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http://www.exordio.com/1939-1945/codex/Documentos/report-49-USA-orig.html
Copy of Entire Report
>A "comfort girl" is nothing more than a prostitute or "professional camp follower" attached to the Japanese Army for the benefit of the soldiers. The word "comfort girl" is peculiar to the Japanese. Other reports show the "comfort girls" have been found wherever it was necessary for the Japanese Army to fight. This report however deals only with the Korean "comfort girls" recruited by the Japanese and attached to their Army in Burma. The Japanese are reported to have shipped some 703 of these girls to Burma in 1942.
>RECRUITING;
>The inducement used by these agents was plenty of money, an opportunity to pay off the family debts (***a), easy work, and the prospect of a new life in a new land, Singapore. On the basis of these false representations many girls enlisted for overseas duty and were rewarded with an advance of a few hundred yen.(***b)
>LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS;
>They lived in near-luxury in Burma in comparison to other places. This was especially true of their second year in Burma. They lived well because their food and material was not heavily rationed and they had plenty of money (***c) with which to purchase desired articles. They were able to buy cloth, shoes, cigarettes, and cosmetics to supplement the many gifts given to them by soldiers who had received "comfort bags" from home.
>While in Burma they amused themselves by participating in sports events with both officers and men, and attended picnics, entertainments, and social dinners. They had a phonograph and in the towns they were allowed to go shopping.
>PRIOR SYSTEM;
1. Soldiers 10 AM to 5 PM -- 1.50 yen -- 20 to 30 minutes
2. NCOs 5 PM to 9 PM -- 3.00 yen -- 30 to 40 minutes
3. Officers 9 PM to 12 PM -- 5.00 yen -- 30 to 40 minutes
>SCHEDULES;
The girls complained that even with the schedule congestion was so great that they could not care for all guests, thus causing ill feeling among many of the soldiers.
>Soldiers would come to the house, pay the price and get tickets of cardboard ... The girls were allowed the prerogative of refusing a customer. This was often done if the person were too drunk.
>PAY AND LIVING CONDITIONS;
>In the latter part of 1943 the Army issued orders that certain girls who had paid their debt (***b advance paid to their family= few hundred yen) could return home. Some of the girls were thus allowed to return to Korea.
***a - their family needed to payoff family debts, so that they wanted advance pay
***b - the advance pay of few hundred yen (Japanese policeman's salary that time was about 45yen/month)
***c - they had plenty of money earned from their business = prostitution
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THE TRUTH OF COMFORT WOMEN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REf_5M46DS8
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http://killkorea.iza.ne.jp/images/user/20061227/34172.jpg
Comfort women crossing a river following the soldiers
http://killkorea.iza.ne.jp/images/user/20061227/34173.jpg
Picture of comfort women brothel house, says "Welcome brave soldiers of a holly war" "Japanese girls make best service with our true hearts and bodies"
http://blog2.fc2.com/w/welovekorea/file/01.jpg
(these ads say: COMFORT WOMEN NEEDED, age over 17 to 30, monthly pay over 300yen/month, advance pay up to 3,000 yen)
Koreans say these ads were proof of Comfort women existed, they later took these ads off from the site after finding these were actually ads for recruting prostitutes.
(Koreans cannot read Chinese charactors after abanding to use Chinese charactors to gain some cultural independence from China and Japan.
= Many Koreans cannot read old books written before the WWII (majority of the books were written in Chinese during and before the Chosen Dynasty, many books were written in Japanese during Japanese occupation, but if you know Chinese charactors, they are easy to understand 60%-70% of the meaning)
= a lot of room to rewrite history without knowing the true history.)
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