Recently, there was a Japanese high school student who came to Japan to apologize to the comfort women grandmother. The name of the Japanese student was Okamoto Hawa. She made a sincere commitment to spreading the comfort women 's truth and showed her consciousness about the current comfort women in Japan. In Japan, she says that she is upset because she has a lot of abuses that she can not put in her mouth about the issue of comfort women of the Japanese military and the girl statue on the internet. "I want to listen a lot of high school students and college students like me and go to Japan and tell their friends He said. And she confronted the historical truth of shame, unlike the Japanese government, who said that the problem of "comfort women" was solved. Currently, the participants of the rally related to the comfort women are calling for the abolition of the comfort women 's agreement in 2015 and the return of 1 billion yen. We know that the case of comfort women in our country should be solved and we should urge Japanese apology. But I do not know the background of the historical event called comfort women. Let's look at what a historical event is called comfort women and what the definition of comfort women is.
1. Definition of comfort women
The comfort of the word 'comfort women' means comfort an object to do so. This is not a word we commonly use. Based on this, the definition of comfort women means those who condole and ease their minds. But this is a well-defined definition. According to the e-Historian of the victims of the comfort women of the Japanese military, the definition of comfort women is "comfort women", which was established in order to carry out the war efficiently until the defeat in the Pacific war after the Japanese caused the Manchuria Incident (1931.9.18). It refers to a woman who was forced to mobilize the Japanese military for slavery. In the documents and testimonies, the names were divided into the following categories: welfare service, special service, chukbuk department, anticipation, wartime service, and rescue service. The comfort women were also called as army recreation areas, This is one of the abuses of human rights and detainment of forced labor by the Japanese during the Japanese colonial rule.
2. Formation and mobilization of Japanese military "brothels"
After Japan made Manchurian incidents, they expanded the aggression front, and they set up a "brothel" in various terms. In January 1932, there was a record of the establishment of the initial form of Japanese soldiers 'brothels in Shanghai, China. In 1937, after the Sino-Japanese War, Japanese soldiers' brothels increased sharply. After the Sino-Japanese War, the military led the entire process of establishing and managing brothels, recruiting comfort women, and transporting them. Not only the Japanese government, but also the Chosun government and the governor general of Taiwan were actively cooperating. Currently, the exact total number is unknown. This is because systematic data showing the number of comfort women mobilized have not been found. As scholars speculate, there are various opinions ranging from at least 30,000 to a maximum of 400,000. The comfort women were mobilized not only in Korea but also in other countries. As the war was prolonged and the frontline expanded, Dutch women from China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar and Indonesia were forced to be comfort women of the Japanese army. A Japanese researcher who has long studied the issue of comfort women in the Japanese military has estimated that the number of comfort women is between 80,000 and 200,000, with more than half of them being Korean.
3. Mobilization and Transportation
Comfort women were mobilized by job fraud, intimidation and violence, trafficking and kidnapping, and most were mobilized as comfort women by saying they could make a lot of money. At the time, the newspaper also said that it recruited "comfort women" but did not notice the contents of the work. Therefore, there were few cases where direct recruitment advertisements were delivered considering newspaper subscription status and female literacy rate. The Japanese military has selected a contractor to manage the brothel, and the Japanese military and the police have cooperated in the mobilization process. The employers used the recruiters, or they approached the women by themselves, and as mentioned above, they were able to make money, that is, they attracted women by job as a bait, mobilized by cooperation and violence, and even kidnapped. The request of the Japanese military for the comfort women and the comfort women to carry out the war allowed this kind of physical violence, and before the outbreak of the Pacific War, they received the "traffic test certificate" and moved to overseas brothels. Also, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, they moved to overseas brothels through 'military certificates'.
As such, the atrocities of Japan were brought to a reality and many comfort women grandmother suffered damage. As mentioned earlier, Japan still manipulates history by saying that extreme right wingers have been resolved in the comfort women case. But the comfort women case is not completely resolved. Until now, the comfort women are opening demand rallies to receive a word of apology from Japan. I think we should know the exact definition and background of the comfort women case as it happened in Korea. Finally, there is a movie made in Korea related to comfort women. Let's take a look at the recent movie "I Can Speak" and the movie "Return Home, Ending Story" which was released in 2017.