Thursday, February 26, 2015

Truth about "Sex Slaves": Women’s Voluntary Service Corps

“Draft labour included many [Korean] women who were conscripted for wartime industries as part of the Women’s Voluntary Service Corps. The figure universally quoted is that women draftees totaled 200,000, of whom 80,000 were comfort women...” (George Hicks, The Comfort Women, p. 172)

Participating in the Women’s Voluntary Service Corps was required of (Japanese-Japanese) women in Japan proper but never of those who were Korean-Japanese women (everybody in Korea was a Japanese citizen then). If I'm right, this "universally quoted" figure of 200,000 represents the number of Korean-Japanese women who volunteered purely for factory work though I have no idea of how many of them were tricked or coerced into prostitution by Korean human traffickers. And assuming that this figure is really verifiable, the U.N. report by Special Rapporteur Coomaraswamy, which mentions "approximately 200,000 Korean" sex slaves, are absolutely and universally wrong.  


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