Listed on page 12 from page 11 of the special issue of Shukan Bunshun Bungeishunju Ltd., following is the editorial of Mr. Tokuoka Takao of journalist who was the former reporter of Mainichi Shimbun.
People from all over the world should read not only the Japanese also this editorial.
Sentence emphasis is mine.
When I went to a coverage in the Vietnam War, and received strafing from North Vietnamese Army in the fall of Saigon the day before. I was a reporter for "Sunday Mainichi".
It was surprised, the reporters of Americans fear or how the air raid. The clustered in the hallway of the hotel, they are trembling all rattling. I and did say. "What are you worried about. It's okay when absolutely the plane can be seen in the shape of an airplane. The scary, but when the plane coming toward is visible to the point, it is to be flashy”
However, although it slows even ran away from you to be flashy (laughs). But unlike the bombing, if you look on the airplane, machine gun bullets do not come. Incidentally, I've done say. "I was beaten because the plane of you guys, I know well"
When the end of the war, I was a junior high school four-year old system at the age of 15. From previous years, I worked at the factory of the Ministry of Railways that was in the west of Osaka. Got me strafe, and it was I met also in air raid of course.
The Osaka Railroad Service commissioner in those days is Mr. Sato Eisaku. It is the Prime Minister later. There is of that uniform rental formula, Sato, who was standing on stage, is, to speech "victory or defeat of Japan, rests on the work of the gentlemen," he gave us handed uniforms railroad worker in one person.
Well, when saying whether or not it wanted to say about what it is, we were taken under the name of the student mobilization, forcing.
If what you say "I want to be studying at home" or, "You're either stupid!" and, it was beaten abandon the cheek in leather slippers from the assigned officer.
The country was doing a war.
The view of life and death and the sense of ethics are different from today.
No one had the liberty to say, " No ", and so on.
Asahi Shimbun took out newly the reason " therefore in there was not compulsion taking of a comfort woman but there was a compulsoriness., that the question isn't different about our claim " is a quiddity.
If the comfort women had a human rights question, all people in the war had a human rights question.
It is to be frivolous completely and the stupid things that raise uproar, saying in short, compare actuality yesterday with the ethics today and “are an evil ".
I think that we should say it clearly.
Incidentally, when doing the story of the Vietnam War, after the United States withdrew from South Vietnam in March 1973, foreign troops remaining in the last was the Korean army.
It was well written recently but the comfort woman always stuck to the commissariat corps of the Korean Army. I, too, was called in by Korean. Face because it resembles the Japanese. And Vietnamese whore’s Nha Trang, was speaking Korean.
Verify article Asahi this is a big problem, but for the content, and leave it to Mr. Hata Ikuhiko and Nishioka Tzutomu's. I leave to introduce only one, an example that there is also a kind of testimony about the comfort women.
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