Did the Japanese Army use Korean women as sex slaves during World War 2?

There is actually much more to this story than what most people in the west are being led to believe. If your are mainly getting your information on this issue through the mainstream media—whose reports are largely based on the Korean mainstream narrative—you might want to start off by taking a look at the following site, where Korean researchers (and those of other nationalities) voice views that are quite different from what you get in the mainstream.

An important part of this issue is whether or not these alternative voices are being openly expressed and heard in Korea and the west, which they are not.

The site is in both English and Korean. It is being run by anonymous individual(s), perhaps Korean, who have access to and are courageous enough to voice alternative viewpoints … And yes, in Korea, you do have to have more courage than you would normally expect to voice alternative view points.

Comfort Women Articles by Scholars

For starters, here is a snip of what Professor Park Yuha, Sejong University, South Korea, has to say on the comfort women issue:

Professor Park Yuha

I first confronted the comfort women issue in 1991. It was near the end of my study in Japan. As a volunteer I was translating former Korean comfort women's testimonies for NHK. When I returned to South Korea, the nationalism was out of control. The anti-Japanese activist group "Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery" a.k.a. "Chong Dae Hyup" (정대협 挺対協) was formed by the South Korean communists. Its leader said publicly it was determined to defame Japan for the next 200 years. Its propaganda turned me off, so I stayed away from this issue for years.

I regained my interest in this issue in the early 2000's when I heard that Chong Dae Hyup was confining surviving women in a nursing home called "House of Nanumu." The only time these women were allowed to talk to outsiders was when Chong Dae Hyup needed them to testify for the UN Special Rapporteur or the U.S. politicians. But for some reason I was allowed to talk to them one day in 2003.

I could sense that women were not happy being confined in this place. One of the women (Bae Chun-hee) told me she reminisced the romance she had with a Japanese soldier and the sorrow when he died in combat. She said she hated her father who sold her.

She also told me that women there didn't appreciate being coached by Chong Dae Hyup to give false testimonies but had to obey Chong Dae Hyup's order. When Japan offered compensation through Asian Women's Fund in 1995, 61 former Korean comfort women defied Chong Dae Hyup's order and accepted compensation. Those 61 women were vilified as traitors.

Their names and addresses were published in newspapers as prostitutes, and they had to live the rest of their lives in disgrace. So the rest of the women were terrified of Chong Dae Hyup and wouldn't dare to defy again.

Chong Dae Hyup (some of its members were arrested as North Korean spies) has used the comfort women issue for its political purpose, which is to drive a wedge into U.S.-Japan-South Korea security partnership.