https://rio2016.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/kokusai/1448800276/722 Comfort Women, Military Prostitution and Human Trafficking The need for a perspective shift in Japan and Korea Gavan Gray, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan https://megalodon.jp/2013-0228-0909-02/www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol12/iss3/gray.html The other ‘smoking gun’ of early activism were documents revealed by Yoshimi Yoshiaki in 1992, which showed government participation in the comfort system. The documents referred to the regulation of recruiters, establishment of facilities and sanitary procedures to reduce disease.15 Dower claimed they “clarified the historical record in ways that people like Prime Minister Abe… refuse to acknowledge.”16 Yet, the documents were not a revelation of secret knowledge but had instead been publicly available for decades and reflected information openly discussed in numerous post-war books and memoirs.17 Their relevance was in the fact that they had disproved the existing government stance that the women were independently recruited and the Army was not directly involved.
Photograph of Japanese Prisoners Taken by Troops of the Chinese 8th Army https://catalog.archives.gov/id/148727292 Original Caption: "Four Japanese girls taken prisoner by troops of Chinese 8th Army at village on Sung Shan Mill on the Burma road when Japanese soldiers were killed or driven from village. Chinese soldiers guarding girls.