2007.02.07 Wednesday 02:50
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There was no evidence of kidnapping. We tried to find someone who could testify who actually kidnapped the comfort women, but we couldn’t anyhow.
Decisive factor was the testimony by 16 former comfort women in Seoul right before we presented the discourse. We admitted the enforceability, though there were no convincing evidence and testimony, in response to the strong requests from South Korea, urging us to admit it at all costs for their honor.
If government liability by Japanese government was the assumption of this discourse, we requested for evidence based on strict investigation on facts. It was admitted with good conscience out of regard for Japan-South Korea relationships. I know there are debates on conclusion that we admitted on kidnapping only by testimonies from the former comfort women. I don’t have excuses as I decided so.
(“Compensation on Secret Treaty Diplomacy”, Yoshiko Sakurai, Bungei Shunju April, 1998) [3, P. 58]
Hearings from the former comfort women was revealed to be nondisclosure and without proof, however, with the results from these investigation,“kidnapping was admitted though there were no convincing evidence and testimonies” “under strong requests from South Korea”.
The part that says “constituted authorities had occasionally been engaged directly in the events where these women were gathered against their will …” in so called “discourse by Chief of Cabinet Secretary, Yohei Kono”, presented by Japanese Government in 1993, were the war crime acts by several soldiers who were away in Indonesia and Java. Without permission from the military headquarter, they forced Dutch female captive to work as a prostitute for one month without her consent. Allies tried 5 soldiers and 4 civilians as war criminals, and they were capitally punished or imprisoned.
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