Tokyo mayor Shintaro Ishihara’s latest foray into promoting international goodwill is to assert that Japan’s wartime “comfort women” were all willing Korean prostitutes only interested in the money.
Ishihara’s remarks came at one of his infamous press conferences:
“Where is the proof that Japanese forced them to do this?
It was an era of poverty, these women grudgingly turned to the only trade they could make money in, prostitution.”
He also called a 1993 apology for their fate, made by the then chief cabinet secretary, “idiotic for accepting their claims like that.”
At the other end of the country, Osaka’s maverick mayor and committed tattoo-hater Tooru Hashimoto has also been expressing scepticism about Korea’s claims:
“There is no evidence they were subject to any coercion from the army.
Testimony from comfort women isn’t enough. The reliability of their claims can’t be taken for granted.”
He went on to accuse Korea’s king-hating president of illegally entering Japanese territory.
Aside from the sovereignty of Takeshima/Dokdo, the “comfort women” issue has become the other major bone of contention in relations between the two nations.
Whatever the historical truth of the matter, the assertions of the right of both sides have become increasingly extreme – many Japanese dismiss them as willing prostitutes and a scam by Korean nationalists to further inflame passions against Japan or to continue eternally accumulating war reparations.
Meanwhile the claims of the Korean side have also become increasingly exaggerated, with some academics insisting hundreds of thousands of Korean women alone were victimised, and guesses at their total number based on the presumed ratio of sex slaves to soldiers taken as fact in place of actual evidence.
Despite these estimates, the Korean government has only identified 234 women as former sex slaves (or military prostitutes, as some would have it).
It should come as no surprise that the Japanese Internet is greatly excited by such remarks:
“His excellency is as cool as ever!”
“Watch all those dirty Koreans get upset about this!”
“Both now and back then Korea exported vast numbers of prostitutes.”
“So it is definitely true that the army was hiring prostitutes, and it is OK that they were doing this as long they weren’t coerced?”
“I think he is basically right, but there must have been an awful lot of poor households selling off their daughters this way.”
“Probably a lot of these girls were sold into it by their families so it wasn’t always exactly voluntary.”
“There’s plenty of evidence for forced Korean labour in mines and so on, but the stuff about comfort women only started coming out decades after the war ended, so it’s pretty suspect.”
“These guys are full of it – if there is no evidence of it, there is also no evidence of the Shiga bullying, now is there?”
“Get out of here you dirty Korean!”
“Unlike the Shiga case, there are no third party witnesses to the comfort women issue.”
“I have trouble believing there weren’t quite a few girls who were forced into this. But that was the fault of the people who sold them to the army, not the army.”
“200,000 sex slaves… for something that big there should be mountains of evidence? Why isn’t there?”
“They have always had a huge prostitution industry and exported their women in vast numbers…”
“From Wikipedia: Prostitution in South Korea is illegal, but according to The Korea Women’s Development Institute,
the sex trade in Korea was estimated to amount to 14 trillion South Korean won ($13 billion) in 2007,
roughly 1.6 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product.”“Please become prime minister, Ishihara!”
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Can this senile old man retire already?
it cannot happen fast enough.
he should be killed instead
With the high average life span of most asian countries, I think you'll be seeing him a long, loonnngg time.....that is until someone snipes him or something >.>
Meh, they'll make some extreme loli rape hentai and he'll die to a heart attack while performing some "light" hand excersices... I apologise for the mental image, for those who get my point.
Gramps is asking for trouble.
Ain't he a card?
Let's hope he gets it alone without taking the entire country with him...
The country can go with him too. Their isolation has gotten to the point that even Syrians feel more inviting.
Then why the fuck do you keep coming here to work as "english teachers"? Haven't you done enough harm already? Accept the country as it is, or GTFO.
05:32 You should accept korea and china as it is, or GTFO the bitching phone.
Got it jap?
05:32 lol obvious troll pretending to be Japanese, you've got to learn Japanese cannot form comprehendable sentence structure.
nop .. He asked for some gb korea to suck his....
At the rate both sides are going at it...watch their representatives start tossing "your mom" insults.
US and china to japan: Spread your legs!
Japan: ok....don't hurt me
japan, why are you so pathetic?
Can't wait :D
I wish they could just fight each other! Dement judo fighter vs senile tae kwon fighter!
With as old as these guys are? A "your mom" might not be a joke, their moms might actually have been involved...
Ishithara is at it again. I guess this is why he is too scared to come to America. lol
Wow, It's like every time this old senile fuck opens his hypocritical fucking mouth, shit rolls right on out. Die already you fucking racist swine.
I'd rather let him bash Koreans or other issues than picking on the 2D industry.
umm....most Animation are made with Korea, dude/Gal. If Ishihara bash them, it won't do any good to the anime industry, it would make it worse...
citation needed.
Seriously, "most animation" is an exaggeration beyond belief.
The anime industry should just escape on an island from all these shenanigans and focus on just making quality anime for the world. Hell the manga industry should go too. >.>
No more outsourcing? Higher pay for the animators, more respect for the slaves or they'll walk? Less cheap labour more selective of their next project?
Yeah, it's the "quality" animation that's usually produced there... And to tell the truth, I really wouldn't miss those.
But seriously, how can the Japanese goverment keep this moron in power... He's gonna start a war soon! Kick him out already...
No more outsourcing? Lower framerates, less detail, fewer animators? Less cheap labor and more CG?
6/10
Almost believed your shit. Thanks for the lols.
@ 04:04
As long as Japan is paying them to do it.
Korea will grudgingly accept their yen.
So I wouldn't worry about it.
They sold their women to Japan after all.
@04:35
Basic economics. I do not think you know how it works.
So let's get this straight-- studios outsource to Korea because the $1000/month wage for Japanese animators is too high for animation to be sustainable... so without that source of cheap labor, suddenly animators will have a ton more money to spend on expensive and more-easily-burned-out Japanese animators?
Wow. And you got upvoted +0.4. SanCom readership speaks for itself, as always.
Spoiler alert: the answer is less anime will be made-- if the animators walk, that means NO ANIME. Anime is unprofitable enough as it is without expensive labor.
iShithara always talking shit.
And since it comes from a man of his position, said shit represents Japan.
with leaders like theses, no wonder japan is a laughing stock of the world.
My nuts ache, I need a Korean comfort woman. Can I rent one cheap?
Go to the korean comfort woman dealership, it's about 7.50 an hour plus the extra mileage
or just become a school teacher and have all the school girls sluts you want... oh wait you said korean, not japanese.
I am sure you might find a 87 year old Korean lady who is willing to give you her time.
Wow, It's like every time this old senile fuck opens his hypocritical fucking mouth, shit rolls right on out. Die already you fucking racist swine.
Bot much? Jesus
I find it hilarious that he said there is no evidence yet police in Japan like to arrest guys the moment a woman cries pervert.
why not ? i agree with him since i hate koreans too
Keep Diggin Ishihara eventually someone's gonna come by and push you in
Let's start a Kickstarter for hiring an assassin to kill this dumbass.
I wonder what his views are on The Holocaust.
probably "Dirty forgeiners tortured killed many other dirty forgeiners in dirty forgein ideology"
wait...
He probably would deny that it happened
(spoiler: it did happen)
At the very least, it can be assured that he denies the Nanking Massacre.
Now, I see how the Japanese governments gets their support:
- Talk shit about Koreans, Chinese and other "barbarian" countries
- Keep the foreigners away from their land
- Make the country more xenophobic
Herp.
That sounds more like the Korea's political tactics actually
hmmm..Korean are actually more open than Japan... They have Less "No Foreigners Allow" (Some does, those are stingy bastards. Can't force them) Korea doesn't keep foreigners out of their lands...What the hell is Xenophobic?
and most importantly, they don't call foreigners "Barbarians"
Read news first before typing, Kid.
Also Korea makes some damn good films, unlike Japan. Japanese film industry is pure shit.
Dunno about "more open" thing.
About decade ago, me and few co-workers went for some game expo in Seoul, it was first time in S.Korea for most of us. We came far ahead of schedule, so decided to go out to eat something. Rather than eating in fancy hotel restaurant, we decided to find some small local place as we did in many countries earlier.
We asked one of girls working in hotel for some tips, she looked scared at us and left. At first we mistook it for standard "oh no, foreigner speaking in English, better run away!" reaction. But all people we asked did the same. No one here speaks English, WTF?
Finally one girl answered. Too be more specify, she looked around to make sure no one sees her, and said: "I'm sorry, we're not allowed to speak with foreigners, you should ask mannager"
Yeah right be honest, how many of you Koreans were told by your parents to marry within your own race, or "never marry a black person"?
Korea is by far the worst when it comes to accepting foreigners in Asia.
"Korea is by far the worst when it comes to accepting foreigners in Asia."
You're a fucking retard. I've seen a whole damn lot of Koreans married to foreigners (yes, black people too) so unless you've got some evidence you should stop talking out of your ass.
>"I'm sorry, we're not allowed to speak with foreigners, you should ask mannager"
That could be something else too like protecting the hotel from liabilities. They might want to make sure that the employee talking to the foreigner know enough about the language to not screw up telling the foreigner the wrong directions for example.
i visited most of the asian countries and they all have a significant amount of "distrust" against foreigners (not all people but the most of them)
they won't change if the youth continues chucking all the hatred their ancestors feed them with
LOL sounds like this kid needs to learn something about keeping your lips tucked in.
I have lived there for half of my life, since childhood. You don't know shit about Korea if you think they are welcoming of foreigners.
Learn up on something before you run your mouth.
07:25 LOL You really believe Japan is any different?! Hate to break it to you, but Japanese fathers don't want you impregnating their daughters, nor you dreaming of marrying them. And that does double if you're black. In fact their families will ofttimes disown their daughters if they do not break it off.