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Hey there! Today we bring another fact about the burning issue of comfort women between Korea and Japan:

In 2018 South Korea closed a Japan found foundation without giving any explanation to Japan. The orginazation was founded with the help of the money Japan gave South Korea in 2015 to compensate the comfort women. The foundation gave a big amount of money to comfort women and their family members

I quote some realllly interesting sentence from the article:

Abe told South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in in February the 2015 pact settled the dispute, but Moon said Japan was in no position to declare that as the “perpetrator of wartime crimes against humanity.”

“Kim Bok-dong, a surviving former comfort woman, welcomed the decision to disband the fund.

“The only thing left is the Japanese government’s repentance and compensation,” she said in a statement released by a civic group supporting the victims, known as Jungdaehyup.

The group, and the “House of Sharing,” another major advocacy organization that provides a shelter for the victims, respectively issued a statement, calling for Seoul to nullify the deal and return the 1 billion yen to Japan.”

sounds logical right? a comfort women who suffered under Japanese rule was happy about the disband but still demanded compensation.  The civil group called Jungdaehyup/ Chong Dae Hyup also demand to return the 1 million yen to Japan which Japan already paid in 2015 

you can read the full article here:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-japan-comfortwomen-abe/south-korea-risks-ties-by-disbanding-comfort-women-fund-japan-pm-idUSKCN1NQ0CH?fbclid=IwAR3xkrRVY4nYkucxdPuc08PfofhgF6rPEz9qZs7lG9HeGSRJepvPzJhKJMQ

there is another article:

https://www.france24.com/en/20181121-korea-close-japan-funded-comfort-women-foundation?fbclid=IwAR1U0boEOO1hxMfnopKHSZCOliblt2MZ9p2BYZ4M_p3OE0Z2KLiKHK7uk64

We continue to research about this  Jungdaehyup./Chong Dae Hyup cilvil group about its history and activities ;) 

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Hey folks, after gathering some more info and reading through even more articles and available resources, let us just leave this here... Please enjoy the words of one of the many "kidnapped by japanese military" comfort woman's own words about her days in Burma: Former Korean Comfort Woman Mun Oku-chu's Memoir "Myself as a comfort woman for Tate Division deployed in Burma" by Mun Oku-chu (In Mandalay, Burma) Page 75 I saved a considerable amount of money from tips. So I asked a clerical staff whether or not I could have a saving account and put the money in the account. His reply was positive. I knew that all the soldiers put their earnings in the saving accounts in the field post office, so I decided to put my money in the saving account. I asked a soldier to make a personal seal and put 500 yen in the account. I got my savings passbook and found 500 yen written on the passbook. I became the owner of the savings passbook for the first time in my life. I worked in Daegu as a nanny and a street seller from the childhood but I remained poor no matter how hard I worked. I could not believe that I could have so much money in my saving account. A house in Daegu cost 1,000 yen at the time. I could let my mother have an easy life. I felt very happy and proud. The savings passbook became my treasure. Page 98 Ichiro Yamada came to see me once a week and I was in a great mood on that day from the morning. But if he did not show up on his once a week holiday, I became so worried wondering if he was killed by the enemy that I could not work properly. He made me worry so much. Full article if you want read more:

https://scholarsinenglish.blogspot.com/2014/10/former-korean-comfort-woman-mun-oku.html?fbclid=IwAR1gtT_xLdJkzJaK9MSJhn2U23L8oZGljfVxY4LyGqtgjDYTwZUTfnlgBWU

We will continue to dig up more  and post them showing the two side of the comfort women issue, stay tuned :)

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This Blog is for...

... fact checks. 

I’m going to rant here a bit. Lately it has come to my (our) attention, that some bloggers / vloggers / semi-facebook-famous people are going hard on Japan and want to literally ban the Rising Sun flag with accusations of that flag being the same as the N* Germany’s well know *Kreuz. 

So we both jumped into the topic, researching the accusations listed on some of these blogs.

Our research included: 1. Japanese war crimes during WW2 2. Korean “comfort-women”  3. The Rising sun flag 4. The history of the swastika and sauvastika    5. The taisei yokusankai 6. South Korean war crimes during the Vietnamese war 7. Vietnamese “comfort women” 

These are just a few of the topics we kept digging around about to “educate ourselves” as being advised by one of the bloggers who:

- attacks Japan about all the above (points 1-4)

- denies anything about all the above (points 6-7)

- denies that Japan ever apologized or given any compensation (for points 1-4)

- actively attacks Japan’s Rising Sun flag comparing it to the N* Germany symbol

- excuses and denies all the wrongdoings of any of the Korean countries. 

We’ll soon start posting more and more on these above findings, articles and books we’ve found on all the above.

Please try to understand the following: WE ARE NOT GOING TO DENY WHAT JAPAN DID and WE ARE NOT GOING TO TRY TO WASH THEM OF THE CRIMES THEY COMMITTED. 

BUT! We WILL shed light to the other side of the coin, we will shed light to hypocrisy and self-righteousness. This blog is for education. We’ll use links to articles, we’ll quote books and we’ll always make sure that you guys can reach the materials we’ve been using. 

We only have ONE request: if you have ANY kind of opinion on any of the matters, only share them if you have FACTS as well. Give us links, other study materials and we’ll happily read them. 

Thank folks. 

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