Wartime Military Records on Comfort Women Kindle Edition
by Archie Miyamoto (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The Japanese military is accused of abducting 200,000 women, mostly from Korea, and using them as sex slaves. WWII military records provide a completely different perspective. This is a compilation of primary source documents, mostly WWII military records of U.S., Allied, Dutch, Australian and Japanese reports and documents related to comfort women. It also includes and analysis of a diary of a Korean comfort station operator. It provides a true description of the comfort women system based on primary source documents.
Archie Miyamoto is a retired U.S. Army infantry officer who spent 29 years on active duty. He served two combat tours in the Korean war and two tours in Vietnam. On his first tour in Vietnam, he commanded a helicopter gunship platoon and was wounded twice. On his second, he served as a U.S. liaison officer to the armored cavalry regiment of the Korean Tiger Division. He served two tours as a military advisor to the Chinese military on Taiwan. On his first tour he introduced helicopters into the Chinese Army, acquiring fifty helicopters from U.S. Army excess inventory. On his second tour in Taiwan, he was the joint operations training advisor to their Ministry of Defense. On his last overseas tour, he served as the joint defense planning coordinator between the armed forces of Japan and the U.S. On his first tour in Japan as lieutenant, he was a platoon leader in the famous 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team. He has also served in Germany. After retirement from the military spent over two years in the Middle East as a project manager for a U.S. firm. After returning to the U.S., he was asked to join a Japanese corporation in Los Angeles. A few years ago, he retired as its president/chairman, and remained in the capacity of a consultant until last year. He is now completely retired and resides in Los Angeles.
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ASIN : B01NC0KEB4
Publication date : January 31, 2017
Language : English
File size : 417 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
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Print length : 85 pages
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Al Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars Valuable Reference on WW2 History regarding the Comfort Women
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2017
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As a historian, investigator and researcher with a military background, I can appreciate Lt. Col (R) Archie Miyamoto's approach to the Comfort Women scandal. As we currently are inundated with "fake news", one can not forget that there is also "fake history" as well.
Most of the other popular books regarding Comfort Women unfortunately stoop to the level of David Irving's denialist rants, using pseudo intellectual methods, Argumentum ad Populum (attempting to build popular support rather than proving the allegation), appeals to emotion, genetic fallacy, and appeals to improper authority.
It is the last one, appeals to improper authority, that this book addresses so well. Throughout the evolution of the Comfort Women narrative, from the early 1990s when they were arguing they were not paid enough, to todays outright fabrication that 200,000 were kidnapped, we can see that rarely if ever do the denialist authors such as Hicks, Dudden, Yoshiaki, etc use documentation, or when they do, it is contextualized to such extremes as to obscure the actual facts.
The author of the Wartime Records, has apparently taken his U.S. Army experience (2 tours in Korea, 2 tours in Vietnam according to the biography, including being the U.S. commander for South Korean soldiers in Vietnam), and published all the documents that are omitted or obscured in many other books, leaving it for the reader to evaluate the facts.
This enables the reader to gather the information directly from U.S., U.K, Dutch, and other investigators at the time of the events. In addition, it directly debunks the denialists speil that there were no documents or that those documents proving the 200,000 kidnapped were destroyed. Quite the contrary as Lt. Col. (Ret) Miyamoto points out, there were many documents, the U.S. particularly investigated it at the time, and it was found that the prostitutes were just that: prostitutes under well paying contracts that were equivalent to contract workers in todays military.
Wartime Military Records on Comfort Women has done an excellent job of placing the known allied records together and highlighting the salient passages that directly address the contraversy. No student or teacher of history or current affairs should be without it. Sadly many reporters have discredited themselves by reporting on the Comfort Women issue without referring to and understanding these source documents.
Considering this issue as a racially and emotionally charged one gradually being promoted in American cities and effecting international relations between South Korea, the United States, and Japan, it is well worth the historians, Asian regional affairs, or just the curious reader to read and keep as a handy reference.
I hope that other series of wartime records will be published to use as valuable references for researchers, teachers, and students alike.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book annihilates all the fake claims made by Koreans.
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2017
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This is by far the best book written on comfort women. This book annihilates all the fake claims made by Koreans. The author proves that all the claims on comfort women made by Koreans are exactly the opposite of the truth. Japan Military transformed poor Korean young women into millionaires. These Korean comfort women bought diamond and built houses in their home villages, precisely because their profits were protected from evil Korean pimps by Japan Military. If the comfort women had not been supervised by Japan Military, these Korean women would have been reduced to real slaves by Korean pimps. Before Japan annexed Korea in 1910, about 40% of Korea's population were slaves. Immediately after Japan annexed Korea, Japan abolished all the social classes in Korea, and liberated all the slaves, and took away the privileges of the ruling class Ryan-pan. All the Korean terrorists were from Ryan-pan who held reverse grudge against Japan that took away their privileges. After Ryan-pan returned to their old position as the ruling class in 1948, they started a series of massacres. From 1948 to 1980, the government of S. Korea massacred 1.4 million Koreans in S. Korea. The biggest one was Bodo League Massacre in which 1.14 million Koreans were massacred. To continue to hide their own crimes, the government of S. Korea started anti-Japan brain-washing education teaching fake history full of lies that are exactly the opposite of the truth.
Franklyn Roosevelt claimed in Cairo Conference of 1943 that Japan has reduced Koreans to slaves. Foreign Minister of Japan from 1941 to 1945 was Togo Shigenori. Togo Shigenori was a Korean whose original Korean name was Pak Moo-dok. This fact alone completely debunks Franklyn Roosevelt's claim that Koreans were slaves in Japan. In the US, the position equivalent to Foreign Minister is Secretary of State. The first black to become Secretary of State was Collin Powel in 2001. Therefore, Japan's Freedom and Justice for All was 60 years ahead of US. Moreover, between 1920 and 1945, Japan Military had 6 Korean Lieutenant Generals and 3 Korean Major Generals. The first Korean Lieutenant Generals were Cho Tong-yun, Lee Byeong Moo, who were promoted to Lieutenant General on 1920 Apr 26. The first black Lieutenant General in US was Frank Emmanuel Petersen Jr. on 12 June 1986.
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Hedwig
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great, non-biased book purely based on facts
Reviewed in Japan on May 9, 2017
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The War Guilt Information Program implemented by GHQ right after the war has initiated all the anti-Japan propaganda we are seeing today.
The communists, socialists, and propagandists in Japan backed by North and South Korea, and possibly by China, made the best of WGIP implemented by US military, and kept Japan from protecting herself from enemies. Japan was unable to implement laws and a military power because of various propaganda fabricated by anti-Japan mobs. Japan still does not have laws to punish spies and anti-Japan activists even today.
As a result, Japan's media, such as influential TV networks and news papers, have been plagued by communist spies and anti-Japan activists in order to brainwash people in Japan and abroad. They have been successful and as a result, spies from North Korea have been freely entering into Japan, and stole sofisticated high-tech information and abducted people. North Korea even has a headquarters of its spy agency in Tokyo, and Japanese Governent cannot do away with it.
As a result, North Korea was able to develop missiles and nuclear bombs on its own, and may have a missile technology that would reach USA with nuclear warhead in a not so distant future.
Thanks to fact based good books like this one, as well as information available now through Internet, people in Japan and West have finally started understanding what is going on, and are no more deceived by fabricated stories created by communists and its allies.
It is quite important that the truth be spread around and people stop believing fake news created by fake media, so Japan could implement laws to prevent spies from entering the country so state-of-the-art technologies would not be leaked to such rogue regime as North Korea.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A sincere approach demonstrated to the issue by the author.
Reviewed in Japan on January 16, 2020
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The composition of the book is great as it deals with only official records kept by authoritative bodies.
One thing I thought unfortunate is the case pertaining to the Semarang Incident in Java, Chapter D3. Major Keiji Okada, who was the only one to have been shot to death after the trial of 12 defendants was over. He left two notebooks before his death, which shed light on what really happend in Semarang from February to April 1944. An amazing account is included therein. I wish Lt. Col. Miyamoto read what I translated from the notebooks. He might have added a few paragraphs to the book upon reading my translation. It is "unfortunate" for the notebooks not to become available until 2018.
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Second to NUN
5.0 out of 5 stars 慰安婦とは何か
Reviewed in Japan on October 22, 2019
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慰安婦とは何か 色んな資料を用いて
何が事実なのか 淡々と述べてます
嘘の元を作った朝日とか お仲間の某国
それに迎合した当時の首相 官房長官
いろいろ腹立つ
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5.0 out of 5 stars Nice work!
Reviewed in Japan on April 24, 2017
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当時の資料から客観的に慰安所と慰安婦の実態を明らかにし、根拠なく不当に日本人を貶めようとする一部の国に惑わされないように説く良書。
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