7. Comfort Women and the Coomaraswamy Report(1) Relevant Recommendations of the Committee, and statements of the Government
Report-Paragraph 18 of the concluding observations (CERD/C/JPN/CO/7-9)-

Comments by the Government of Japan regarding the Concluding Observations(CERD/C/JPN/CO/7-9/Add.2)(2) Main Points: The Committee’s Understanding of the Comfort Women is IncorrectConsidering the pointless, irrelevant observations and recommendations of thecommittee, much to our great regret we must tell you that your understanding of the
Comfort Women is terribly incorrect.
Primary source evidences such as US Army Reports clearly indicates that “a comfort
girl is nothing more than a prostitute or professional or camp followers attached to theJapanese Army for the benefit of soldiers”; they worked on contract to pay off the family
debt, which was advance loan payment provided by a procurer, and their average income
was 1,500 yen per month, when a skilled factory worker could earn only 30 yen permonth; and allowed a prerogative of refusing a customer such as drunken ones. (See thewords underlined in red in Appendix 1).

Another US Army Report states that “allKorean prostitutes that PoW (Prisoner of War) have seen in the Pacific were volunteersor had been sold by their parents into prostitution” (See the words underlined in red inAppendix 2)
Comfort Women were highly-paid prostitutes, working on a voluntary contract basis
at the rear of battlefields. They were basically no different from the Japanese prostitutes
worked for RAA (Recreation and Amusement Association) of the U.S. Army during the
Occupation Years following the WWII and therefore, the government of Japan is not
required to do anything further than those already made so far.

(3) Background
Presumably, the committee’s incorrect understanding of the comfort women is basedon the 1996 Coomaraswamy Report (*1) (hereinafter the “Report” where appropriate).
The Report does not reflect the true picture of the Comfort Women. The Report is written
based on the two books highly motivated to spread biased views of the Comfort Women- 38 -

in an attempt to smear or disparage the nation and people of Japan.
One such book is “The Comfort Women” written by G. Hicks. The author quoted
heavily from the book titled “The Emperor’s Forces and Korean Comfort Women” by Kim
Il Myon, which is filled with baseless rumors, unfounded hearsays, wildly farcical andridiculous hoaxes and fabrications, some of which are part of porn novels, movie scenes,
and cartoon stories. This book is worthless as a historic material.
Moreover, “Select annotated bibliography” of “The Comfort Women” by G.Hicks writes,
Many sources are of limited circulation and accessibility, being the nature of pamphlets
or special interest publications obtained through direct contact with activists.” Thismeans the main sources of the information of the author was activists such as Yun Chunok (Chair of Chong Dae Hyup: Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual
Slavery by Japan) and USUKI Keiko (President of the Association for Clarifying Japan’s
Postwar Responsibility).
Generally, source materials written by activists require serious examination of thevalidity since such literature materials are often written under strong influence of theactivists. Lack of such serious examination by the author is obvious in this book.
However, by blindly believing that the content of the book is true, Ms. Radhika
Coomaraswamy made a serious mistake of containing distorted views of the comfort
women in the Report, even a part of novel in Paragraph 21.
There were comfort women and comfort stations. However, there was no forcible
recruitment by the Japanese Army and/or Officials as G. Hicks claims in his book. The
results of 1993 investigation by the Japanese Government and also 2007 IWG Report(*2) by the U.S. Government corroborate and back up the views. Moreover, Korean
Government and/or civic groups have not presented hard evidences to the contrary up to
this time.
The “Women’s Volunteer Service Corps” were basically the same as “Rosie the Riveter”
and nothing else. No girls or women were mobilized as “Women’s Volunteer Service Corps”
and then deceived into serving as military sexual slaves as Paragraphs 15, 29, or 30
claims in the Report.
Mr. Lee Yong-hoon, professor emeritus at Seoul University, wrote in his book “大韓民国の物語（The Story of the Republic of Korea）”published in 2009 that “Out of 175
former comfort women who came forward so far, I guess there is no one who testified
that she had been first mobilized as “Women’s Volunteer Service Corps” and then forced
to become a comfort woman. So many researchers spent a long time and made efforts toclarify this point to their no avail. Little wonder that these two historical events are
entirely different from the very start. (p.134)”- 39 -

The same applies even today. No one claimed she was first mobilized as a member of
the “Women’s Volunteer Service Corps” and then forced to become a comfort woman. If
you still claim there is such a case, you should identify her name with kanji-letters.
The other book is “My War Crimes” by Yoshida Seiji, the only the offender’s side ofstory of “large-scale coercion and violent abduction of women in what amounts to slaveraids in countries under Japanese control.” (Paragraph 27)
The Report describes in Paragraph 29 that “Moreover, the wartime experiences of one
raider, Yoshida Seiji, are recorded in his book, in which he confesses to having been partof slave raids in which, among other Koreans, as many as 1,000 women were obtainedfor “comfort women” duties under the National Labor Service Association as part of the
National General Mobilization Law.”
Yoshida’s “My War Crimes” has already been proven to be a fabrication conjured by agreedy liar who just craved fame and fortune. Yoshida Seiji declared this book was afabrication in May, 1996, and the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, which made a “selftormenting war-guilt campaign” based on the Yoshida’s book admitted that his raids in
the Cheju Island had never happened, made a formal apology to the public, and retracted
16 news articles relating to the author in September, 2014. Yoshida’s son testified that
his father had never been to the Cheju Island, wrote the book by referring to the mapsof the island, and publicly expressed his wish to pull out and remove all comfort women
statues built around the world by using cranes in Aril, 2016. As Paragraphs 29 and 30 of
the Report were written based on the Yoshida’s book, their description must be
substantially revised.

(4) Conclusions and Recommendations
1996 Coomaraswamy Report presents distorted wrong views of the Comfort Women,
and UN/CERD committee is spreading unsubstantiated stories of former comfort women.
The resultant by-product is racial hostility between Japan and South Korea, whichappears non-repairable for the next decades. These two nations are otherwise two
democracies that should enjoy mutual friendship and peace as good neighbors. In effect,
you are violating the human rights of the present-day Japanese by false accusations ofsexual slavery, quite like witch trials in the Medieval Age. Considering the above, westrongly urge that the UN/CERD committee take immediate action to:(a) Notice that the committee has a wrong idea on the comfort women based on the1996 Coomaraswamy Report and, as the result, presented recommendations- 40 -

that are categorically unacceptable for the nation and people of Japan;(b) Stop the insults and disparagement that damage the reputation of the nationand people of Japan by making such false accusations. Particularly,
disrespectful remarks against our ancestors are intolerable.
(c) Substantially revise or invalidate the whole of the 1996 Coomaraswamy Report;(d) Devote your attention and effort to the current problems now going on in theworld such as human trafficking of North Korean female refugees being
captured and sold for coerced marriage with Chinese farmers who are short ofbrides, rather than intervening into history matters still in dispute, which mustbe left to the discussion of historians.

Reported by “Japanese Women for Justice and Peace”

Note:(*1) 1996 Coomaraswamy Report
E/CN.4/1996/53/Add.1
Addendum
Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes andconsequences, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, in accordance with Commission on Human
Rights resolution 1994/45
Report on the mission to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Republic ofKorea and Japan on the issue of military sexual slavery in wartime
http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=E/CN.4/1996/53/Add.1(*2) 2007 IWG Report
Nazi War Crimes & Japanese Imperial Government Records
Interagency Working Group
Final Report to the United States Congress, April 2007
http://www.archives.gov/iwg/reports/final-report-2007.pdf
This is a massive research mandated by two acts of the U.S. government, which was
carried out over nearly seven years reviewing through classified U.S. government
documents expending $30 million since 1999. The study found no evidence of crimes inthe the comfort women system. The final report was submitted to U.S. Congress in 2007.
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Appendix
1.

UNITED STATES OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION Psychological WarfareTeam Attached to U.S. Army Forces India-Burma Theater Japanese Prisoner of War
Interrogation Report No. 49
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Composite Report on Three Korean Navy Civilians, List. 76, Dated 28 Mar 45, Re“Special Questions on Koreans.

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the conditions
under which thoy lived
and wor-xcd ,thoir
rol~tiono
with nnd reaction
to the Japanesesoldior,o.nd theirunderBtundin~of th(J miliury situation.
;.. "comfort',i:rlll is nothinl,; morethnn
n prostitutoor"pr-of'eas i.one.L camp follower"
attachodto the Japanese
arr:ry for t."lebenofitof tho soldiers.
The word "car.lfort·'.irl" is pecu Laaz= z
JnpanesfJ.
Other report£;show tho "oCl!lfort girl.s"
havewhereverit lm.S ne ce a sar-y for t.."t. Jo.pe.n€:so J.rr:::;r to fi:;h";.
::::roporthowevor dea Le on Iy with the Kcre an II cCLti'ort girls·
reoTU1teby the Jo.panostl and atto.cs;.ed to thoir
Anny in ;)unna.
Tho J~{\i1(l8eare reported
to have shippedsome 703 of thOBO C;irls to Jun.:8. in 1942.
RECRUITIN~
larlyin }Jny of 1942 Japanesea~nts
arrivedin Koroa forthe purposeof enlistinG
Korean Girlsfor "oc:mfort sorvice"in newlyoonque red Jarc.nesb
torritories
in Southenst
Ji.siA.
The no.turo of t:,is"servioew~s not speoified
but it weS o.Bsumed to ~e vror~ cOl1llGctedwith visitinG
the wounded in hospitals,
rollinGbo.nda~es,
nnd
generf:.11y makL'1.G the soldifJrs
happy ,The induoement used by these&.bonts 'WaS plentyof money, nn O['portunity
to pr'.y off the ftJ\ilydebts,
oaay vlork, end the prospectof f. new lilt.
in a now land Sin;)l.poro.
On the bnsisof t.he sc f ..•Lse rorrosorc.t.).tions
1::9.110" ;;irh
enlistodfor ovor-eeas duby and wtlr(; rewar-ded with an ~.dvn"c() of a
fcvl hundrod y en ,The m(\jorit~/of t.ho Cirlo wor-e i,")'lorunt and uncdu c x t ed ,rlthou.·.h a [O\"I had toun connocted ,'/ith "oldo::;t profo:JGior.
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maetor" at Ro.n~~oonar-ound Au:;ust 20th, la~2.
Tho~r carne iu Groups of from ei~ht totwenty-tyro.
From,hero th8jr wer(; distributod
to Vluioul pf'.rts or
BunJUl.,usually to fair sized towns nca r Japanose Anny o~s.
EVEmtually four of thos6 units r-eached the Myitk;)rina vioi.!lity.
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and selfish.
She 18 not pretty oi thor 'r:ry Jo.panOISEl
or Cp.uonebn
sto.ndards.
She ill inolined to bo egotistioe.l
end likes to talkabout hersaH'.
H'st' attitudein front of strci.ng<lrll iei quiet anddanure, but she -:Ialawa th(l wiles of n wanan." She olaims todislike her ·prof'lsseiOO· and would rathor not tnlk either nbout itor her family.
B(.oau8e of tho kind treata.lent she reoui ved n.1I aprisoner fran ,Aane:rioo.n
Boldi.rs at l4yitk;y1nA end Ledo, she f'eel.
~-tb.nt they aJ:'~)t\Q.rc~
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two story house (usually •. sohool building) with a leparato roem
fo-r e aoh girl.
There each e;1rl lived, slept, and transactedbUline8l.
Pl YyUkyina their food Wd prepared by and puroh&.sod
fr<:lll the 'house master- .." they reoeived no regular ro.tion fromthtl Japanese A~ ~ They Ihed in noar-luxury in B~
1no~ar1aOll
to OthEI:'plAoe..
This wa.. elpeo1&lly true or their.
seoond year in BUlma. They lived well be cause their tood andme..teruLl .•••.
s not heavily rationed and they had plenty of monfr,lwith 'Which to pur<lhue desired artioles.
They were able tobuy oloth, shoes, ciGarette8,
a.nd cosmotion to tupplemont tho
ma~ GU'ti gi'tento
them by .oldier.
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in aporta event_ .•1th both offioers and men. end a'ttended
picniol,
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were striotly
enforoed.
The J..rm:y round it ne ceuary in con:;oatod~.'_'·i,r~-.a~aIS _t9._~8to.l; a system _of. prioes, prioriti(;s,and sohedulos•.
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j,u Oentral BUnlla. Offioer. were c.llowod~ ttay owrn1gll1t t,r ~tJ
1m. In ~itlcy1na 001. l1aru:re~_! •• luhed the pri4)Nito
almo.lt .one-half ot tho anrage pr i cc ,: 8CHII>U1&8 I,;t!.. '. '•-!'he loWer'
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about O'feJ'.taying lea V6.
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set o.eide oertain day I' tor oertain-\U1its. Usua.1ly -l;wo men tran the unit tor the do.y were Ita t i.oaod.t the bouse to identity loldlers.
! roTinG yP was aho on h end
to keep order.
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thus ofl"-!sinc: ill fe(,lin~onon;
maAYof the.8oldiors.
Soldiers. 'Would oome to the house, pay the price an d ~ot
t1akote ofoardboar d about 'two inchos square with the p rLco 01:
th& lef't 8 ide and t.he name of the house on tho ot.hor s Ldo, Each.oldler's
identityor rank WD.1S then establishedafter
whioh he-took his turn in line".
The girls woro allowod the preror;ativo
of' Nfusin~a ooetaner.
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Tll10 moanb that
1n an aver-a ge month e.. Girl would :;ro8s abou t firtoon hundr-ed y en ,She turned over seven hundred and fii'tv to the IImt'.8ter1'. U...•
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In the lattor part of -1943 tho -tlrmy issued ordurs t112t
Girls who had paid thoir dobt could return :1(l;":l~. SOLlU of
the l~irls Wore thus allowed to ro curn to Koroa..
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t homse Lvoa and customors
in tho matterof l\,T ,UL10.
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rr, uLer .Japan e co ~rnl~' doctor visitedthe hou s oe onoo a HO :]: andany ~:irl found disoased
was givon troatment,s e c Iud od , an d evontu".ll~r scn i, to a hospital.
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on Iy tv/o names of any cons equeno» came out of interro::;atio:ls.
They wore those of Col. Maruyama, cor.mandor of ti1e r,arrison
atr~rit~(;;ri.'1e., and Maj.Gen. Mizu!cami. who brouj1t
in re tru'or-comcrrt s , \Tllu two were eXslot opposites.
Thu former WIlS hard,selfishand I
r epu LeIve with no oonsideration
for his men] the lattera :;ood,l:ind man and a fine a oLdi.er , with tho Utr,lOst considerationforthoso who worked under him.
The Colonul Wfl.Sa cons tarrt hao Lbueof tho houses while tho General was novur known to have visited
tham~
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Col. ~aruyama supposedly
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The aVUr&Ge Japanesesoldioris enbarrassed
about boinC
seen in 8 "oanfo:rt house" accor-d m.; to one of tho :;irls
who s a i.d,"whun the .j-Lac o Is pa okod he is apt to bo ashamed if he ho s to
wait in line for his turn-.
However there were numerous
instanctJl5 of proposals
of mar r Lar;e and in oerta~,
oases rllarriaC;ee
actually
took p Iuc o •.111 thtl e;irhaGre(,d that the worst offioers
arid men
who CQlTlO to see them were those who were drunk end Lea vtn', jOr the
frontthe' follow1.ng day.
3ut all likewiso
agreud thatevon thoughvery drunk the Japanesesoldiernever discussed
mllita.ry
lMl.tters
or secretswith them.
ThouE"..hthe ~irls mif.;ht start
tho oonvo r s ation nboub sano military
matterthe offioer
or enlisted
man would
not talk,
but would in faot "soold us for disoussinG
suoh LU1-1adylib~ sub je cb s , Even Col. ~aruya:mn when drunk would never discuss
au oh rile.tte rs."
The ao l d i e r e would ofter. express
how much t.hey errj oyod
r-ece i.viu.; maGazines,
letters
and nowspup or s from hcm.. , The:;; alsoraerrt Loned the reoeipt
of "ccmfort
bn.';e" f:l.lled with canned :;oods.
rl1fll,o~,:l.nL.B.
soap, handkerchiefs,
toothbrush,mIn Latu re doll,liFstic):,
and woodon cloGs.
Tho lipstick
and ClOi;S worede,~i)\it01y
feminine
and tho ~;irle couldn't
understandw'n:J thop c op Le at hone were aend In.; su ch ar t i c l eu , They sp e cn Lst.cd t:le.tt>c s c.ide r could on Iy ha ve hnd t.hemso Ive a or the "n a t ivc ·.irlsll
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Military Intelligence Service Captured Personnel & Material Branch
Composite Report on Three Korean Navy Civilians,
List. 76, Dated 28 Mar 45, Re “ Special Questions on Koreans.”

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