『韓国の米軍慰安婦はなぜ生まれたのか』（ハート出版）
崔 吉城（広島大学名誉教授・東亜大学教授）
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セントジョセフ国際大学
社会工学部 教授 古賀 剛大 様
ソウル北方４０キロほどの村に住んでいた著者が１０歳の時に朝鮮戦争が起きます。北朝鮮軍、中国軍に占領された村を「解放」してくれた連合軍（米軍）でしたが、その歓迎すべき連合軍（米軍）が、村の女性をあさり、暴行、強姦を重ねる村の重大な脅威と化したのでした。これを救ってくれたのはソウルからやってきた売春婦達でした。「米軍売春村」の設置によって村の危機が解決されたことを体験したことをベースに、韓国政府公認の売春施設の広がり、戦争と性、売春、そして韓国の社会の変化にについての考察を行った本です。
日本軍の慰安所の設置はこうした事態が起こることを防ぐために、当時合法的に行われていた「遊郭」と同類のものを海外駐屯軍地区に開設したものでした。遊郭と同じく経営は民間業者が行い、「慰安婦」の募集も彼らが行っていました。
本書の第６章は、２０１３年８月に韓国で発売された『日本軍慰安所管理人の日記』（イスプ社）の主要部分を載せています。韓国人の売春業に携わった人の日記なので、当時の慰安所の実態がかなり正確に反映された記録と考えることができます。実際、ここで書かれているのを見ると、戦地という特殊性を除けば、日本国内、あるいは朝鮮における「遊郭」と同類ということがわかります。ただこの管理人は相当な稼ぎをしていたようで、２０００円、６００円、５００円と送金しています。上等兵の月給が１０円だったのですから。
「慰安婦問題」を考える上で、当時の一次資料も含めて非常に参考となる資料を提供してくれる本であります。
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平成２７年１１月４日 「史実を世界に発信する会」茂木弘道拝
The Origins of the US Army's Korean Comfort Women
By Ch’oe Kil-song,
Professor at University of East -Asia, Professor Emeritus at Hiroshima University
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This book was written by Professor Ch’oe Kil-song, who experienced the Korean War when he was ten years old. He was born and grew up in a village about 40 kilometers north of Seoul. He witnessed the goings-on of the liberators-to-be US-led UN Army. They perpetrated dreadful acts of sexual violence against women in his village. The only solution open the residents to solve this problem was to allow prostitution in the village.
Moved by this experience, he discusses the Korean government-approved comfort station in his village that was set-up specifically for comfort women that serviced the US Army, war, sex and prostitution, the transformation of Korean society after the war, and more, from a wide range of viewpoints.
“The Japanese military, in anticipation of problems that could occur, setup the so-called “comfort women stations.” To prevent atrocities from occurring, strict rules concerning the brothels were posted. No one in Japan (as well as Korea) viewed the “comfort stations” at that time as an oddity. This was the prevailing view of brothels throughout the country. Of course, the military never ordered, to say nothing of coerced, women to become comfort woman. They were recruited by brothel business dealers in the same way as other brothels.
Chapter 5 of Professor Ch’oe’s book cites key contents from the book entitled "Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager," which was published in Korea in August 2013. The Korean author of the diary was in the brothel business, once a manger and then a brothel proprietor. It can be assumed that the diary reflects the reality of overseas comfort stations, which were run in almost the same manner as domestic brothels. One should note his earnings. He sent home anywhere from ￥500 or 600 or ￥2000. This shows his earnings were quite high, considering that the monthly pay of a Japanese private first class soldier was ￥10.
The diary is valuable primary source material that illustrates the daily activities of a wartime Japanese military comfort station and the comfort women who worked in them.
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