を許すのですか？それは本人による口述のほか、何の証拠もありません。展示を見る人たちにそれが史実だと誤解させてしまいます。
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＜本文例 その8＞
To Whom It May Concern
Stop your exhibit about comfort women.
According to this article in the Toronto Star, you are organizing an ‘educational campaign’ with Toronto Alpha. http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/10/21/filipino_comfort_woman_still_fighting_for_apology.html
Toronto Alpha is actually a well-funded anti-Japan organization that mixes fabrications with some historical facts. .
Here is some evidence that Toronto Alpha is not trustworthy. The photo exhibition about the so-called Nanking Massacre and comfort women which was held at the Toronto City Hall rotunda from Nov 27th to Dec 2nd, 2012 with photos provided from Toronto Alpha was a fraud. Please look at the photos on this website ( http://www.japantruth.org/ ) and see for yourselves.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：慰安婦情報の展示をやめてください。Toronto Star紙によると貴館はToronto Alphaと教育プログラムを準備しているそうですが、Toronto Alphaが捏造の歴史を流布する反日組織であることをご存知ですか。証拠はこちらです。（2012年、トロント市役所で行われた捏造南京＋慰安婦写真展のサイト）ご覧になってください。
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【マスメディア宛て抗議】
＜マスコミメアド＞
Shane.Minkin@freepress.mb.ca
david.larkins@sunmedia.ca
gosia.sawicka@cbc.ca
dchoquette@globeandmail.com
fornat@thestar.ca
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※文例は４つあります。
＜文例 その１＞
（件名）Canadian Museum for Human Rights infringes Japanese human rights.
（本文）
To whom it may concern
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) is opening this September and they are going to exhibit some propaganda about Japan.
The CMHR says that they “will be exploring how before and during the Second World War, the imperial Japanese military established a system of sexual slavery that forced women in occupied territories to provide sexual service to soldiers. The term ‘Comfort Women’ or ‘Comfort System’ was used as a euphemism to distort the reality that this was a system of mass sexual abuse under the purview of the Imperial Army.”
But that is not true.
There are many primary sources that show they are wrong and one of them is a report written in 1944 (ten months before the end of World War II) by the U.S. Army.
It summarizes the U.S. Army’s interrogation of some comfort women captured in Burma. They were “captured” and not “freed,” because they were with the Japanese Imperial Army in Burma fleeing from the advancing U.S. military.
It states that “A ‘comfort girl’ is nothing more than a prostitute or ‘professional camp follower’, and they are well paid. The women had the right to refuse any customer.”
The contact email for the U.S. Army report is archives2reference@nara.gov and the document is stored under the name “ARC Identifier 2144907 / MLR Number NM84 79: Query re Japanese Prisoner of War Interrogation Report #49”.
Please note that it may take up to 2 months for the report to arrive by post. It might arrive faster if you request that the report be scanned and emailed to you. It is suggested that you check with NARA to confirm that they have received your request.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：今年九月開館予定の人権博物館は、日本が第二次世界大戦中にアジアの女性を強制連行し性奴隷にしたという情報を展示する予定ですが、それは史実ではありません。米国公文書館に保存されている米軍による慰安婦レポートによれば、彼女たちは高給取りの売春婦に過ぎません。（慰安婦レポートの取り寄せ方法）
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＜文例 その２＞
（件名）The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) is exhibiting a story without any objective evidence.
（本文）
To Whom It May Concern
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) has informed us that they will be holding exhibits about Ms. Lola Fidencia David who says she was force to be a comfort woman for the Japanese army during the World War Ⅱ.
The story of Lola Fidencia David based only on her verbal statements.
The people who will see such an exhibit will be misled about the truth.
I protest that the CMHR is going to use Canadian tax money for that.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：CMHRは自称フィリピン慰安婦・Lola Fidencia Davidの展示を許する予定ですが、その内容は本人による口述に過ぎず、何の証拠もありません。展示を見る人たちにそれが史実だと誤解させてしまいます。
CMHRがそのようなことにカナダ人の税金を使うことに抗議します。
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＜文例 その3＞
（件名）
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) is going to exhibit fabricated history with Canadian tax money.
（本文）
To Whom It May Concern
The CMHR is planning to exhibit propaganda that the imperial Japanese military established a system of sexual slavery that forced women in occupied territories to provide sexual service to soldiers. The museum claims that the terms ‘Comfort Women’ or ‘Comfort System’ were used as euphemisms to distort the reality that this was a system of mass sexual abuse under the purview of the Imperial Army.’ None of that is true.
It is true that Yohei Kono, the then Chief Cabinet Secretary of the Japanese government, issued in 1993 a statement that during World War II the Japanese military was, directly or indirectly, involved in the establishment and management of brothels and the staffing of these brothels with prostitutes (comfort women) and that in some cases the comfort women were recruited against their own will, through coaxing, coercion, and other means.
As to the issue of coercion, in June of this year the present Japanese government reviewed the Kono statement and its background and some important facts became clear.
First, after the 1992-3 investigation of Japanese ministry and agency records and US archive records, it was concluded that it not possible to confirm that comfort women were forcefully recruited. Second, it was discovered that there was also no investigation performed on the claims of the women who came forward and claimed to be comfort women before the statement was issued.
This is in accord with the determination made by the cabinet of the first Abe government in 2007 that there was no statement of any coercion by the military in ministry or agency records.
Anti-Japan movements in various Asian countries argue that through the Kono statement, the Japanese government has itself admitted that they forced women to become comfort women. That is nothing but propaganda.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：CMHRは「日本軍はＷＷⅡ中にアジアの女性を慰安婦として強制連行した」という情報を展示予定ですが、それはプロパガンダに過ぎません。今年の六月、日本政府は河野談話を検証し、「日本軍による慰安婦の強制連行を示す証拠は何も見つからなかったことや、河野談話作成の基となった慰安婦の聞き取り調査の検証もされていなかったこと、河野談話は韓国側との合作であったこと」を明らかにしました
それ以前の2007年にも、第一次安倍内閣において「日本軍による慰安婦の強制連行を裏付ける資料は見つからなかった」という答弁書を閣議決定しています。
アジアの反日国の「河野談話によって、日本政府自らが強制連行を認めている」という主張は、ブラック・プロパガンダに過ぎません。
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＜文例 その4＞
（件名）
Anti-Japan organization ALPHA has now teamed up with the CMHR.
（本文）
To Whom It May Concern
Alpha is actually a well-funded anti-Japan organization that mixes fabrications with some historical facts. It has now teamed up with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) .
According to the article in the Toronto Star, the CMHR is organizing an educational campaign with Toronto Alpha.
Here is some evidence that Toronto Alpha is not trustworthy.
The photo exhibition about the so-called Nanking Massacre and comfort women which was held at the Toronto City Hall rotunda from Nov 27th to Dec 2nd, 2012 with photos from Toronto Alpha was a fraud.
These photos have been uploaded to a website (http://www.japantruth.org/), together with other photos and details showing that some of the photos are frauds.
Sincerely,
差出人名 （市、県、Japan）
日本語要約：Toronto Star紙によるとCMHRはToronto Alphaと教育プログラムを準備しているそうです。しかしToronto Alphaという団体は捏造の歴史を流布する反日組織です。証拠はこちらです。（2012年、トロント市役所で行われた捏造南京＋慰安婦写真展のサイト）