The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
Explanation of comfort station usage time etc.
A picture of an adult woman as a "girl"
Testimony and record that is unreliable
British Museum's comfort women materials
Among the materials related to comfort women at the British Empire War Museum co-applying for UNESCO's "Memory of the World" (Memorial Heritage), the official document of ① was published on May 26, 1943 by Mandalay Garrison Headquarters "Comfort Station regulation ", there are four such things as defining.
In addition to showing clearly the time of use and official expenses from soldiers to officers, "Comfort station is the main rule to use in Japanese soldiers' army", indicating that comfort women played the role of "public prostitution" in the battlefield.
Also set to "Keep off a deed such as any case and survive even beatings assault", it prohibits acts of violence, such as a violent behavior to employees, including the comfort women as precautions to be observed.
"Addition a comment women," when a comfort women goes out, there is a sign of a manager or others carrying a demonstration, "and if the management permits, go out It Shows that that was freedom.
Photos and videos of ② and ③ were taken by British soldiers in 1945.
Among them, photographs of Andaman and Nicobar Islands with a photograph explanation of "The Chinese and Malay girls forcibly taken from Penang Island as" comfort girls "for the military for Japan" are obviously in touch with infants It is impossible to be a girl.
④ After the war, in an audio recording of British soldiers in the interview, Australian troops have been also included those to testify the comfort stations "Geisha House", which operated in the occupied Allied for which was stationed in Japan. There was also a testimony of a British soldier who said that Japanese women in their 20s who came out of a comfort station was taken to the Japanese army from the village and were also used as nurses, cooks, and comfort women.
⑤ to the section of this article, there was also an excerpt of the memoirs of the India-based British soldiers that witnessed the Korean comfort women that to have been forcibly abducted in Myanmar to the sex slaves of Japanese soldiers. The original is not held in the museum, the date and place of witness, the place and person are unknown and lack credibility.
The testimony of a Japanese woman is also information of a hearing, the ground to make the testimony true is not clear.
As a background to the application of materials lacking such authenticity, there is a misunderstanding of sex slave in comfort women spreading in the West because the Japanese government has not refuted. In case of
(Shin Okabe, London)