24/11/2017 What the statues of comfort women symbolize

              San Francisco officially accepted a statue of ‘comfort women’ in spite of the protests from Japanese Prime Minister Abe and Mayor Yoshimura of Osaka City, which was San Francisco’s sister city. I have not heard that San Francisco provided objective evidence that the Japanese army had sex slaves. It would be impossible to do so because there were no such slaves as I discussed on the 18th of this month. Similar statues also exist not only in South Korea but also in Australia and Germany.
              Why are these countries willing to have such statues? The basic reason is that there are many people there who want to debase Japan by all means.
Many Koreans dislike Japan because Korea was once a part of Japan, not a colony incidentally. This is in stark contrast with the case of Taiwan, whose people like Japan very much even though it was also a part of Japan. In addition, Korean government has carried out anti-Japan education for many years.
              Because the USA dropped atomic bombs on Japan violating international law which prohibits killing civilians, many Americans want to make Japanese people appear evil or worthy of the a-bomb attacks by widely publicizing the matter of comfort women even if it is untrue. 
              Many Australians hate Japan because it was deeply involved in the Second World War and the Japanese navy attacked Port Darwin. It may be worth noting that William Webb, an Australian judge, played the role of the President of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East after the end of the Second World War.
             Germans want to relativize or make less remarkable the Nazi holocaust by supporting the forged story of Korean comfort women. Australians have a similar idea since they killed millions of Aborigines for sport hunting. Koreans also think similarly since Korean soldiers raped many Vietnamese women during the Vietnam War and they had many brothels for the US military in South Korea. 
The bronze statues of comfort women symbolize what these peoples have inside.

Comments and questions are welcome.
Kazuhiro Arai’s Japanese blog:             https://araikazuhiro.blogspot.jp/
Kazuhiro Arai’s Japanese home page:   http://araikazuhiro.world.coocan.jp/






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