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The U.S. Congressional Research Service said in a recently published report that there is clear evidence that the Japanese government and military participated in the forceful sexual enslavement of women from neighboring Asian countries during World War II, including recruitment and the operation of brothels for Japanese soldiers. The CRS report is based on testimony from 20 former Korean sex slaves who were found by U.S. soldiers in Burma, and on a report by U.S. missionary Horace Underwood to the U.S. government. Dr. Underwood sent his report on ¡°comfort women¡± to Washington after being expelled from Korea by the Japanese government in 1942.
In a revised, longer version than a similar 2006 report, the CRS documented wrongdoings by the Japanese government and soldiers. In an apparent refutation to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe¡¯s denial of the Japanese government¡¯s participation in the sexual enslavement, the report makes it clear that there is no doubt that most of the comfort women were lured into sex slavery and were detained in brothels. The Japanese prime minister said last month that there is no credible evidence that the Japanese government or military forced women into sexual slavery. The CRS report was recently distributed to U.S. lawmakers.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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