An article on comfort women from the Asahi Shimbun newspaper was on display, as was a photo of former National Public Safety Commission Chairwoman Tomiko Okazaki, who participated in a demonstration organized by the Para-Tokyo Peace Council. A collection of letters from Communist Party-affiliated groups was also on display.
May 23, 2020
The following is from today's Sankei Sho.
Emphasis in the text is mine.
Korean comfort women support groups have been treated as a sanctuary, backed by the prestige of former comfort women, who have somehow come to be regarded as national heroes.
They have a significant influence on public opinion.
A senior official of the South Korean Foreign Ministry says they have "de facto veto power over Japan-South Korea diplomacy" (a senior official of the South Korean Foreign Ministry).
The representative is The Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance (formerly The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan), whose former president, Yoon Mee-Hyang, was elected by the ruling party in the April general election.
However, the situation took a turn for the worse when Lee Yong Soo, a former comfort woman with whom Yoon had worked for 30 years, accused him of sexual slavery.
I told Yoon, 'I don't like the term "sex slavery," it's so dirty. But she said, 'The U.S. will be afraid of me only if I express it this way.
Lee told the Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo and complained that donations to former comfort women were being misappropriated.
South Korean prosecutors raided the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance on March 20.
The House of Sharing, a private facility where former comfort women live together, was also subject to administrative action after allegations of misuse of donations were exposed by facility staff.
The support group, which had enjoyed a high social status, has turned around and is now being criticized for using former comfort women as a tool of business.
Japan is no exception.
A visit to the history museum attached to the House of Sharing a few years ago revealed a display of comfort women-related articles from the Asahi Shimbun newspaper and Okazaki, who participated in a demonstration organized by The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, was also a member. A photo of former National Public Safety Commission Chair Tomiko Okazaki, who participated in a demonstration organized by The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, was also on display.
There was also a collection of letters from Communist Party-affiliated groups.
Behind South Korea's anti-Japanese stance, there are always Japanese collaborators.
It was a Japanese lawyer who started calling comfort women "sex slaves.
Unfortunately, this is why it is said that the enemies of Japan are Japanese.
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