The following is the sequel of the preceding chapter.
People from all over the world is to should read not only in Japan,
House of Representatives lawmakers of the United States that made the condemnation resolution against Japan, officials of the United Nations, Ms. Coomaraswamy among them, then lawmakers of countries that made the resolution of the same in accordance with the United States Congress, should read distinctly.
It is from editorials across the page 57 from page 50 of the November issue of the Voice is a monthly magazine that PHP Institute Konosuke Matsushita began has issued.
It lacks coverage really.
In August 91 is, “The tears still as I recall, former Korean comfort women, half a century after World War II, to open the heavy mouth" articles based on the former comfort women testified that appeared.
Was written it is Takashi Uemura at that time, was the Osaka society section reporters.
It is difficult to understand the process of this previous comfort woman report, too, clearly.
According to the verification article of Asahi Shimbun, as for Uemura, the previous comfort woman reported the organization which calls the experience of itself " the Korean volunteer corps problem council (Teitai-kyo ) " by testified 〈 hearing a tape 〉.
Uemura of the Osaka taking charge says that he made a business trip to Korea especially by the contact from Seoul chief correspondent who got a testimony story and that he wrote. The article is the exclusive news which was handled in the Osaka version social column top. Why didn't chief correspondent himself write such exclusive news and did inform Uemura of it?
There is unknown, Uemura had married the daughter of women executives "Pacific War Victims Survivors Association" in the six months before publication of the article.
Then, former comfort women who testified became a member of the bereaved family meetings become plaintiffs in court seeking compensation to the Japanese government.
In other words, Uemura is in the form, such as support indirectly by him to write exclusive articles plaintiffs’ trial that mother-in-law is involved.
Asahi has been answerable "Uemura has continued to coverage of post-war compensation issue, it was reported for the purpose of benefiting from the mother-in-law is not," he said.
But, it does not disappear suspected Uemura that, or not it moved with the speculation of specific.
And if so, what was is the question is an intention. Given the relationship between mother-in-law, perhaps there was a feeling that "because of the comfort women support" Possibly.
Will some people "Is it a good," he said. I differ.
Exactly, there's the heart of the problem. Even if it supposes that there were human feelings “to want to help a pitiable comfort woman “to the reporter, I think that the report is different with that.
What fact is the problem is only coverage. Fact should not be bent because of feelings.
Uemura was taken to the field by the name of the " “female volunteer corps” by the article and wrote “the Korean military comfort woman “who could force a Japanese military physiognomy hand into the prostitution act.
It is one which made of the misunderstanding to confuse the female volunteer corps which was mobilized as the factory laborer with the comfort woman original.
How was the essential previous comfort woman testimony?
Originally, this place is the core of the story.
Uemura doesn't hear a story directly and hears an audio tape only.
It lacks coverage really.
Why didn't you discover the very person?
In the first place, how is it possible to confirm whether or not it is the story of the very person?
First, in it there is story being putting-on, it is the example to have neglected confirmation actually.
Actually, by the trial after that, the previous comfort woman is writing in the petition, saying “the sell “of her “to the kisaeng at 40 yen by the parents ".
Articles Uemura had become "former comfort women have been in the comfort women to be fooled at the time of the seventeen-year-old," she said.
The fact relevance is different.
And if so, Asahi or Uemura should have been modified or corrected when it was found the way, it is not so. Why not? Do because it wanted to spread the image of the "comfort women entrained fooled."
It first puts on that there is a stance.
This article continues.
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