My aunt was a vicitim of Japanese soldiers. I never knew for decades that my mother even had an older sibling. I was never ever told what exactly happened, her name was only brought up once in my lifetime. The one time her name was mentioned at a family gathering, my mother had an emotional breakdown and began screaming and crying uncontrollably. This coming from a woman I had barely seen shed tears my whole life. I was later told by a distant relative that horrible things had been done to my mother's older sister by the Japanese, fortunately my mother was so young nothing happened to her. To this day, decades later, I still can't bring myself to ask my mother what she witnessed.
@@OddDudeSays or possibly even contact someone in the book industry. They might be able to set up a ghost writer/find someone to help. Even if she doesn't want it released now, maybe she can will it released someday?
@@Memento_Mori_Morals I wonder if there's an organization that encourages people to tell their stories even though it is painful. @Sugar Tax can you at least video record the testimony?
@@OddDudeSays I'm aware there are a few that do exactly that but it really varies a lot. There are some NPOs that help get the stories of various native American experiences out, those are the ones I know most about-sorry.
I lived in Japan for over 10 years. The vast, vast number of Japanese don’t even know about this issue. Only a few know and most who know deny his ever happened. Denial is part of Japanese culture, they don’t value truth as much as others in the world do. Many people in the world love Japanese culture, but very few actually understand and acknowledge the dark traits in Japanese culture and society. It’s an amazing phenomenon.
@@kylenolan2710 US invaded the Philippines. During the Philippine - American War, as many as 200,000 Filipino civilians died from violence, famine, and disease (US Dept. of State). A US general even ordered to kill everyone over age ten. Atomic bombs and firebombing air raids burned to death tens of thousands of Japanese civilians. US thinks nothing of killing civilians in Asia.
When the Japanese surrendered in 1945, my father was the senior allied commander in Korea. The senior Japanese commander met with him to work out the details of ceasing hostilities. In the meeting, the Japanese commander asked my father if he wished to take possession of the comfort women. My father said No. My father was more concerned about liberating allied prisoners of war. He had no idea what he would do with the women. Years later he learned what these women had gone through. It was one of his greatest regrets the rest of his life.
I can relate to your father's regret. I was in a National Guard training program when one of my female classmates advised me that a male staff worker had offended her in comments he made to her. I was that day's executive officer, literally running ahead of our platoon to each training station to ensure that everything was set for us. I was so full of myself and my duties that I didn't follow up on her report by advising that day's student C.O. - let alone, informing our training cadre. Later, I learned that my classmate had gone on to make her complaint - to either our student C.O., or to staff. I believe the offender was disciplined in some way. I regret not backing up my classmate. As it turned out, I washed out of the program - so caught up in myself. A few years later, my former classmate visited our unit as a commissioned 1LT and we spoke briefly. That incident didn't come up and I'm glad she made the grade.
The Japanese military commander may have confirmed this, since the Allies sometimes used the brothels where the comfort women worked as they were after the Japanese garrisons were seized. If the story was after August 1945, Japan gave the civilian comfort women the status of military nurses and gave them priority in returning home with Japanese soldiers.
What did your father tell you about the military comfort women who worked in the Korean brothels that existed after 1945 and also during the Korean War (25 June 1950 - 27 July 1953)? Did your father have use with a comfort woman?At the time, there were brothels in South Korea, which were used by American soldiers. After 1945, rape and murder by Allied forces in Japan was so horrendous that the Japanese Government sought help from the occupying forces. At least 3,500 women were raped in the first month after the Allied landings alone, followed by 283 in 1947, 265 in 1948 and 312 in 1949, although these are only some of the confirmed reports.Crimes by the US military continued, with a total of 4,476 crimes reported in police files from May 1952 to June 1953, including 8 murders, 435 manslaughters, 51 rapes and 704 assaults.Even though there were brothels in Japan even after the landing. February 1954: a 10-year-old girl was raped and then torn from her pubic area to her anus with a knife. There were a number of other incidents, including a four-year-old toddler who was raped and left in critical condition, and a sudden sniper attack that resulted in her death. so please tell me(Japanese).The United States is justice. Should be able to answer. After 1945, American soldiers still used comfort women working in brothels in Korea, but how did your father handle his sexuality until he found out about it?
My korean great grandmother was 14 at the time of Japanese occupation in the south, I’ve been told many times by family members to never take a dna test or an ancestry test, the horrifying implications of my grandmothers birth with always haunt me. I don’t think i ever want that fear to be reaffirmed.
In order to work as a comfort woman, a woman must register with the police. The lower age limit is 17 years. In addition, women aged 17 needed written permission from their parents to register. Fourteen is the lower age limit for factory workers. Koreans have confused factory workers with comfort women, but comfort women and factory workers are all different, including the relevant laws.
In the Korean Peninsula at that time, the law concerning comfort women was the "貸座敷娼妓取締規則" promulgated on March 31, 1916. In contrast, the decision to send women aged 14 and over to munitions factories as factory workers was taken in the "女子勤労動員ノ促進ニ関スル件" of 13 September 1943.
On March 31, 1916, the law concerning occupations such as comfort women was promulgated on the Korean Peninsula. On the other hand, on October 1, 1939, the law to requisition citizens as factory workers came into force on the Korean Peninsula. On the peninsula, however, female factory workers were recruited by recruitment rather than by the method of 'mobilization'.
In school we never learned anything the Japanese did to the other Asian nations, only what Germany did. Thank you for shining a light on this. My mom told me about the human experiments, but not about this.
Just wait to discover what URSS and other comunist dictatorships did. To have a clue, German assassinated 9 million people; china assassinated 65 million.
Me too. I read like crazy, and found out about this. That was back in the days of books. There was a WW2 American movie about women being taken. Veronica Lake blew herself up with a grenade. That film began my research.
The Japanese performed as much horror as the Germans. Two reasons the Japanese tortures, etc, t is not as well known and only now coming to light is (One) Eisenhower's insistence that photos be taken with him saying the world would not believe the horror without the photos and (Two) the Germans industrialized their torture and killing as if they were producing machinery. No reasonable person would believe anyone would create a human killing factory. Both countries were experts at torture and killing. Tragically, it is not just history - it is part of war if not always on such a huge scale. If you have any question about accountability of Japanese men for the way women are treated, read about the torture and murder of Murder of Junko Furuta and what was done to those who tortured her for FORTY days and then murdered her. Some things don't change - no justice there. The motive for what was done for her? She turned down a date.
If you want to know what was really going on, I suggest you read the following pages. → Comfort Women Contract ; Crackdown on Academic Freedom over Harvard Professor's Paper
Never, never, never forgive and forget Japan's atrocities and war crimes in 1875~1945. Korea, China and Asian countries and even Western people, over 30 millions were killed, raped, kidnapped and tortured by Japanese imperialism and militarism. We also should remember Unit 731. It's very horrible and scared Japan's war crime, too.
I agree that this kind of atrocity should not be forgotten, but it is a general problem that happens at almost every war. Remember the atrocities at the Vietnam war some decades ago by Americans/Koreans and even at the Ukraine war happening right now. What guarantees you wouldn’t commit the same crime in an extreme situation like a war? It’s not the number that should be emphasized, but the nature of humans common to everyone, including you. Taking it personally, overinterpreting the facts, and blaming one particular race/nation for what they did in the past is the real disaster.
How DARE they ask those statues to be removed??!!! The things those women endured are unfathomable to anyone who has not been raped and abused similarly, it completely changes you on a fundamental level. The shame and pain you feel for forever are almost unbearable, and yet many of them still stand. Still, ASK...NOT FIGHT... for what they deserve! They deserve reparations!!!
Many Japanese people reflect on their past. It is unfortunate, but it is true that some right-wing groups justify the past. After the war, the Japanese government apologized and compensated the countries affected. We have also cooperated with development by conveying development aid funds and industrial technology. What more do you want from the Japanese government and the Japanese people?
@@地獄龍-m7q As an American who's grandfather fought the Japanese, I say the Japanese people alive today should not have to bare the guilt of crimes they did not commit. You did not commit war crimes and I did not drop an atomic bomb on Japan. Every country/nation/religion/group/ethnicity/etc. has a checkered past. Violence, abuse, conquest, and subjugation were commonplace in the past (and still are in some areas of the world). If we want to fully move on from all that stuff we must learn from the past but focus on the future. In fact, a lot of those terrible things result from people settling old scores, obtaining retribution for the past, and holding the living to account for crimes of the dead. Japan is a great country, you have every right to be proud and no reason to feel guilty.
@@地獄龍-m7q It's simple. Be consistent in your actions. As you said, Japan apologized, but why are Japanese politicians representing Japan making the same remarks as the so-called Japanese right-wingers you are talking about? Japanese right-wingers, if they are powerful figures in the political world who control Japan, can they be said to be a minority? And if your attitude changes every day, can that be considered a sincere apology? An apology is a promise not to do something like that again. This does not mean that you should kneel at the feet of the victims.
@@地獄龍-m7q That's not true at all. The majority of the Japanese government and people still deny the existence of comfort women or claim that they were not coerced. The same applies to other war crimes such as 731 human experimentation, the Nanjing Massacre, the Manila Massacre, and cannibalism of Allied prisoners of war.
My family is Dutch/Indonesian. My Oma's sister was taken as a comfort woman by the Japanese in Bandung Central Java Indonesia during WWII. She survived and showed amazing strength of will and determination. She was never the same afterwards though. 😔
The actual war criminals were the Anglo-Saxons! alone because of the initiation and the financing of the two wars of annihilation and he essentially annihilation not only of the soldiers, even in prison! (e.g.) Rainwiesenlager even after the end of the war2!!!! and the bombing massacres on the civilian population without any military sense, just to mention the worst, Hiroshima and Nakasaki / Dresden, Hamvburg, Cologne,..... and hundreds of large cities without any military significance! Pure terror against civilians!!! ............ historians have proven that without the Versai shameful dictate and the war mongers.Churchil / war criminals and genocides might not have fought at all!?!?! AND IN "UKRAINE" THE SAME CRIMINALS ARE AT WORK AGAIN AND DS DECADES BEFORE I VERY TENTATIVELY RESPONDED TO PUTIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As a Japanese citizen I hope that my country will one day admit its own atrocities and give its victims what they are owed so that we can finally make progress as a global community…
Nobody can give them back what was taken from these women. It's an empty notion that many can replace their loss. If we can prevent wars that would be best solution for mankind. Russians should wake up fast.
The west also did terrible things, the fire bombing of German cities had no military value other than burning thousands if civilians alive. We all have done terrible things I'm not sure recompense will do any thing of value. The only thing I feel that can do any good is to make sure things like this don't happen again, they will though it's in our nature.
It’s hard to equate the war crimes with the current polite Japanese. I suppose it could be compared to the current anti carbon westerner in politics now . Starvation Is a little more removed from this hands on oppression but the results will be the oppression of the ones that can’t defend themselves.
@@garryrichardson4572 when I was in my senior year at high school we had a Japanese exchange student who we nicknamed 'Leo". He was absolutely amazing to have as a classmate. It's very hard for me also to see these kinds of atrocities being done by earlier Japanese generations but the facts are there.
The actual war criminals were the Anglo-Saxons! alone because of the initiation and the financing of the two wars of annihilation and he essentially annihilation not only of the soldiers, even in prison! (e.g.) Rainwiesenlager even after the end of the war2!!!! and the bombing massacres on the civilian population without any military sense, just to mention the worst, Hiroshima and Nakasaki / Dresden, Hamvburg, Cologne,..... and hundreds of large cities without any military significance! Pure terror against civilians!!! ............ historians have proven that without the Versai shameful dictate and the war mongers.Churchil / war criminals and genocides might not have fought at all!?!?! AND IN "UKRAINE" THE SAME CRIMINALS ARE AT WORK AGAIN AND DS DECADES BEFORE I VERY TENTATIVELY RESPONDED TO PUTIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today Japan is one of the most polite and considered nations in the world . Same with Denmark today compared with 1000 years ago. Things change, grow up!
@@jacobjorgenson9285 What are you referring too? Was only in the last couple of decades that Japan finally admitted too and made reparation's to the victims. A lot more war criminals got away in Japan than in Germany. They even to this day have a shrine to a war criminal. Not saying current generation should have to hang their heads for what their for fathers did. But these are the facts.
My grandmother and her siblings were alive by this time. Her father (my great grandfather) dug a hole under the house to hide his children as their neighbors were waterboarded then hit in the stomach by bamboo and babies were tossed into the air and bayonetted. My grandmother and her sisters cut their hair and made themselves ugly to disguise themselves to avoid being assaulted and the brothers were hidden to avoid being tortured for fun.
These women are possibly the strongest women of a war time generation. I knew a little about them and thank you for teaching more. I hope they are never forgotten.
unfortunately they will be forgotten because Japan does not want to admit it committed such atrocities. Japanese youth are detached from the history of horrors their government intentially chose to surpress. The collective west would rather believe in fabrications of Uyghurs torture inorder to further their political ideology and continual surpression of what they consider to be an enemy.
I'm a CSA survivor... thanks for acknowledging that being unable to have kids (or issues on various parts along that path) can happen from more serious abuse. I likely cannot have kids due to this, it is horrible but I feel less like a freak now.
Visited an old folk's home when I noticed some of female residents have a deep scare across their faces. Was told by a senior nurse that worked there that they were teens when the war broke out and to prevent them from being dragged off as comfort women, they sliced up their faces to look ugly.
@@tirebiter1680 Talked to them and found out sadly due to their scars no man wanted to marry them, and they live alone till the govt deem them unfit and sent them to charity old folks' home to be cared for.
@@wumao6797 Wellll... I think I would like to be married to one if the rest of her looked really good and she would have a bag over her head when we did it.
In Japan, Taiwan and Korea, the Japanese military threw the recruitment of comfort women to intermediaries, while in the rest of the world, they asked local influential people to recruit them. As shown in the US military's survey data, comfort women had a large income. That amount was about three times the salary of an army general at the time. Assuming that Japanese soldiers actually abducted women, would they pay them a salary so high that they could buy a house after just a few months of work? That is not possible.
This is the most horrendous and evil thing I have ever heard. I cannot imagine the pain, suffering,fear and panic the girls and women felt during this time. I don’t understand how someone can take someone else’s humanity like that. I pray the women that suffered through these horrors are resting in peace now. My daughter is 11 and I cannot fathom someone subjecting her to something like this. This is just evil, pure and simple.
@@ali.hassanmir American schools do, but other than the slave trade, and the conquest of the Indians, they tend to skim over it. The group who committed them are the people setting the curriculum after all.
I am German, and in my country the Nazi crimes are admitted, and waving Nazi symbols or denying Nazi crimes like the holocaust is punishable by law. In its own interest, Japan should do the same. The Japan of today cannot be held responsible for the crimes committed during the war, as today's Germany is not responsible for the crimes committed by the Nazis. We must not forget history, in order not to allow these things to happen again.
But Japan has never repented and apologized for their war crime and inhumane atrocities like Germany did. Even flat out denying the history, erasing history from their history book. How could the Asian countries who suffered those atrocities believe that today's Japanese people learned from the mistakes from their grandfather generations? How can we believe that they won't do it again?
Well, the woke crowd is trying to bury the history off ww2 and blame it on Caucasian people. They do not even study ww2 in many high schools. Ask a kid who was on the Axis powers in ww2, and they are likely to say George Washington as anything. Thats why the commies want to destroy education and use it to make more hate and division. If people knew that Hitler really was a socialist first, and that is part of what nazi means, a lot less people would be impressed with it. I notice that, since Musk bought Twitter, I don't have my comments censored.
Over the decades, the issue has been thoroughly investigated by numerous historians, who have separated fact from legend. If you want to know the reality of the comfort women issue, we recommend you to read the following pages. → Comfort Women Contract ; Crackdown on Academic Freedom over Harvard Professor's Paper
Reminds me of The Rape of Nanking. Before my grandfather passed away, he'd always talked about how lucky my grandmother was and how how brave she was as a little girl. The atrocity of history rings such blistering truths.
Having a teenage daughter, makes me imagine the voices of those young girls aged as young as 10 crying for days asking for a little mercy while being raped and beaten by several dozens of different guys from early morning to late at night inside my head. Those people are among the worst creature that ever lived..
@@BombsAwayMineCraft it shouldn't take having a daughter to recognize discrimination and sexism and see women as people. what about the women you had that daughter with? nasty.
As a Filipina married to a Japanese man, this was one of the heaviest topics we discussed when we were dating. Thankfully, he studied in AUS for a second degree and his curiosity about ww2 made him aware of the brutalities Imperial Japan has done, including my country. He feels remorseful on what his ancestors and Japanese govt why the truth hasn't been told as it is to the current generation of Japanese. In my family, my great grand aunt was one of those comfort women, she was being lied to having a nice job elsewhere as opportunity to earn more but ended up being a comfort woman. She died due to illness while in the station, sadly. My marriage with a Japanese man proves that there's forgiveness along the way from the atrocities but I hope the dark past should not be forgotten or diluted so that it won't ever happen again. And, I hope my great grand aunt would rest in peace for what she had endured. EDIT: The salty comments are your own but this is me and my husband's resolution about the histories of our heritage. We didn't choose to be born as a Filipino and Japanese. We acknowledge the bitter past, bore some forgiveness in our personal lives and live life in our terms. We are going 6yrs and more in our marriage and no bitterness between us I hope these commenters also lead a fruitful life outside these inflammatory comments.
Talk about Stockholm syndrome lmao. Japanese don't change they will always be monsters behind their fake smile and fake hospitality, you became blinded by love and are now his new-generation comfort woman. Nice way to dishonor your dead relatives who fell victim to them.
Some things like this actually has happened in other areas of China all over as well. My grandma (born in 1927) saw some horrible things that happen during the 8 years after the Japanese took Peking (Beijing) in 1937. It was the first city the Japanese took after the war started due to the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. My grandma had to have her hair cut and dress as a boy. She explained that the Japanese come in and ended up checking the houses and buildings, they took all the food and many items. Later on they actually even poisoned the local water. With no food and water the people there had to live off gathering rain water and trying to dig up wild potatoes and eating a special type of a part of a tree after boiling it. Later on she witnessed the Japanese several times taking local women, teenage girls and even female children back to their camp/headquarters. She told me she never remembered seeing them come out atleast alive, but instead their bodies being wheeled out onthe back of a cart... My grandma also eventually witnessed prisoners being brought in and tortured in the middle of the street. They made them sit down with guns pointed at them and eat rice with shaved peices of bamboo incide of it. It made them scream I'm pain she told me and beg for death. My grandma also saw others forced to drink the dirty poisoned water as much as they could until their belly couldn't take anymore. Then the Japanese would turn them over and stomp on their belly and the water would spray out. There were some other things, but I wouldn't go into that. It's a bit surprising but even though my grandma went through all of this for over 8 years, and she herself was chased and attacked by a Japanese soldier and almost raped (but thankfuly escaped)... and never did see her real family every again, she told me she held no grudges against the Japanese at all when I talked to her. Infact her favorite electronic TV brand was Sony, and always said the Japanese were smart people. To her the war was over and she was free. She knew some people did things that were obviously horrible, but was not going to let that control how she views individuals.
Mu mother told me the Japanese would use the Chinese and Koreans to do human testing like what the Nazis did to the Jews. Did your grandmother ever mentioned that?
@@vkl0253 I don't actualy recall my grandmother ever mentioning to me anything like that happening (which I'm honestly thankful for). However, as I got older and did more research into the 2nd Sino-Japanese War/WW2 I eventualy learned about "Unite 731". It was part of the Japanese Imperial Army from the early 1930s through the end of WW2 that took prisoners and even civilians and used them as for live unspeakable biological warfare experiments. Reading, watching videos and learning more about Unite 731 truly made me wonder how we humans could possibly go so far as to do such inhumane and horrific things. I'm very sorry if your mother or family member had to witness that or loose someone because of that.
@@dmraven Were the “some other things” 10x worst than what you’ve mentioned above? The world should know about the “some other things” so this dark part of history is fully realised and never forgotten.
Outstanding reporting! Thank you for sharing the darkest side of war. May the victims find peace and those who carried out those unspeakable crimes receive the full measure of hell!!
It is sad when you can't even retell a truth without worrying you "might" hurt someones feelings. We NEED to hear the truth, sometimes, straight forward and bluntly.
The very nerve of the Japanese to ask for the statues of the comfort women be taken away. The country is certainly rich enough to have paid compensation ten times over, in the past thirty or forty years.
My mom told me when she was in grade 4, she saw some grade 6 girls who showed early physical maturity were not coming to school and heard they were taken. I am a 60 yr old Korean. My mom is 91
Yes I'm married to a Filipina. For the last three years.. She has talked about her grandmother .. Hiding in the jungles of the Philippines to get away from the Japanese. And being forced to be a comfort woman.. Yes they lived out in the countryside away from the cities... Every time they heard a motor of a vehicle... All the women would run and hide in the jungle... with that children.. After the Americans invaded invaded the Philippines.. Is the local residents trusting for some reason... And would come out in the open.
It was the same story here in Malaysia where I live, little girls were forced by their parents to hide in the wood when their can hear Japanese trucks approaching.....
I talked with Japanese women who, while in college, was made to read "The Rape of Nanking". The surprising thing is that it was a Japanese college. She said she cried and was shocked. She asked if it was true. I said that and worse throughout Asia during the war. That was a deep as she would go but even that was a surprise to me. As a teacher, the War years are not taught at all to children. Only the Atomic bombs and how America was a brutal country for using them is taught. But that is for another video.
Historical facts about Nanjing can be seen in the following video ① Documentary film Nanking. 20 Feb 1938 戦線後方記録映画『南京』② 南京事件があったとされる期間の南京市内の様子 If you want to know the facts about the comfort women issue, the following pages will help. ① Comfort Women Contract ; Crackdown on Academic Freedom over Harvard Professor's Paper ② Comfort Women The North Korea Connection
This happened in Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia too. Ukrainian females in eastern Europe now. Plus children being taken to the US adoption by 'christian' charities. Western Military members are guilty too. War is ugly.
@@manaharukaze1666 mate - no one asked. that is not Michael's point. check historical facts about atomic bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki. It wasn't real nuclear fusion bomb, it was just a bunch of tnts wrapped around in glad wrap. If you want to know facts about bombing of japan, check out (How japan never surrended - atomic bomb was staged - by German historian Engela Merkel)
@@Josh-eu1vr If the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima were to be realised with TNT, 16,000 tonnes of TNT would be required. The B-29 strategic bomber has a maximum bomb load of 9 tonnes.
@@Josh-eu1vr ignore him he’s all over this video trying to subtly imply that Japan never took in comfort women or that they did but it was only a small amounts
A key point that you skipped at 14:20 is that until the early 1990s JP denied, yes, denied, that comfort women ever existed. They denied it happened. I moved to JP in 1990 and the groundswell was gaining steam, I think around '91 or '92 the govt officially recognized that comfort women existed, but that they were volunteers. I watched a WWII history channel documentary many years later and a US patrol boat intercepted some Filipino fishing boats and they asked about Japanese navy craft, the Filipinos replied yes, they are around and they took all of their women. There was plenty of evidence regarding JP but, as you point, out, the women fought hard for recognition.
They know it, they just have great shame about it and would rather forget about it, and do better. When a small monument was erected in a nearby park to honor comfort women, the Japanese Consulate was horrified, and even angry. They have brought a huge amount of business to our state, so withdrawing their economic support would have had an unpleasant impact. It took a lot of discussion with our governor and others to apologize convince them to take no action.
@@sandraleigh4023 US GIs frequented Japan's 'comfort women' (AP) / China Daily 2007-04-26 _with tacit approval from the US occupation authorities - Japan set up a similar "comfort women" system for American GIs._ US government would be horrified to know the truth.
@@davidcase1286 Japanese soldiers never forced women to become comfort women in Korea, and the Japanese government will never admit to that. Also, the source of the story is the numerous incidents that occurred in Japan and Korea after World War II and during the Korean War by U.S., British, and Korean forces. The story of UN soldiers and Korean soldiers abducting women and sending them to brothels during the Korean War was compiled in a report by an international NGO that was investigating war crimes during the Korean War at the time. There is also testimony that women were referred to as Type 5 supplies and were placed in drums and sent to the front lines.
The crimes that’s committed against females is crazy to me! We all have sisters, daughters, grandmothers and more importantly a MOTHER!!! So willingly and knowingly committed these types of crimes knowing you came from and go home to a woman is sickening
May mankind learn from this dark period in history. Thank you for covering this very sensitive topic in this video.May these women find the peace they so deserved.
Naw, we haven't learned enough. Women and little girls still get trafficked even in the most civilized nations. It's why I never visit strip clubs or massage parlors, temping as it sometimes was.
good luck with that our history is as dark as dark gets all the way back to the beginning of recorded history this is what we are. in times of war we are at our worst. and this is saying something considering we are pretty despicable to begin with. War changed me. i don't think i'll ever be the same. Everyone that has gone into battle can relate to that.
we can name the real monsters. Adolf might make the top 5 When you have people like Stalin and Mao and then lets not forget Dr Mengele. Some of the Roman emperors would probably hit top 5. Pretty frightening to think that Adolf and his atrocities might not even be a top 5 candidate for most despicable ever.
A part of history that was never taught in history class. I am learning this now at 65 years old and this brought a tear to my eye's, to think that a person can do this to another human being on such a large scale, this is right up there with the Holocaust. I hope these woman find peace when the pass on to the other side.
They were able to do it BECAUSE it was on such a large scale. Your commanding officer is OK with it and then one guy in your group goes along with it and then another and another. Some people can justify literally anything if they see others do it before them. If it was a one off here and there, it's not likely to spread. That's the cruel irony of the human condition. I wonder how many of the Japanese soldiers went home after the war and later on had PTSD after it fully sunk in what they had done. People do a lot of dumb things when they are 20 years old that they're deeply ashamed of at 30. This would put that on an unimaginable level, and that would be even worse once you get married, and have a daughter of your own. I don't think anybody won in that situation in the very least.
The comfort women issue has been created by various legends since the 1980s, so it is not surprising that you did not know about it. If you want to know more about who did it, I suggest you read the following article. → Comfort Women The North Korea Connection
I visited Auschwitz for the 1st time a few months ago. At one point in the tour, there are 100s of framed photos of prisoners hung in several rows of a long hallway. I began to get more and more curious as I looked at these poor souls and wondered why there were so many young men but, very few young women. I also noticed that although there were several pictures of healthy, nice looking men, most of the women pictured were not particularly healthy looking or traditionally attractive. My fears were confirmed by my tour guide after I asked her “I mean no disrespect but, is there a reason there is such a disparity in numbers between handsome young male victims versus pretty young female victims?” She answered quietly “Yes. Many of the young ladies were forced into prostitution. Very few of them survived.” I just can’t imagine how much pain and terror they all had to endure.
I am going to answer this, but the source I read was from many years ago - about 40 or more, and I do not remember it specifically. From this written report, the Nazis has a special "rape" camp for young girls and pretty women. They raped the f**k out of them, according to the report, and most died within weeks - they just kept filling the camp with new girls. As Germany began to fall, the order was supposedly given, that above all else, all evidence of this camp's existence needed to be destroyed. All the women were killed, and the camp was destroyed. The German high command did not care if the Allies found Auschwitz or other such camps; they feared what would happen to Germany if the Allies found this camp. This report came from the confession of many German soldiers who admitted its existence.
Prostit for Who. Not German’s under people were there to be killed not to mix filth with master race. Local’s also not likely needed low class comfort women. Chimney Asap women and children , only able to work got some extra week’s to live and Die slave labour
Forced prostitution was absolutely real under Nazi rule. But most women in the concentration camps were made to work "regular jobs" while malnourished on purpose until they couldn't work anymore, at which point they were murdered. Just like the men.
Thank you. It's individuals like you who contribute to making the world a better place. I truly appreciate the subtle and delicate tone of this documentary.
Nothing will ever change if people don't stand up for eachother. And not the people far away from the problem. The people standing right next to the problem.
The actual war criminals were the Anglo-Saxons! alone because of the initiation and the financing of the two wars of annihilation and he essentially annihilation not only of the soldiers, even in prison! (e.g.) Rainwiesenlager even after the end of the war2!!!! and the bombing massacres on the civilian population without any military sense, just to mention the worst, Hiroshima and Nakasaki / Dresden, Hamvburg, Cologne,..... and hundreds of large cities without any military significance! Pure terror against civilians!!! ............ historians have proven that without the Versai shameful dictate and the war mongers.Churchil / war criminals and genocides might not have fought at all!?!?! AND IN "UKRAINE" THE SAME CRIMINALS ARE AT WORK AGAIN AND DS DECADES BEFORE I VERY TENTATIVELY RESPONDED TO PUTIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Korean parents lived in hell after their teenage daughters were kidnapped and raped everyday by enemy soldiers. All parents died not knowing what happened to their daughters. It's an ABSOLUTE INSULT to call them comfort women. They were/are rape victims.
Being a decendent from Dutch East Indies DEI (now Indonesia), my family had to endure the atrocities that the JAPanese imp army committed. My male family members were all interned in POW camps across E. Asia (Japan and Java/ Celebes/Sumatra/ Birma) and all female and children relatives were interned in camps in DEI. At least 2 of my great-aunts were victims of being "comfort women". Neither was an adult (16-17 yo) and neither ever spoke of this. I only got to know 1, the other died from mental and physical problems. only now are these being recognized as being related to what she endured during the war, 45 years after her passing. The JAPanese gov NEVER admitted their atrocities!! And my great-aunts, and all other family members, were always waiting for this apology! Not even the financial part, just an apology!!! Now that entire generation has passed away. Not 1 living family member who can tell the truth. Thank you for sharing this to the world and to those that didnt know of this, or those that didnt want to know about this.
And the worst part of it all: Emperor Hirohito was the leader who was never held neither accountable nor responsible for the crimes committed against humanity! Sad world we live in!
@@marcusbrown188 Hirohito was not innocent for the crimes committed. He just got away because Truman and McCarthur wanted to be PC and make nice peace with Japan and get the Marshall plan going. But Hirohito ordered a lot of crimes against humanity acts. Hirohito, and some of his family, got away with it!
I ve read and heard of brutalities throughout history... But this video shocked me due to the industrial scale of it all , sheer number of victims and the fact that this all happened less than 90 years ago... It makes you fear that with the ''right'' circumstances , these events could be repeated...
My great-grandmother was a survivor of the japanese occupation in WWII. She was a teacher. From stories I heard from my other family members, (I never had the courage to ask her myself) it was genuienly traumatizing. Her school/classroom was burned down with students and teachers still in it. She watched her male students as they were killed in horrible ways (being used as target practice for the japanese soldiers, and she and her female students were raped and tortured, and most of the girls were killed afterwards. The ones who weren't were used, as mentioned in the video, comfort women. Please keep in mind that during this time, my great-grandmother was 26. Her students were between the ages of 10 and 12. These are children. Japan has never apologized for these horrendous warcrimes.
Old testament says the same as you do. Deuteronomy 20. But you never protest that Muslims do it all the time. You never protest Sharia law of Islam. Why? Nadia Murad and the thousands of harem girls traded by Muslims? Canada banned her from telling her story to protect Islam. Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 484: - “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’” Tabari 9:69 "Killing Unbelievers is a small matter to us" The words of Muhammad, prophet of Islam. Sahih Bukhari (8:387) - Allah's Apostle said, "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah'. And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally."
I was in Korea in 1992 at a market and purchased a souvenir. It rang up less than the posted price. I asked the clerk why less? They said "Oh, that price is for Japanese". In Korea, the hatred towards Japan is obviously still strong.
It's about the one thing the Chinese and Koreans and Filippinos and Vietnamese and all the other South-East Asian countries can agree on, it's the fact that the Japanese attitude, trying to gaslight the entire world into thinking they didn't commit war crimes, is disgusting.
Since President Syngman Rhee, South Korea has been educating its people against Japan. As a result, those born after the war are more anti-Japanese than those who actually experienced Japanese rule. The following video may be of interest. → 韓国は日本をどのように思っているのかを考えたいと思います (You Tube) Currently, anti-Japanese and anti-American education is actively promoted in South Korea by The Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union, which is strongly influenced by North Korea. Some intelligent Koreans are beginning to realise that there is a discrepancy between the history they learnt in school and the historical facts in the process of researching actual history on the internet and making frequent trips to Japan. However, this will not be the majority in the future. It is by the nature of the Korean people discovered by Westerners who stayed in Korea over 100 years ago.
I saw the documentary about comfort women and it caused me extreme upset. Women from all countries and over the world are often treated as if they are less than a dog not as important as anything else. I have learned a lot about history and I know a lot about WWII. Besides the war I’ve always thought Japan has always been a good country until I watched the documentary about Comfort Women. I will never again have respect for a government that denies victims that they created and refuse to acknowledge. And that anger includes my own country. I have grown up with unforgiven rage for crimes done against innocent people because of their color, religion, and in general any excuse to downgrade another person. It will never end until decent people do more than nothing to make a stand against and do not allow evil to grow. Good people doing nothing are just victims waiting to be made. Find a cause and be a part of stopping it.
I've heard about the comfort women, but I never knew Imperial Japan used Filipinas, Europeans, and even Japanese women too. I also want to thank you for mentioning that most survivors aren't interested in compensation. Contrary to common belief, they're just tired of the Japanese government denying their existence. Even in cases where they were offered money, many of them refused it.
Some comfort women received compensation from the Japanese government. Some Korean comfort women did not receive it. There was a political motive behind this, and there was peer pressure from those around me to not accept it. The political intention is to prolong this issue and force the Japanese government to make concessions. The idea is to revise various treaties and agreements to gain advantage in trade and politics. The other reason is to use the existence of comfort women to stir up national sentiment and divert attention from domestic issues. Korean politicians have used comfort women to increase their approval ratings. The Korean government has no intention of ending the various problems of the past. The Japanese government and Japanese people are opposing such plans by the Korean government.
This is often talked here in Philippines if not casually. Comfort Women were taught to us in our Junior High School, and I'm also Half Japanese so I'm really shocked to know that my ancestors or even my my grandpa who fought in the war witnessed this and never talked about it. My mother's side in the family are something of a samurai class so I assumed that my grandpa fought in the war. He was stationed in Philippines and told me that he was in the Bataan Death March and witnessed the atrocities his brethren made. Tho he's not directly involved, I'm still really shocked and depressed on how brutal the Japanese were in my grandpas time. (He was 21 that time as well and he didn't tell me anymore details but he met this one Filipino named Frederico and he said his eyes were full of hatred but he had a duty to fulfill as well as they were both soldiers.)
Let me tell you a Dutch Indies true story. My aunt, oldest sister of my mother, was one of them. She “survived” because a Japanese officer, physician, “liked” her for himself. When my grandfather was released from Japanese imprisonment barely alive, he was told he had a grandchild who was now in an orphanage and that if he wanted to save his granddaugther that he should adoped her before she would be sold. My aunt never really recovered and my grandfather never saw his firstborn daughter back. I guess she could never look him in the eyes again. The remaining surviving children, my mother being one of them, all are warvictims, like many of that generation. Right after WW2 the Indonesian revolution, in the former Dutch Indies, followed. My uncle second oldest was brutale taken from home and murdered by these “independent warriors” for libaration of the now new nation of Indonesia. In 1958 my mother arrived here in the Netherlands where nobody wanted to hear about a new warvictim story. To many had there own. My mother grew-up in a warzone for almost her whole childhood of almost 18yrs. But when she hit her toe, she would curse followed by another horrific anecdote but never chronologic. Many years later I had a pretty good idea how her childhood was where as a child death was accepted as one off the earliest thoughts. In all the few suriving photographs of her childhood she never smiled ones. Although a pretty little girl with thick straight black hair and pearly white skin as she is an “Indo”, a halfbreed of European mixed with locals. Here father was a French man. Now she is 82 and has Altzheimer what maybe a blessing is for her, not remembering every horrific event she survived. She and the other barely spoke about It. Nobody wants to hear a sad true story. Only succesfull stories, even if they are romantisized. Not only the Japanese did horrific things but also the Indonesian militias during the Indonesian Revolution where whole Dutch families where rapped, mudered or otherwise butchered. Thats a true story for you.
My Grandma (is now deceased), had also witnessed the horrors of what the Japanese soldiers does to the women, and girls in Philippines. This documentation is very accurate to what my Grandma tells us, her mother always used to hide her in mud when she was just a kid when they hear the Japanese marching near their way. My Grandma also saw how the Japanese kills the babies, they throw them up, and catch them with bayonets. The worst one she saw was the time when she saw a girl gets r*ped, violated, tortured, and killed by putting things inside of the girl's private. My Grandma's mom wasn't also very fortunate... because she told us when her mom, again hid her under mud. Her mom unfortunately got caught and never seen again. It takes a lot of bravery for my Grandma to tell us the horrors of what she experienced. And i admired her for that. Rest in Peace Grandma, i wished that you and your Mom have finally got that final embrace you always wished you took before she disappeared.
Thank you for this video. The horrors of war, just never cease to amaze me. These poor women , nothing would be enough to have compensated them after the war ended.
@@eugenecbell yep, in the medieval ages there are similar events and we have no ways to know if there are even harsher acts than what is shown in WW2, but one thing for sure is that there are more barbaric human acts way way past before the guns were created, proof to that are those torture tools from medieval eras, and those are just tools. And there's the Mongols too.
My Grammy was taken from Poland by the Na2is to the forced labor camps. My great grandmother hid her under the floorboards as long as she could. The stories are beyond thinkable, she gave many interviews over the years about what happened. People were routinely unalived in front of her, many more simply couldn’t survive the torture, starvation and inhuman conditions. War is hell. Whatever side you’re on, everyone suffers, often for idiotic reasons.
I worked at a company years ago that hired in a young lady that was Japanese and I struck up a conversation with her about her life over there. This is not to lambast the people over there I have no axe to grind or anything like that. She loves it over here in the United States, Men over here are more polite than over there and she loved to be treated with dignity and respect. Over there she said Men treated her more like property than a Woman and she said she hoped she would never have to go back. She already had her green card and was proud to be an American Citizen, She had a Boyfriend that was getting ready to be married to and she was looking for a long life in the US. That was 15 plus years ago and I hope she is doing well.
Die eigendlichen Kriegsverbrecher waren die angelsachse ! allein wegen der anzettelung und der finanzirung der beiden Vernictungs kriege und er im wesenlichen Vernichtung nich nur der Soldateh,selbst in gefangenachaft! ( z.B.) Rainwiesenlager selbstnach dem Kriegsend2!!!! und den bomben Masackern an der zivielbevölkerung ohne jeden millitärischen sinn nur um die schlimmsten zu erwehnen, Hiroschima und Nakasaki / Dresden, Hamvurg, Köln,..... und hunderte große Stäte mehr ohne militärische Bedeutung! Reiner terror gegen Zivilisten!!! ............ historiker haben nchgewiesen das es ohne dasVersaier Schand- diktat und den den Krigstreiber.Churchil / kriegsverbrecher un Völkermörder vielleich gar-nicht zum krig gekommen wehre!?!?! UND IN DER "UKRAINE" SIND DIE GLEICHEN VERBRECHER WIEDER AM WIRKEN UND DS SCHON JAHRZENTE BEVOR ICH PUTIN SEHR ZAGHAFT ZUR WEHRSETZTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What the Nazis did in Europe was truly inexcusable and one of the worst tragedies in human history. Then I learned about The Japanese and the things they did in The Pacific Theater. Wow, whole other level of raw brutality and sadism!
@@liamh1015 a good mach. I don't know but in terms of atrocity humans can reach levels of bestiality hard to predict. Mao did 40/50 millions of victims, Pol pot killed 1 evry 5 in cambodja. Nazi did experiments on kids to check after how many punch in the head ususlly people die, woman. they did shooting gallery with 5 years old kids excaping from them, Soviet army in berlin raped sistematically all womans between 3 and 80 and the most of times after they shooted them. Tito made common graves where it killed more then 10.000 italians living where untill before the war was italy. several are still there attached with metal wire, dropped alive.. Pinochet was used to throw oppositors on the open sea.. more then 3000 and 30.000 tortured, the list is pretty long.
@@mrmetalzeb4596 Fair point, but when I was in school history class they mostly covered the atrocities of The Nazis and USSR. It wasn't till college that I learned about the crimes against humanity committed by Japan like Unit 731 (truly evil and sadistic scientists who give Dr.Mengele a run for his money) and The Rape of Nanking, where The Japanese soldiers brutally raped and slaughtered EVERYTHING in their path. It really was a shock to learn about the pacific theater after only learning about The Holocaust in school.
I'm from Philippines and my great grandpa has a sister during the world war 2 who have been abducted by japanese soldiers and used as a comfort woman for months. She was brought back to their home after that but she's not the same, what I heard from my grandparents when I was a child is that she looks like she became insane after months of torture, r*pe, and starvation and doesn't want to talk nor interact with other people and even on her family 😔 they also said that she only lived 2 months after it😔 very sad 😢
As a Filipino who was stationed in Japan in the air force who dated Japanese women upset my grandparents who lived the events of Japanese invasion. My grandfather was a Philippine ARMY veteran whose seen many of his friends shot and beheaded, while my grandmother forced herself and siblings to hide amongst the rice fields eating rats to survive to evade capture of becoming comfort women. I told my grandfather that I'm doing an invasion of a different kind in Japan.
I knew little bit of the subject from watching some of the Korean UA-camr I watch, but I feel that you did one of the best explanation of this horrible situation. I was not aware of Japanese, Filipino or even European I only thought it was Korean and the Chinese woman. thank you
This dark period in japan’s history is horrendous, and seems to have been all throughout its imperialist past. But unlike the Germans it seems Japan still tries to downplay and diminish their horrific crimes
My late father fought in World War II at Guadalcanal and was awarded the Bronze Star for Valor. Without any explanation or elaboration, my father would openly express his hatred and disgust for the Japanese people.
I doubt if there are many people out there, who realize how barbaric Japanese were to their enemies during World War II! The rape of Nanking was the worst example of how animalistic, how cruel these Japanese soldiers were!
During the pandemic I needed to get a visa to visit Japan. There is a Comfort Woman memorial statue without walking distance of the Japanese consulate in San Francisco. I visited and spent a few moment in silence and solidarity for those poor souls and their surviving families. Never again.
My Girlfriend is Korean and I didn’t really know of this till it came up one day and I’ve just been learning about it. Wow humans are the worst. My heart goes out to all those poor women.
You don't see anything. That is some worse more than others. You have a girlfriend, you need to stop research about it. Your GF doesn't like about those like I used to be when I told my mom everything I knew
The literacy rate in Korea in 1945 was close to 50%. If, as Koreans claim, Japanese soldiers abducted 100,000-200,000 women in Korea, the comment sections of these videos would be filled with historical documents that prove it. What Korean positivist historians found in their long research were various historical documents that disproved the legend. In the first place, the average Korean would have been in an uproar immediately after the war if such a thing had actually happened. Rather, they would have rioted even during the war. Currently, there is a conflict in South Korea between those who have learned about the reality of the comfort women issue and those who still believe in the legend.
I was actually a projectionist playing films during a local festival at my alma mater back in the mid-2000's as my first part-time job, and one of them was a documentary explaining how the Japanese sex slavery trade in WWII was largely if not wholly responsible for financing Imperial Japanese military operations during the Pacific Theater. Not only comfort women, but even boys were also kidnapped and made sex slaves.
Muslims do it all the time and you never protest. Why? Nadia Murad and the thousands of harem girls traded by Muslims? Canada banned her from telling her story to protect Islam. Tabari 9:69 "Killing Unbelievers is a small matter to us" The words of Muhammad, prophet of Islam. Sahih Bukhari (8:387) - Allah's Apostle said, "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah'. And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally."
Not only should the statuary NOT be removed, but it should also be increased in size and scope. Large plaques in multiple languages should explain the purpose of the statuary, and that Imperial Japan still pretends that it didn't really do this. That it was a few isolated incidents carried out by "mostly foreign conscripts" not actual Japanese soldiers. Japan still "tries" to deny its crimes in chemical and biological warfare conducted largely in China. There were many atrocities committed during WWII, but Japan is definitely in the top ranks of barbarity!
Just that not nobody really cares about the past. If they say yes or no makes no difference whatever. And it will not matter to anyone in 100 Years from now.
I have been to multiple war museums in Japan and I couldn’t believe how they left out all the atrocities that occurred pre 1943, they really only focus on how they got nuked
I would like to hear this same story told from the perspective of the Japanese men. Instead of passive voice, "they were raped," "they were beaten." they were forced," I would like you linguistically put the responsibility and accountability where it belongs by using an active voice. This behavior will not change until we name, count, and describe the perpetrators and what they did. Describing the victims will never change anything. How many Japanese men raped the comfort women? Which officials were involved? How did the men organize something like this and how heinous is it that men in power use human lives like this. Instead of saying, "they were denied access to medical care," please say, "the soldiers/commanders/field officers/medical personnel refused to treat them and left them on the streets to die." Instead of saying "they died of hemorrhage," please say, "the soldiers literally raped them to death." Please. Tell the truth. Put the story where it belongs; on the heads and names and actions of the men who did this.
Applause to *A Day in History* and anyone who gave that first step in watching the video, learning and accepting that such cruelty occurred to women on both sides during wars, rather than ignoring it because, to them, it is "too sensitive."
Thank you for making this public. I think it 's a good think to show some of the harsh aspects of reality so that we can prevent repeating our mistakes from history. Respect!
As a Japanese, I am already ashamed by the fact that they never taught me about this in school. and I could never imagine how many people I did hurt because of my mere ignorance. One thing I can respect about my own ancestor is, None of men in my bloodline went to the war. It is a well-known history in my household. They either made up persuasive reasons to not join them or Studied hard and got jobs that would make them in a position of ' too important to let them join the war' Because they knew something was off. This will not help any victims in any way, But I could never ever be proud of anything more than that.
dont be shAme yoUng man. Japan fought for Asia against western europe white people at the time. western people colonize Asia for 3~400 years. And Japan came and help All Asia. Howevr they lost the war. we didnt call wW2 . we were used to call big Asian war. 大東亜戦争。
@CLIFFORD DANG you don't think the Japanese never did the same thing in China? I'm pretty sure the Japanese killed more civilians then the Germans did but was never taught or really spoken of . Look into it and get back to me
Thank you for making this video. Those Japanese who don't admit their soliders raped comfort women from China, Korea or any other Asia countries will never realize how horrible and sad the history was until the raping thing happens to their mother, sisiter, daughter or even grandma. My kids, grandkids, greatgrandkids...will never forget the brutal crimes Japanese committed.
Wow! I had never heard of this. So freaking tragic what these women went through. War is when men can not control their anger and rage at each other. Sometimes valid, most of the time not. In all circumstance, it's the innocents that pay the highest price.
It's absolutely horrific what one human being is albe to do to another whether during war or not. I'm amazed by all the WW11 veterans I have had the greatest pleasure meeting before passing on and saying thank you! For you and your families service and sacrifice for my freedom. But what got me truthfully is how happy and thankful that they were that they got to meet me. You sees 95% of us probably wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the Greatest Generation to have had done absolutely whatever had to be done to, witness to and had happened to themselves the horrors of having to do to another human being they where brought up believing to help thy neighbor, stranger or basically fellow human being. Then never talk about it so they didn't expose that amount of hatred a man can be apon there families till later in their life. My oldest uncle a WW11 veteran always had a smile and a little gleam in his eye telling us kids about the war during the holidays get togethers how they perfected the piano wire across a road just high enough to take the head off the German half track comanders standing up driving by them all hell would break loose. And now it's looking like it might happen again to another generation around the world. Absolutely terrible to think about let alone experience it. 🦅🇺🇸
This makes me think about the easyness many people today talk about making war. It is as if for them it seems to be a kind of video game. It seems as if they are unfit to understand the real horror of war. Politicians with their lust for power exploit this. In EVERY war on EVERY side there are these kind of athrocities.
What sickens me isn't the endless stream of atrocities humanity seems to create but rather the fact any and every circumstance could potentially be real and even more so already occurred just unknown to history
it's all so heart-breaking. i'm glad for channels like this and i think more history should be taught in schools. humans should never forget their barbaric pasts....
I was told that my great-grandfather fought in ww2 against the Japanese. He recalled his best friend on how he was tied up and beaten as he watched his wife get brutally raped by the Japanese, she committed suicide shortly after. My great-grandfather was displeased when he heard that the war has ended, stating that he hasn't killed enough Japanese.
A masterpiece bruvva! A masterpiece thanks a million! That’s whywe study hard to show the world our (human being) past and never ever repeat that ever again! NEVER AGAIN!
My grandma, a Taiwanese living during Japanese occupation period, told mom that the Japanese government would sometimes look for nurses for the army, but secretly the girls all knew that it were for the comfort women.
My aunt was a vicitim of Japanese soldiers. I never knew for decades that my mother even had an older sibling. I was never ever told what exactly happened, her name was only brought up once in my lifetime. The one time her name was mentioned at a family gathering, my mother had an emotional breakdown and began screaming and crying uncontrollably. This coming from a woman I had barely seen shed tears my whole life. I was later told by a distant relative that horrible things had been done to my mother's older sister by the Japanese, fortunately my mother was so young nothing happened to her. To this day, decades later, I still can't bring myself to ask my mother what she witnessed.
Can you write down her story. This needs to be documented. Direct testimony.
@@OddDudeSays or possibly even contact someone in the book industry. They might be able to set up a ghost writer/find someone to help. Even if she doesn't want it released now, maybe she can will it released someday?
@@Memento_Mori_Morals I wonder if there's an organization that encourages people to tell their stories even though it is painful. @Sugar Tax can you at least video record the testimony?
@@OddDudeSays I'm aware there are a few that do exactly that but it really varies a lot. There are some NPOs that help get the stories of various native American experiences out, those are the ones I know most about-sorry.
is she… dead?
I lived in Japan for over 10 years. The vast, vast number of Japanese don’t even know about this issue. Only a few know and most who know deny his ever happened. Denial is part of Japanese culture, they don’t value truth as much as others in the world do. Many people in the world love Japanese culture, but very few actually understand and acknowledge the dark traits in Japanese culture and society. It’s an amazing phenomenon.
The Allied nations didn't liberate their Asian colonies and killed people there when they stood up for independence. Do you know this ?
Japan is a very misogynistic country.
@@marimarihosp3035, whataboutism = concession
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US invaded the Philippines. During the Philippine - American War, as many as 200,000 Filipino civilians died from violence, famine, and disease (US Dept. of State). A US general even ordered to kill everyone over age ten. Atomic bombs and firebombing air raids burned to death tens of thousands of Japanese civilians. US thinks nothing of killing civilians in Asia.
But then Americans know that America attacked Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan killing 2 million civilians , 1/3 children. But they just don’t care
When the Japanese surrendered in 1945, my father was the senior allied commander in Korea. The senior Japanese commander met with him to work out the details of ceasing hostilities. In the meeting, the Japanese commander asked my father if he wished to take possession of the comfort women. My father said No.
My father was more concerned about liberating allied prisoners of war. He had no idea what he would do with the women. Years later he learned what these women had gone through. It was one of his greatest regrets the rest of his life.
Korean government operated comfort stations for US-led UN army during Korean War
@@marimarihosp3035 I will let my next generations decide about this.
I can relate to your father's regret. I was in a National Guard training program when one of my female classmates advised me that a male staff worker had offended her in comments he made to her. I was that day's executive officer, literally running ahead of our platoon to each training station to ensure that everything was set for us. I was so full of myself and my duties that I didn't follow up on her report by advising that day's student C.O. - let alone, informing our training cadre.
Later, I learned that my classmate had gone on to make her complaint - to either our student C.O., or to staff. I believe the offender was disciplined in some way. I regret not backing up my classmate.
As it turned out, I washed out of the program - so caught up in myself. A few years later, my former classmate visited our unit as a commissioned 1LT and we spoke briefly. That incident didn't come up and I'm glad she made the grade.
The Japanese military commander may have confirmed this, since the Allies sometimes used the brothels where the comfort women worked as they were after the Japanese garrisons were seized.
If the story was after August 1945, Japan gave the civilian comfort women the status of military nurses and gave them priority in returning home with Japanese soldiers.
What did your father tell you about the military comfort women who worked in the Korean brothels that existed after 1945 and also during the Korean War (25 June 1950 - 27 July 1953)?
Did your father have use with a comfort woman?At the time, there were brothels in South Korea, which were used by American soldiers.
After 1945, rape and murder by Allied forces in Japan was so horrendous that the Japanese Government sought help from the occupying forces.
At least 3,500 women were raped in the first month after the Allied landings alone, followed by 283 in 1947, 265 in 1948 and 312 in 1949, although these are only some of the confirmed reports.Crimes by the US military continued, with a total of 4,476 crimes reported in police files from May 1952 to June 1953, including 8 murders, 435 manslaughters, 51 rapes and 704 assaults.Even though there were brothels in Japan even after the landing.
February 1954: a 10-year-old girl was raped and then torn from her pubic area to her anus with a knife. There were a number of other incidents, including a four-year-old toddler who was raped and left in critical condition, and a sudden sniper attack that resulted in her death.
so please tell me(Japanese).The United States is justice. Should be able to answer.
After 1945, American soldiers still used comfort women working in brothels in Korea, but how did your father handle his sexuality until he found out about it?
My korean great grandmother was 14 at the time of Japanese occupation in the south, I’ve been told many times by family members to never take a dna test or an ancestry test, the horrifying implications of my grandmothers birth with always haunt me. I don’t think i ever want that fear to be reaffirmed.
In order to work as a comfort woman, a woman must register with the police. The lower age limit is 17 years. In addition, women aged 17 needed written permission from their parents to register.
Fourteen is the lower age limit for factory workers. Koreans have confused factory workers with comfort women, but comfort women and factory workers are all different, including the relevant laws.
@@manaharukaze1666 untrue
In the Korean Peninsula at that time, the law concerning comfort women was the "貸座敷娼妓取締規則" promulgated on March 31, 1916.
In contrast, the decision to send women aged 14 and over to munitions factories as factory workers was taken in the "女子勤労動員ノ促進ニ関スル件" of 13 September 1943.
@@hana-rv6ru What is the evidence?
On March 31, 1916, the law concerning occupations such as comfort women was promulgated on the Korean Peninsula.
On the other hand, on October 1, 1939, the law to requisition citizens as factory workers came into force on the Korean Peninsula. On the peninsula, however, female factory workers were recruited by recruitment rather than by the method of 'mobilization'.
War is very cruel and the Japanese took cruelty to an incredibly abysmal level.
Just look at how much American Soldiers treated the Japanese in the Pacific. Stopped Taking Prisoners because they literally kept faking surrenders.
Yes, the worst and the science experiments they did on people is just sickening
@@bswihart1 So were the Nazis, too, especially on their persecution of the Jews.
@@HuaWei-qk4vg literally everyone knows that but not Japanese war crimes.
@@localextremist2839 I am surprised that people don't know about the Japanese war crimes.
In school we never learned anything the Japanese did to the other Asian nations, only what Germany did. Thank you for shining a light on this. My mom told me about the human experiments, but not about this.
いやちゃんと第二次世界大戦のことも学けど😅その古い記憶さっさと捨てろよじじい
Just wait to discover what URSS and other comunist dictatorships did.
To have a clue, German assassinated 9 million people; china assassinated 65 million.
Me too. I read like crazy, and found out about this. That was back in the days of books. There was a WW2 American movie about women being taken. Veronica Lake blew herself up with a grenade.
That film began my research.
The Japanese performed as much horror as the Germans. Two reasons the Japanese tortures, etc, t is not as well known and only now coming to light is (One) Eisenhower's insistence that photos be taken with him saying the world would not believe the horror without the photos and (Two) the Germans industrialized their torture and killing as if they were producing machinery. No reasonable person would believe anyone would create a human killing factory. Both countries were experts at torture and killing. Tragically, it is not just history - it is part of war if not always on such a huge scale.
If you have any question about accountability of Japanese men for the way women are treated, read about the torture and murder of Murder of Junko Furuta and what was done to those who tortured her for FORTY days and then murdered her. Some things don't change - no justice there. The motive for what was done for her? She turned down a date.
If you want to know what was really going on, I suggest you read the following pages.
→ Comfort Women Contract ; Crackdown on Academic Freedom over Harvard Professor's Paper
Never, never, never forgive and forget Japan's atrocities and war crimes in 1875~1945. Korea, China and Asian countries and even Western people, over 30 millions were killed, raped, kidnapped and tortured by Japanese imperialism and militarism. We also should remember Unit 731. It's very horrible and scared Japan's war crime, too.
I don't care, I wish I was a comfort women for hot men
@@schabowy6149 I don’t care what kinks you have you absolutely do not wish you where a comfort woman 💀
I agree that this kind of atrocity should not be forgotten, but it is a general problem that happens at almost every war.
Remember the atrocities at the Vietnam war some decades ago by Americans/Koreans and even at the Ukraine war happening right now.
What guarantees you wouldn’t commit the same crime in an extreme situation like a war?
It’s not the number that should be emphasized, but the nature of humans common to everyone, including you.
Taking it personally, overinterpreting the facts, and blaming one particular race/nation for what they did in the past is the real disaster.
@@schabowy6149 stupidest shit said ever lol
@@my_account5603 spitting facts
How DARE they ask those statues to be removed??!!! The things those women endured are unfathomable to anyone who has not been raped and abused similarly, it completely changes you on a fundamental level. The shame and pain you feel for forever are almost unbearable, and yet many of them still stand. Still, ASK...NOT FIGHT... for what they deserve! They deserve reparations!!!
Many Japanese people reflect on their past.
It is unfortunate, but it is true that some right-wing groups justify the past.
After the war, the Japanese government apologized and compensated the countries affected. We have also cooperated with development by conveying development aid funds and industrial technology.
What more do you want from the Japanese government and the Japanese people?
@@地獄龍-m7q "some right-wing groups justify the past" ... piss...off
@@地獄龍-m7q As an American who's grandfather fought the Japanese, I say the Japanese people alive today should not have to bare the guilt of crimes they did not commit. You did not commit war crimes and I did not drop an atomic bomb on Japan.
Every country/nation/religion/group/ethnicity/etc. has a checkered past. Violence, abuse, conquest, and subjugation were commonplace in the past (and still are in some areas of the world).
If we want to fully move on from all that stuff we must learn from the past but focus on the future. In fact, a lot of those terrible things result from people settling old scores, obtaining retribution for the past, and holding the living to account for crimes of the dead.
Japan is a great country, you have every right to be proud and no reason to feel guilty.
@@地獄龍-m7q It's simple. Be consistent in your actions.
As you said, Japan apologized, but why are Japanese politicians representing Japan making the same remarks as the so-called Japanese right-wingers you are talking about?
Japanese right-wingers, if they are powerful figures in the political world who control Japan, can they be said to be a minority? And if your attitude changes every day, can that be considered a sincere apology?
An apology is a promise not to do something like that again. This does not mean that you should kneel at the feet of the victims.
@@地獄龍-m7q That's not true at all. The majority of the Japanese government and people still deny the existence of comfort women or claim that they were not coerced. The same applies to other war crimes such as 731 human experimentation, the Nanjing Massacre, the Manila Massacre, and cannibalism of Allied prisoners of war.
My family is Dutch/Indonesian. My Oma's sister was taken as a comfort woman by the Japanese in Bandung Central Java Indonesia during WWII. She survived and showed amazing strength of will and determination. She was never the same afterwards though. 😔
The actual war criminals were the Anglo-Saxons! alone because of the initiation and the financing of the two wars of annihilation and he essentially annihilation not only of the soldiers, even in prison! (e.g.) Rainwiesenlager even after the end of the war2!!!! and the bombing massacres on the civilian population without any military sense, just to mention the worst, Hiroshima and Nakasaki / Dresden, Hamvburg, Cologne,..... and hundreds of large cities without any military significance! Pure terror against civilians!!! ............ historians have proven that without the Versai shameful dictate and the war mongers.Churchil / war criminals and genocides might not have fought at all!?!?!
AND IN "UKRAINE" THE SAME CRIMINALS ARE AT WORK AGAIN AND DS DECADES BEFORE I VERY TENTATIVELY RESPONDED TO PUTIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So tragic. Did she ever marry or was able to have children?
@@ravishingrickrude8016 she eventually married a very lovely and understanding man. But was never able to have children.
@@michaelvanwest6262 She never had chidren because of Uterine Breach.
My oma is from bandung too!
As a Japanese citizen I hope that my country will one day admit its own atrocities and give its victims what they are owed so that we can finally make progress as a global community…
Nobody can give them back what was taken from these women. It's an empty notion that many can replace their loss. If we can prevent wars that would be best solution for mankind. Russians should wake up fast.
Thank you... Hopefully this will happen.
The west also did terrible things, the fire bombing of German cities had no military value other than burning thousands if civilians alive. We all have done terrible things I'm not sure recompense will do any thing of value. The only thing I feel that can do any good is to make sure things like this don't happen again, they will though it's in our nature.
It’s hard to equate the war crimes with the current polite Japanese. I suppose it could be compared to the current anti carbon westerner in politics now . Starvation Is a little more removed from this hands on oppression but the results will be the oppression of the ones that can’t defend themselves.
@@garryrichardson4572 when I was in my senior year at high school we had a Japanese exchange student who we nicknamed 'Leo". He was absolutely amazing to have as a classmate. It's very hard for me also to see these kinds of atrocities being done by earlier Japanese generations but the facts are there.
These atrocities should never be forgotten. Absolutely horrible.
Japan forgot them in 1946
The actual war criminals were the Anglo-Saxons! alone because of the initiation and the financing of the two wars of annihilation and he essentially annihilation not only of the soldiers, even in prison! (e.g.) Rainwiesenlager even after the end of the war2!!!! and the bombing massacres on the civilian population without any military sense, just to mention the worst, Hiroshima and Nakasaki / Dresden, Hamvburg, Cologne,..... and hundreds of large cities without any military significance! Pure terror against civilians!!! ............ historians have proven that without the Versai shameful dictate and the war mongers.Churchil / war criminals and genocides might not have fought at all!?!?!
AND IN "UKRAINE" THE SAME CRIMINALS ARE AT WORK AGAIN AND DS DECADES BEFORE I VERY TENTATIVELY RESPONDED TO PUTIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now youtube wants everyone to forget it😶
Today Japan is one of the most polite and considered nations in the world .
Same with Denmark today compared with 1000 years ago.
Things change, grow up!
@@jacobjorgenson9285 What are you referring too? Was only in the last couple of decades that Japan finally admitted too and made reparation's to the victims. A lot more war criminals got away in Japan than in Germany. They even to this day have a shrine to a war criminal. Not saying current generation should have to hang their heads for what their for fathers did. But these are the facts.
My grandmother and her siblings were alive by this time. Her father (my great grandfather) dug a hole under the house to hide his children as their neighbors were waterboarded then hit in the stomach by bamboo and babies were tossed into the air and bayonetted.
My grandmother and her sisters cut their hair and made themselves ugly to disguise themselves to avoid being assaulted and the brothers were hidden to avoid being tortured for fun.
"Babies were tossed into air and bayonetted" 😱
Thank you for sharing their stories. May they all find peace ... somehow.
These women are possibly the strongest women of a war time generation. I knew a little about them and thank you for teaching more. I hope they are never forgotten.
Still today japanese men are like that
unfortunately they will be forgotten because Japan does not want to admit it committed such atrocities. Japanese youth are detached from the history of horrors their government intentially chose to surpress. The collective west would rather believe in fabrications of Uyghurs torture inorder to further their political ideology and continual surpression of what they consider to be an enemy.
Have you read a history book? Humans literally owned humans and could kill them if the wanted to.....
medieval women : are we a joke to you?
The Iraqis who lost 500,000 children to Americas invasions will never get an apology
I'm a CSA survivor... thanks for acknowledging that being unable to have kids (or issues on various parts along that path) can happen from more serious abuse. I likely cannot have kids due to this, it is horrible but I feel less like a freak now.
You're are strong! I hope you have a wonderful and fulfilling life even with the trauma you endured!
Youre not a freak for what someone else did to you, i hope you know that 💜 youre not a freak at all and im sorry you had to go through things so awful
I’m so sorry this happened to you. You are not a freak, you are alive, you are a survivor, and you are evidence that evil doesn’t win.
Take care dear, I wish you the very best of luck for your future ❤️
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Visited an old folk's home when I noticed some of female residents have a deep scare across their faces. Was told by a senior nurse that worked there that they were teens when the war broke out and to prevent them from being dragged off as comfort women, they sliced up their faces to look ugly.
This is extremely sad. However, I admire the courage of these women, doing what they did to avoid ending up as comfort women.
@@tirebiter1680 Talked to them and found out sadly due to their scars no man wanted to marry them, and they live alone till the govt deem them unfit and sent them to charity old folks' home to be cared for.
@@wumao6797 Wellll... I think I would like to be married to one if the rest of her looked really good and she would have a bag over her head when we did it.
@@tirebiter1680 Um. What? Not exactly the most tactful person, are you?
In Japan, Taiwan and Korea, the Japanese military threw the recruitment of comfort women to intermediaries, while in the rest of the world, they asked local influential people to recruit them. As shown in the US military's survey data, comfort women had a large income. That amount was about three times the salary of an army general at the time. Assuming that Japanese soldiers actually abducted women, would they pay them a salary so high that they could buy a house after just a few months of work? That is not possible.
This is the most horrendous and evil thing I have ever heard. I cannot imagine the pain, suffering,fear and panic the girls and women felt during this time. I don’t understand how someone can take someone else’s humanity like that. I pray the women that suffered through these horrors are resting in peace now. My daughter is 11 and I cannot fathom someone subjecting her to something like this. This is just evil, pure and simple.
Search up the Sonderkommando
Men and boys also experienced these same things dont exclude out or single out acknowledge it all or dont acknowledge anything at all
To this day Japanese students are taught practically nothing of Japan's role of brutal conquest during WWII.
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if a large portion of the populace think that two atomic bombs were dropped on them for no apparent reason.
So what your saying is that Japan is like america
@@j-son221 Oh, they know what they did. But they feign ignorance and even refuse to teach that history in school.
Do Americans and Europeans teach their children the atrocities they did during wars ??
@@ali.hassanmir American schools do, but other than the slave trade, and the conquest of the Indians, they tend to skim over it. The group who committed them are the people setting the curriculum after all.
I am German, and in my country the Nazi crimes are admitted, and waving Nazi symbols or denying Nazi crimes like the holocaust is punishable by law.
In its own interest, Japan should do the same. The Japan of today cannot be held responsible for the crimes committed during the war, as today's Germany is not responsible for the crimes committed by the Nazis. We must not forget history, in order not to allow these things to happen again.
Japanese will never admit what they did. cuz Japan, country built by war criminals after WW2.
Yes
But do u rly think they will admit that their country was at some point worst
If so, they would already done it
But Japan has never repented and apologized for their war crime and inhumane atrocities like Germany did. Even flat out denying the history, erasing history from their history book. How could the Asian countries who suffered those atrocities believe that today's Japanese people learned from the mistakes from their grandfather generations? How can we believe that they won't do it again?
I agree. I'm a Canadian who has lived in Japan over 15 years and it's amazing how little anyone knows about Japan's role in WW2.
Do you really think this stuff ain’t happening today?
This story should never die, should never be lost to history.
It already basically is, this stuff and worse gets overlooked by billions everyday and will continue. People aren't getting smarter bahahaha
It's sad because I saw a comment saying "get over it"...
Well, the woke crowd is trying to bury the history off ww2 and blame it on Caucasian people. They do not even study ww2 in many high schools. Ask a kid who was on the Axis powers in ww2, and they are likely to say George Washington as anything.
Thats why the commies want to destroy education and use it to make more hate and division. If people knew that Hitler really was a socialist first, and that is part of what nazi means, a lot less people would be impressed with it.
I notice that, since Musk bought Twitter, I don't have my comments censored.
Over the decades, the issue has been thoroughly investigated by numerous historians, who have separated fact from legend.
If you want to know the reality of the comfort women issue, we recommend you to read the following pages.
→ Comfort Women Contract ; Crackdown on Academic Freedom over Harvard Professor's Paper
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Reminds me of The Rape of Nanking. Before my grandfather passed away, he'd always talked about how lucky my grandmother was and how how brave she was as a little girl. The atrocity of history rings such blistering truths.
Having a teenage daughter, makes me imagine the voices of those young girls aged as young as 10 crying for days asking for a little mercy while being raped and beaten by several dozens of different guys from early morning to late at night inside my head. Those people are among the worst creature that ever lived..
I know, having a daughter will make you think, that's for sure.
@@BombsAwayMineCraft Even before I married I already concerned so much about this. But it's getting clearer when I have my own daughter now.
@@BombsAwayMineCraft it shouldn't take having a daughter to recognize discrimination and sexism and see women as people. what about the women you had that daughter with? nasty.
@@saigeskinner6535 are you dense or smth?
@@ahfez getting clearer how? What makes it clearer?
As a Filipina married to a Japanese man, this was one of the heaviest topics we discussed when we were dating. Thankfully, he studied in AUS for a second degree and his curiosity about ww2 made him aware of the brutalities Imperial Japan has done, including my country. He feels remorseful on what his ancestors and Japanese govt why the truth hasn't been told as it is to the current generation of Japanese. In my family, my great grand aunt was one of those comfort women, she was being lied to having a nice job elsewhere as opportunity to earn more but ended up being a comfort woman. She died due to illness while in the station, sadly.
My marriage with a Japanese man proves that there's forgiveness along the way from the atrocities but I hope the dark past should not be forgotten or diluted so that it won't ever happen again. And, I hope my great grand aunt would rest in peace for what she had endured.
EDIT: The salty comments are your own but this is me and my husband's resolution about the histories of our heritage. We didn't choose to be born as a Filipino and Japanese. We acknowledge the bitter past, bore some forgiveness in our personal lives and live life in our terms. We are going 6yrs and more in our marriage and no bitterness between us I hope these commenters also lead a fruitful life outside these inflammatory comments.
Oh it WILL most certainly happen again
Talk about Stockholm syndrome lmao.
Japanese don't change they will always be monsters behind their fake smile and fake hospitality, you became blinded by love and are now his new-generation comfort woman. Nice way to dishonor your dead relatives who fell victim to them.
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Tf u mean forgiveness he didn't even do anything
How many japanese generations need to apologize before you are satisfied?
Some things like this actually has happened in other areas of China all over as well. My grandma (born in 1927) saw some horrible things that happen during the 8 years after the Japanese took Peking (Beijing) in 1937. It was the first city the Japanese took after the war started due to the Marco Polo Bridge Incident.
My grandma had to have her hair cut and dress as a boy. She explained that the Japanese come in and ended up checking the houses and buildings, they took all the food and many items. Later on they actually even poisoned the local water. With no food and water the people there had to live off gathering rain water and trying to dig up wild potatoes and eating a special type of a part of a tree after boiling it.
Later on she witnessed the Japanese several times taking local women, teenage girls and even female children back to their camp/headquarters. She told me she never remembered seeing them come out atleast alive, but instead their bodies being wheeled out onthe back of a cart...
My grandma also eventually witnessed prisoners being brought in and tortured in the middle of the street. They made them sit down with guns pointed at them and eat rice with shaved peices of bamboo incide of it. It made them scream I'm pain she told me and beg for death. My grandma also saw others forced to drink the dirty poisoned water as much as they could until their belly couldn't take anymore. Then the Japanese would turn them over and stomp on their belly and the water would spray out. There were some other things, but I wouldn't go into that.
It's a bit surprising but even though my grandma went through all of this for over 8 years, and she herself was chased and attacked by a Japanese soldier and almost raped (but thankfuly escaped)... and never did see her real family every again, she told me she held no grudges against the Japanese at all when I talked to her. Infact her favorite electronic TV brand was Sony, and always said the Japanese were smart people. To her the war was over and she was free. She knew some people did things that were obviously horrible, but was not going to let that control how she views individuals.
Mu mother told me the Japanese would use the Chinese and Koreans to do human testing like what the Nazis did to the Jews. Did your grandmother ever mentioned that?
@@vkl0253 I don't actualy recall my grandmother ever mentioning to me anything like that happening (which I'm honestly thankful for). However, as I got older and did more research into the 2nd Sino-Japanese War/WW2 I eventualy learned about "Unite 731". It was part of the Japanese Imperial Army from the early 1930s through the end of WW2 that took prisoners and even civilians and used them as for live unspeakable biological warfare experiments.
Reading, watching videos and learning more about Unite 731 truly made me wonder how we humans could possibly go so far as to do such inhumane and horrific things. I'm very sorry if your mother or family member had to witness that or loose someone because of that.
Wow, what an amazingly strong person.
@@dmraven
Were the “some other things” 10x worst than what you’ve mentioned above?
The world should know about the “some other things” so this dark part of history is fully realised and never forgotten.
@@klau88873 My dude here wants to hear lurid details.
Outstanding reporting! Thank you for sharing the darkest side of war. May the victims find peace and those who carried out those unspeakable crimes receive the full measure of hell!!
Just unthinkable what horrendous crimes committed against these women. They should never be forgotten
Why don't you remember other more horrendous crimes committed against women? Justice for LAI DAI HAN.
@@keikotunoda426that’s the problem there are so many people pick and choose
It is sad when you can't even retell a truth without worrying you "might" hurt someones feelings. We NEED to hear the truth, sometimes, straight forward and bluntly.
It's not about hurting someones feelings it's about triggering trauma.
@@TrueSonOfWalhall dont watch this video then
@@TrueSonOfWalhall yeah those who did the raping sure were traumatized weren't they?
Well said and I agree with you
It is certainly important to know historical facts, but as far as this video is concerned, both the pictures used and the content are full of errors.
The very nerve of the Japanese to ask for the statues of the comfort women be taken away. The country is certainly rich enough to have paid compensation ten times over, in the past thirty or forty years.
My mom told me when she was in grade 4, she saw some grade 6 girls who showed early physical maturity were not coming to school and heard they were taken. I am a 60 yr old Korean. My mom is 91
Terrible
That's horrific, how is your mom doing? I can't imagine how she must've felt knowing she would never see those girls again.
Yes I'm married to a Filipina. For the last three years.. She has talked about her grandmother .. Hiding in the jungles of the Philippines to get away from the Japanese. And being forced to be a comfort woman.. Yes they lived out in the countryside away from the cities... Every time they heard a motor of a vehicle... All the women would run and hide in the jungle... with that children.. After the Americans invaded invaded the Philippines.. Is the local residents trusting for some reason... And would come out in the open.
It was the same story here in Malaysia where I live, little girls were forced by their parents to hide in the wood when their can hear Japanese trucks approaching.....
I talked with Japanese women who, while in college, was made to read "The Rape of Nanking". The surprising thing is that it was a Japanese college. She said she cried and was shocked. She asked if it was true. I said that and worse throughout Asia during the war. That was a deep as she would go but even that was a surprise to me. As a teacher, the War years are not taught at all to children. Only the Atomic bombs and how America was a brutal country for using them is taught. But that is for another video.
Historical facts about Nanjing can be seen in the following video
① Documentary film Nanking. 20 Feb 1938 戦線後方記録映画『南京』② 南京事件があったとされる期間の南京市内の様子
If you want to know the facts about the comfort women issue, the following pages will help.
① Comfort Women Contract ; Crackdown on Academic Freedom over Harvard Professor's Paper ② Comfort Women The North Korea Connection
This happened in Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia too. Ukrainian females in eastern Europe now. Plus children being taken to the US adoption by 'christian' charities. Western Military members are guilty too. War is ugly.
@@manaharukaze1666 mate - no one asked. that is not Michael's point.
check historical facts about atomic bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki. It wasn't real nuclear fusion bomb, it was just a bunch of tnts wrapped around in glad wrap.
If you want to know facts about bombing of japan, check out (How japan never surrended - atomic bomb was staged - by German historian Engela Merkel)
@@Josh-eu1vr If the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima were to be realised with TNT, 16,000 tonnes of TNT would be required.
The B-29 strategic bomber has a maximum bomb load of 9 tonnes.
@@Josh-eu1vr ignore him he’s all over this video trying to subtly imply that Japan never took in comfort women or that they did but it was only a small amounts
A key point that you skipped at 14:20 is that until the early 1990s JP denied, yes, denied, that comfort women ever existed. They denied it happened. I moved to JP in 1990 and the groundswell was gaining steam, I think around '91 or '92 the govt officially recognized that comfort women existed, but that they were volunteers. I watched a WWII history channel documentary many years later and a US patrol boat intercepted some Filipino fishing boats and they asked about Japanese navy craft, the Filipinos replied yes, they are around and they took all of their women. There was plenty of evidence regarding JP but, as you point, out, the women fought hard for recognition.
They know it, they just have great shame about it and would rather forget about it, and do better. When a small monument was erected in a nearby park to honor comfort women, the Japanese Consulate was horrified, and even angry. They have brought a huge amount of business to our state, so withdrawing their economic support would have had an unpleasant impact. It took a lot of discussion with our governor and others to apologize convince them to take no action.
@@sandraleigh4023
US GIs frequented Japan's 'comfort women' (AP) / China Daily 2007-04-26
_with tacit approval from the US occupation authorities - Japan set up a similar "comfort women" system for American GIs._
US government would be horrified to know the truth.
Is there anything that shows the Japanese straight out denied the existence of comfort women or just never mentioned it? (before 1992)
@@theweditor3612 Yes. go back and read the Japan Times from the 1980s and 1990. I was there. I read it.
@@davidcase1286 Japanese soldiers never forced women to become comfort women in Korea, and the Japanese government will never admit to that. Also, the source of the story is the numerous incidents that occurred in Japan and Korea after World War II and during the Korean War by U.S., British, and Korean forces. The story of UN soldiers and Korean soldiers abducting women and sending them to brothels during the Korean War was compiled in a report by an international NGO that was investigating war crimes during the Korean War at the time. There is also testimony that women were referred to as Type 5 supplies and were placed in drums and sent to the front lines.
The crimes that’s committed against females is crazy to me! We all have sisters, daughters, grandmothers and more importantly a MOTHER!!! So willingly and knowingly committed these types of crimes knowing you came from and go home to a woman is sickening
I agree but there is also a lot that happens to young boys especially in the Middle East *taliban*
The Japanese viewed the Chinese as inferior and frequently demonized them, which basically mirrors what the Nazis did.
@@Kingmadman-1afghanistan isnt exactly in the middle east
@@keri7031 it’s close though I understand it’s not but I hope you did get my point thanks for the correction
Its literally in asia. What u mean close .@@Kingmadman-1
May mankind learn from this dark period in history. Thank you for covering this very sensitive topic in this video.May these women find the peace they so deserved.
Naw, we haven't learned enough. Women and little girls still get trafficked even in the most civilized nations. It's why I never visit strip clubs or massage parlors, temping as it sometimes was.
Amen bruh 💯🙉🙈🙊
good luck with that
our history is as dark as dark gets all the way back to the beginning of recorded history
this is what we are.
in times of war we are at our worst.
and this is saying something considering we are pretty despicable to begin with.
War changed me. i don't think i'll ever be the same. Everyone that has gone into battle can relate to that.
@@MPlain The actions of these subhuman savages do not represent the great Human race
we can name the real monsters.
Adolf might make the top 5
When you have people like Stalin and Mao and then lets not forget Dr Mengele. Some of the Roman emperors would probably hit top 5.
Pretty frightening to think that Adolf and his atrocities might not even be a top 5 candidate for most despicable ever.
A part of history that was never taught in history class. I am learning this now at 65 years old and this brought a tear to my eye's, to think that a person can do this to another human being on such a large scale, this is right up there with the Holocaust. I hope these woman find peace when the pass on to the other side.
Check out Unit 731 and the Rape of Nanking.
They are all dead now.
They were able to do it BECAUSE it was on such a large scale. Your commanding officer is OK with it and then one guy in your group goes along with it and then another and another. Some people can justify literally anything if they see others do it before them. If it was a one off here and there, it's not likely to spread. That's the cruel irony of the human condition. I wonder how many of the Japanese soldiers went home after the war and later on had PTSD after it fully sunk in what they had done. People do a lot of dumb things when they are 20 years old that they're deeply ashamed of at 30. This would put that on an unimaginable level, and that would be even worse once you get married, and have a daughter of your own. I don't think anybody won in that situation in the very least.
All the history in schools is a lie x
The comfort women issue has been created by various legends since the 1980s, so it is not surprising that you did not know about it.
If you want to know more about who did it, I suggest you read the following article.
→ Comfort Women The North Korea Connection
I visited Auschwitz for the 1st time a few months ago. At one point in the tour, there are 100s of framed photos of prisoners hung in several rows of a long hallway. I began to get more and more curious as I looked at these poor souls and wondered why there were so many young men but, very few young women. I also noticed that although there were several pictures of healthy, nice looking men, most of the women pictured were not particularly healthy looking or traditionally attractive. My fears were confirmed by my tour guide after I asked her “I mean no disrespect but, is there a reason there is such a disparity in numbers between handsome young male victims versus pretty young female victims?”
She answered quietly “Yes. Many of the young ladies were forced into prostitution. Very few of them survived.”
I just can’t imagine how much pain and terror they all had to endure.
I am going to answer this, but the source I read was from many years ago - about 40 or more, and I do not remember it specifically. From this written report, the Nazis has a special "rape" camp for young girls and pretty women. They raped the f**k out of them, according to the report, and most died within weeks - they just kept filling the camp with new girls. As Germany began to fall, the order was supposedly given, that above all else, all evidence of this camp's existence needed to be destroyed. All the women were killed, and the camp was destroyed. The German high command did not care if the Allies found Auschwitz or other such camps; they feared what would happen to Germany if the Allies found this camp. This report came from the confession of many German soldiers who admitted its existence.
Prostit for Who. Not German’s under people were there to be killed not to mix filth with master race. Local’s also not likely needed low class comfort women.
Chimney Asap women and children , only able to work got some extra week’s to live and Die slave labour
you were in a work camp for men. woman were in factories making cloth and ammunition. she probably lied to you
That's so sad
Forced prostitution was absolutely real under Nazi rule. But most women in the concentration camps were made to work "regular jobs" while malnourished on purpose until they couldn't work anymore, at which point they were murdered. Just like the men.
Thank you. It's individuals like you who contribute to making the world a better place. I truly appreciate the subtle and delicate tone of this documentary.
Nothing will ever change if people don't stand up for eachother. And not the people far away from the problem. The people standing right next to the problem.
The actual war criminals were the Anglo-Saxons! alone because of the initiation and the financing of the two wars of annihilation and he essentially annihilation not only of the soldiers, even in prison! (e.g.) Rainwiesenlager even after the end of the war2!!!! and the bombing massacres on the civilian population without any military sense, just to mention the worst, Hiroshima and Nakasaki / Dresden, Hamvburg, Cologne,..... and hundreds of large cities without any military significance! Pure terror against civilians!!! ............ historians have proven that without the Versai shameful dictate and the war mongers.Churchil / war criminals and genocides might not have fought at all!?!?!
AND IN "UKRAINE" THE SAME CRIMINALS ARE AT WORK AGAIN AND DS DECADES BEFORE I VERY TENTATIVELY RESPONDED TO PUTIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May all those who suffered find lasting peace..... thank you for sharing and teaching the next generation to never forget and learn from this tragedy
What's going iñ Ukraine Syria is wórse now then it ever was
Korean parents lived in hell after their teenage daughters were kidnapped and raped everyday by enemy soldiers. All parents died not knowing what happened to their daughters. It's an ABSOLUTE INSULT to call them comfort women. They were/are rape victims.
Dude, you need to adjust your words. Every war is horrific.
@@justadutchman5169 agree... its happening now, it happened thousand years ago and its going to happen in the future too....
@Doroma just forget about it? are you off your rocker?!
Being a decendent from Dutch East Indies DEI (now Indonesia), my family had to endure the atrocities that the JAPanese imp army committed. My male family members were all interned in POW camps across E. Asia (Japan and Java/ Celebes/Sumatra/ Birma) and all female and children relatives were interned in camps in DEI.
At least 2 of my great-aunts were victims of being "comfort women". Neither was an adult (16-17 yo) and neither ever spoke of this. I only got to know 1, the other died from mental and physical problems. only now are these being recognized as being related to what she endured during the war, 45 years after her passing.
The JAPanese gov NEVER admitted their atrocities!! And my great-aunts, and all other family members, were always waiting for this apology! Not even the financial part, just an apology!!! Now that entire generation has passed away. Not 1 living family member who can tell the truth.
Thank you for sharing this to the world and to those that didnt know of this, or those that didnt want to know about this.
Maybe Chinese Soldiers joint in Japan Army
@@shetheyithe8894
Ever heard about the Rape of Nanking or the Rape of Manila.
@Doroma
Not surprise you, like the japanese gov't, wants us to forget their depraved brutality during WW II.
In 1994,Dutch government officially announced that
“Dutch government regards the Comfort women system primarily as prostitution.”
Like japan forgot about their original aboriginal black Japanese?
Germany: we are sincerely sorry about our war crimes.
Japan: What is war crime?
Japan: We will do it again if we got the power to
And the worst part of it all: Emperor Hirohito was the leader who was never held neither accountable nor responsible for the crimes committed against humanity! Sad world we live in!
Tojo controlled Japan during ww2 as “asian hitler”
@@marcusbrown188 Hirohito was not innocent for the crimes committed. He just got away because Truman and McCarthur wanted to be PC and make nice peace with Japan and get the Marshall plan going. But Hirohito ordered a lot of crimes against humanity acts. Hirohito, and some of his family, got away with it!
Poor women I can’t get my head around this 40 men every day for years absolutely terrible 😢
Most of them were kids. 17 in asian age is equivalent to 16 in the western world
I ve read and heard of brutalities throughout history... But this video shocked me due to the industrial scale of it all , sheer number of victims and the fact that this all happened less than 90 years ago... It makes you fear that with the ''right'' circumstances , these events could be repeated...
Thing is comfort women never quite stopped in Japan. The definition of it changed but its still exists nonetheless.
And it will continue to happen with any wat unfortunately
It is happening every today especialy during war as it draws mercenarys who can do what they like with no one to answer to
I suppose you have never heard of Jeffrey Epstein. He had an island dedicated to it
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My great-grandmother was a survivor of the japanese occupation in WWII. She was a teacher. From stories I heard from my other family members, (I never had the courage to ask her myself) it was genuienly traumatizing. Her school/classroom was burned down with students and teachers still in it. She watched her male students as they were killed in horrible ways (being used as target practice for the japanese soldiers, and she and her female students were raped and tortured, and most of the girls were killed afterwards. The ones who weren't were used, as mentioned in the video, comfort women. Please keep in mind that during this time, my great-grandmother was 26. Her students were between the ages of 10 and 12. These are children. Japan has never apologized for these horrendous warcrimes.
Those are not men! They are disguisting monsters!! May all those women rest in peace🙏
Old testament says the same as you do. Deuteronomy 20. But you never protest that Muslims do it all the time. You never protest Sharia law of Islam. Why? Nadia Murad and the thousands of harem girls traded by Muslims? Canada banned her from telling her story to protect Islam.
Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 484: - “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’”
Tabari 9:69 "Killing Unbelievers is a small matter to us" The words of Muhammad, prophet of Islam.
Sahih Bukhari (8:387) - Allah's Apostle said, "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah'. And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally."
@@RobTheFossil Islam must be kept off from the rest of the world.
@@cezarstefanseghjucanwhy? I like islam people
Shut up you whore
Obviously those were men. What were they, ghosts? 🙄 People like this walk amongst us.
I was in Korea in 1992 at a market and purchased a souvenir. It rang up less than the posted price. I asked the clerk why less? They said "Oh, that price is for Japanese". In Korea, the hatred towards Japan is obviously still strong.
It's about the one thing the Chinese and Koreans and Filippinos and Vietnamese and all the other South-East Asian countries can agree on, it's the fact that the Japanese attitude, trying to gaslight the entire world into thinking they didn't commit war crimes, is disgusting.
Since President Syngman Rhee, South Korea has been educating its people against Japan. As a result, those born after the war are more anti-Japanese than those who actually experienced Japanese rule. The following video may be of interest.
→ 韓国は日本をどのように思っているのかを考えたいと思います (You Tube)
Currently, anti-Japanese and anti-American education is actively promoted in South Korea by The Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union, which is strongly influenced by North Korea.
Some intelligent Koreans are beginning to realise that there is a discrepancy between the history they learnt in school and the historical facts in the process of researching actual history on the internet and making frequent trips to Japan. However, this will not be the majority in the future. It is by the nature of the Korean people discovered by Westerners who stayed in Korea over 100 years ago.
If you buy souvenirs from tourist attractions, they are sold at a higher price to Koreans as well as Japanese. You were lucky.
Hmm…You seem like you don't really know Korea. I wonder what made you post this very unlikely anecdote twice?? Why all the effort?
I can only repeat what the merchant told me in Seoul
I saw the documentary about comfort women and it caused me extreme upset. Women from all countries and over the world are often treated as if they are less than a dog not as important as anything else. I have learned a lot about history and I know a lot about WWII. Besides the war I’ve always thought Japan has always been a good country until I watched the documentary about Comfort Women.
I will never again have respect for a government that denies victims that they created and refuse to acknowledge. And that anger includes my own country. I have grown up with unforgiven rage for crimes done against innocent people because of their color, religion, and in general any excuse to downgrade another person.
It will never end until decent people do more than nothing to make a stand against and do not allow evil to grow.
Good people doing nothing are just victims waiting to be made. Find a cause and be a part of stopping it.
I think North Koreans have kidnapped a few Japanese people, in retaliation for what Japanese soldiers did to Korean women during the war.
I've heard about the comfort women, but I never knew Imperial Japan used Filipinas, Europeans, and even Japanese women too.
I also want to thank you for mentioning that most survivors aren't interested in compensation. Contrary to common belief, they're just tired of the Japanese government denying their existence. Even in cases where they were offered money, many of them refused it.
Some comfort women received compensation from the Japanese government. Some Korean comfort women did not receive it.
There was a political motive behind this, and there was peer pressure from those around me to not accept it. The political intention is to prolong this issue and force the Japanese government to make concessions.
The idea is to revise various treaties and agreements to gain advantage in trade and politics.
The other reason is to use the existence of comfort women to stir up national sentiment and divert attention from domestic issues.
Korean politicians have used comfort women to increase their approval ratings.
The Korean government has no intention of ending the various problems of the past. The Japanese government and Japanese people are opposing such plans by the Korean government.
Thank you for bringing this to light. One of the most atrocious acts against women, human beings, are still unknown to most around the world.
ww2, millions of guys die of torture, cold, starvation, and infection. Women most affected. I'm not suprised.
This is often talked here in Philippines if not casually. Comfort Women were taught to us in our Junior High School, and I'm also Half Japanese so I'm really shocked to know that my ancestors or even my my grandpa who fought in the war witnessed this and never talked about it. My mother's side in the family are something of a samurai class so I assumed that my grandpa fought in the war. He was stationed in Philippines and told me that he was in the Bataan Death March and witnessed the atrocities his brethren made. Tho he's not directly involved, I'm still really shocked and depressed on how brutal the Japanese were in my grandpas time. (He was 21 that time as well and he didn't tell me anymore details but he met this one Filipino named Frederico and he said his eyes were full of hatred but he had a duty to fulfill as well as they were both soldiers.)
Interesting, sad, and unknown history. Thank you. These precious women and what they went through. My heart hurts for them.
It even f*cked up so many lives in the aftermath.
Let me tell you a Dutch Indies true story. My aunt, oldest sister of my mother, was one of them. She “survived” because a Japanese officer, physician, “liked” her for himself. When my grandfather was released from Japanese imprisonment barely alive, he was told he had a grandchild who was now in an orphanage and that if he wanted to save his granddaugther that he should adoped her before she would be sold. My aunt never really recovered and my grandfather never saw his firstborn daughter back. I guess she could never look him in the eyes again. The remaining surviving children, my mother being one of them, all are warvictims, like many of that generation. Right after WW2 the Indonesian revolution, in the former Dutch Indies, followed. My uncle second oldest was brutale taken from home and murdered by these “independent warriors” for libaration of the now new nation of Indonesia. In 1958 my mother arrived here in the Netherlands where nobody wanted to hear about a new warvictim story. To many had there own. My mother grew-up in a warzone for almost her whole childhood of almost 18yrs. But when she hit her toe, she would curse followed by another horrific anecdote but never chronologic. Many years later I had a pretty good idea how her childhood was where as a child death was accepted as one off the earliest thoughts. In all the few suriving photographs of her childhood she never smiled ones. Although a pretty little girl with thick straight black hair and pearly white skin as she is an “Indo”, a halfbreed of European mixed with locals. Here father was a French man. Now she is 82 and has Altzheimer what maybe a blessing is for her, not remembering every horrific event she survived. She and the other barely spoke about It. Nobody wants to hear a sad true story. Only succesfull stories, even if they are romantisized.
Not only the Japanese did horrific things but also the Indonesian militias during the Indonesian Revolution where whole Dutch families where rapped, mudered or otherwise butchered. Thats a true story for you.
nothing new... rapes were and are common currency in any war... one of the many atrocities, germans and soviet did the same to each other....
Fahnestock!
UA-cam unit 731
My Grandma (is now deceased), had also witnessed the horrors of what the Japanese soldiers does to the women, and girls in Philippines. This documentation is very accurate to what my Grandma tells us, her mother always used to hide her in mud when she was just a kid when they hear the Japanese marching near their way. My Grandma also saw how the Japanese kills the babies, they throw them up, and catch them with bayonets. The worst one she saw was the time when she saw a girl gets r*ped, violated, tortured, and killed by putting things inside of the girl's private. My Grandma's mom wasn't also very fortunate... because she told us when her mom, again hid her under mud. Her mom unfortunately got caught and never seen again.
It takes a lot of bravery for my Grandma to tell us the horrors of what she experienced. And i admired her for that. Rest in Peace Grandma, i wished that you and your Mom have finally got that final embrace you always wished you took before she disappeared.
Thank you for this video. The horrors of war, just never cease to amaze me. These poor women , nothing would be enough to have compensated them after the war ended.
Check out Unit 731
Such a painful story. I really feel for these women. The one who became afraid of men after the ordeal really got to me
Ladies and gentlemen, this is humanity in its darkest form.
It was possibly the worst atrocity of modern history, worse than both the Soviets and the Nazis !
@@joycechuah6398 1930s-1940s was one of the shittiest times for humanity in general
@@joycechuah6398 among the worst yes, but not the worst.
@@eugenecbell yep, in the medieval ages there are similar events and we have no ways to know if there are even harsher acts than what is shown in WW2, but one thing for sure is that there are more barbaric human acts way way past before the guns were created, proof to that are those torture tools from medieval eras, and those are just tools. And there's the Mongols too.
Then it's no longer humanity :-y
My Grammy was taken from Poland by the Na2is to the forced labor camps. My great grandmother hid her under the floorboards as long as she could. The stories are beyond thinkable, she gave many interviews over the years about what happened. People were routinely unalived in front of her, many more simply couldn’t survive the torture, starvation and inhuman conditions. War is hell. Whatever side you’re on, everyone suffers, often for idiotic reasons.
Cant you say killed?
@@romaboo6218 The UA-cam ghouls will delete comments with that word, it’s getting ridiculous.😑
@@romaboo6218 Not OP's fault, UA-cam is becoming more and more stupider with their censorship as time goes on.
I worked at a company years ago that hired in a young lady that was Japanese and I struck up a conversation with her about her life over there. This is not to lambast the people over there I have no axe to grind or anything like that. She loves it over here in the United States, Men over here are more polite than over there and she loved to be treated with dignity and respect. Over there she said Men treated her more like property than a Woman and she said she hoped she would never have to go back. She already had her green card and was proud to be an American Citizen, She had a Boyfriend that was getting ready to be married to and she was looking for a long life in the US. That was 15 plus years ago and I hope she is doing well.
The Pacific Theater of Operation during WWII was absolutely brutal.
Die eigendlichen Kriegsverbrecher waren die angelsachse ! allein wegen der anzettelung und der finanzirung der beiden Vernictungs kriege und er im wesenlichen Vernichtung nich nur der Soldateh,selbst in gefangenachaft! ( z.B.) Rainwiesenlager selbstnach dem Kriegsend2!!!! und den bomben Masackern an der zivielbevölkerung ohne jeden millitärischen sinn nur um die schlimmsten zu erwehnen, Hiroschima und Nakasaki / Dresden, Hamvurg, Köln,..... und hunderte große Stäte mehr ohne militärische Bedeutung! Reiner terror gegen Zivilisten!!! ............ historiker haben nchgewiesen das es ohne dasVersaier Schand- diktat und den den Krigstreiber.Churchil / kriegsverbrecher un Völkermörder vielleich gar-nicht zum krig gekommen wehre!?!?!
UND IN DER "UKRAINE" SIND DIE GLEICHEN VERBRECHER WIEDER AM WIRKEN UND DS SCHON JAHRZENTE BEVOR ICH PUTIN SEHR ZAGHAFT ZUR WEHRSETZTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What the Nazis did in Europe was truly inexcusable and one of the worst tragedies in human history. Then I learned about The Japanese and the things they did in The Pacific Theater. Wow, whole other level of raw brutality and sadism!
@@liamh1015 a good mach. I don't know but in terms of atrocity humans can reach levels of bestiality hard to predict. Mao did 40/50 millions of victims, Pol pot killed 1 evry 5 in cambodja. Nazi did experiments on kids to check after how many punch in the head ususlly people die, woman. they did shooting gallery with 5 years old kids excaping from them, Soviet army in berlin raped sistematically all womans between 3 and 80 and the most of times after they shooted them. Tito made common graves where it killed more then 10.000 italians living where untill before the war was italy. several are still there attached with metal wire, dropped alive.. Pinochet was used to throw oppositors on the open sea.. more then 3000 and 30.000 tortured, the list is pretty long.
@@mrmetalzeb4596 Fair point, but when I was in school history class they mostly covered the atrocities of The Nazis and USSR. It wasn't till college that I learned about the crimes against humanity committed by Japan like Unit 731 (truly evil and sadistic scientists who give Dr.Mengele a run for his money) and The Rape of Nanking, where The Japanese soldiers brutally raped and slaughtered EVERYTHING in their path. It really was a shock to learn about the pacific theater after only learning about The Holocaust in school.
It amazes me how Japanese play the victim to this day
And traits do not change, so if these so-called "victims", if got into power again, they'll break their previous records
I'm from Philippines and my great grandpa has a sister during the world war 2 who have been abducted by japanese soldiers and used as a comfort woman for months. She was brought back to their home after that but she's not the same, what I heard from my grandparents when I was a child is that she looks like she became insane after months of torture, r*pe, and starvation and doesn't want to talk nor interact with other people and even on her family 😔 they also said that she only lived 2 months after it😔 very sad 😢
As a Filipino who was stationed in Japan in the air force who dated Japanese women upset my grandparents who lived the events of Japanese invasion. My grandfather was a Philippine ARMY veteran whose seen many of his friends shot and beheaded, while my grandmother forced herself and siblings to hide amongst the rice fields eating rats to survive to evade capture of becoming comfort women. I told my grandfather that I'm doing an invasion of a different kind in Japan.
invade with your seed, fertilize their soil, have them pass on your genes LOL
@@pierreshi6102 it's the best revenge I supposed lol
Sounds like you don't respect women either.
You say this as if they wouldn't leave you for a blond european tourist in a heartbeat, SEAmonkey
I just hope she leaves you. She is a Japanese yes, but she didn't commit those war crimes against you or your family.
This is heartbreaking i actually felt sick. Well done for taking on such a despicable subject. I know it happened in Germany too.
How utterly sad! My heart aches for all those women!!!
I knew little bit of the subject from watching some of the Korean UA-camr I watch, but I feel that you did one of the best explanation of this horrible situation. I was not aware of Japanese, Filipino or even European I only thought it was Korean and the Chinese woman. thank you
If you are interested in women suffering storied during war , Lai Dai Han is the most painful situation.
This dark period in japan’s history is horrendous, and seems to have been all throughout its imperialist past. But unlike the Germans it seems Japan still tries to downplay and diminish their horrific crimes
My late father fought in World War II at Guadalcanal and was awarded the Bronze Star for Valor.
Without any explanation or elaboration, my father would openly express his hatred and disgust for the Japanese people.
I doubt if there are many people out there, who realize how barbaric Japanese were to their enemies during World War II! The rape of Nanking was the worst example of how animalistic, how cruel these Japanese soldiers were!
The unspeakable horrors of Unit 731 has been ignored in the west
During the pandemic I needed to get a visa to visit Japan. There is a Comfort Woman memorial statue without walking distance of the Japanese consulate in San Francisco. I visited and spent a few moment in silence and solidarity for those poor souls and their surviving families. Never again.
My Girlfriend is Korean and I didn’t really know of this till it came up one day and I’ve just been learning about it. Wow humans are the worst. My heart goes out to all those poor women.
The actions of these subhuman savages do not represent the glorious Human race
You don't see anything. That is some worse more than others. You have a girlfriend, you need to stop research about it. Your GF doesn't like about those like I used to be when I told my mom everything I knew
The literacy rate in Korea in 1945 was close to 50%. If, as Koreans claim, Japanese soldiers abducted 100,000-200,000 women in Korea, the comment sections of these videos would be filled with historical documents that prove it. What Korean positivist historians found in their long research were various historical documents that disproved the legend. In the first place, the average Korean would have been in an uproar immediately after the war if such a thing had actually happened. Rather, they would have rioted even during the war. Currently, there is a conflict in South Korea between those who have learned about the reality of the comfort women issue and those who still believe in the legend.
Know the history, or be ready to repeat it.
@Doroma forget history? No thats just dumb we would never forget what the nazis did why forget what the Japanese did ?
Humans are a strange lot - capable of the deepest compassion and the most gruesome horrifying sadistic acts imaginable…
Demons are among us
@@daveman5860 🙄
@@kristiskinner8542 🤖🐣🤖
@@daveman5860 we are related to Apes, if you think we are bad do some research on chimpanzees.
Satan from Mark Twain does have a point that humans were barbaric creatures. But it was his fault that humanity was like this.
I never understood why my Korean mom disliked the Japanese so much
I think this gives a pretty good explanation...
I was actually a projectionist playing films during a local festival at my alma mater back in the mid-2000's as my first part-time job, and one of them was a documentary explaining how the Japanese sex slavery trade in WWII was largely if not wholly responsible for financing Imperial Japanese military operations during the Pacific Theater. Not only comfort women, but even boys were also kidnapped and made sex slaves.
I find that hard to believe that this nightmarish hell could finance Japan's military ambitions/atrocities.
thank you for putting this together
As a korean woman I have personal family that have suffered from this.
Peace and blessings to their souls ❤
This is so Heartbreaking and Terrifying. May this Never happen again in any parts of the world.
Muslims do it all the time and you never protest. Why? Nadia Murad and the thousands of harem girls traded by Muslims? Canada banned her from telling her story to protect Islam.
Tabari 9:69 "Killing Unbelievers is a small matter to us" The words of Muhammad, prophet of Islam.
Sahih Bukhari (8:387) - Allah's Apostle said, "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah'. And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally."
@@RobTheFossil yawnn 🥱 this is boring. Who's gonna read the whole drama.
Oh my god. Thank for making at least two or more vids about this topic
Not only should the statuary NOT be removed, but it should also be increased in size and scope. Large plaques in multiple languages should explain the purpose of the statuary, and that Imperial Japan still pretends that it didn't really do this. That it was a few isolated incidents carried out by "mostly foreign conscripts" not actual Japanese soldiers.
Japan still "tries" to deny its crimes in chemical and biological warfare conducted largely in China.
There were many atrocities committed during WWII, but Japan is definitely in the top ranks of barbarity!
Just that not nobody really cares about the past. If they say yes or no makes no difference whatever. And it will not matter to anyone in 100 Years from now.
It might be Chinese joint in Japanese Army.
@@shetheyithe8894 Koreans and Taiwanese (then serving in the Japanese army as Japanese) existed, but there were no Chinese Japanese troops.
My objection is as stated in other comments.
@@sata5sato641 This is what I want to talk
I have been to multiple war museums in Japan and I couldn’t believe how they left out all the atrocities that occurred pre 1943, they really only focus on how they got nuked
The like to play the victim. I should know I'm part Japanese.
Now you know why MacArthur had that S.O.B. bow to him at the end. What animals...
I would like to hear this same story told from the perspective of the Japanese men. Instead of passive voice, "they were raped," "they were beaten." they were forced," I would like you linguistically put the responsibility and accountability where it belongs by using an active voice. This behavior will not change until we name, count, and describe the perpetrators and what they did. Describing the victims will never change anything.
How many Japanese men raped the comfort women? Which officials were involved? How did the men organize something like this and how heinous is it that men in power use human lives like this. Instead of saying, "they were denied access to medical care," please say, "the soldiers/commanders/field officers/medical personnel refused to treat them and left them on the streets to die." Instead of saying "they died of hemorrhage," please say, "the soldiers literally raped them to death." Please. Tell the truth. Put the story where it belongs; on the heads and names and actions of the men who did this.
Applause to *A Day in History* and anyone who gave that first step in watching the video, learning and accepting that such cruelty occurred to women on both sides during wars, rather than ignoring it because, to them, it is "too sensitive."
Thank you for spreading the knowledge.
Thank you for making this public. I think it 's a good think to show some of the harsh aspects of reality so that we can prevent repeating our mistakes from history. Respect!
After WW2 Koreans have been repeating , So Lai Dai Hans demanded apology .
As a Japanese, I am already ashamed by the fact that they never taught me about this in school. and I could never imagine how many people I did hurt because of my mere ignorance.
One thing I can respect about my own ancestor is, None of men in my bloodline went to the war. It is a well-known history in my household. They either made up persuasive reasons to not join them or Studied hard and got jobs that would make them in a position of ' too important to let them join the war' Because they knew something was off. This will not help any victims in any way, But I could never ever be proud of anything more than that.
dont be shAme yoUng man.
Japan fought for Asia against western europe white people at the time. western people colonize Asia for 3~400 years. And Japan came and help All Asia. Howevr they lost the war. we didnt call wW2 . we were used to call big Asian war.
大東亜戦争。
@@kazzBRetard. "Defending" asia by genociding millions of chinese, koreans, vietnamese, burmese and stealing their natural resources.
Japan Conquered Asia and was allied with Germany @@kazzB
@@kazzBNah those guys were sick beyond hell and anyone trying to justify that needs to leave Earth Server.
@@dice5709 Dont laern fake ccp history Please. Do u know where this commi came from?
Well put together. Tough topic to address. Well done and informative.
Now we can see why there is major animosity towards Japanese from Koreans! It’s not something that can be forgotten easily !!!
Let alone China
@@theoldschoolconnoisseur2991 Keep your nose out of this, who says anything about China ?
@CLIFFORD DANG you don't think the Japanese never did the same thing in China?
I'm pretty sure the Japanese killed more civilians then the Germans did but was never taught or really spoken of . Look into it and get back to me
@@theoldschoolconnoisseur2991 oh, trust me, I know all too well about that. The Nanking massacre will always be the worst crime against humanity.!
@@clifforddang5947 ☮️🤝☮️
Thank you for making this video. Those Japanese who don't admit their soliders raped comfort women from China, Korea or any other Asia countries will never realize how horrible and sad the history was until the raping thing happens to their mother, sisiter, daughter or even grandma. My kids, grandkids, greatgrandkids...will never forget the brutal crimes Japanese committed.
Wow! I had never heard of this. So freaking tragic what these women went through. War is when men can not control their anger and rage at each other. Sometimes valid, most of the time not. In all circumstance, it's the innocents that pay the highest price.
It's absolutely horrific what one human being is albe to do to another whether during war or not. I'm amazed by all the WW11 veterans I have had the greatest pleasure meeting before passing on and saying thank you! For you and your families service and sacrifice for my freedom. But what got me truthfully is how happy and thankful that they were that they got to meet me.
You sees 95% of us probably wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the Greatest Generation to have had done absolutely whatever had to be done to, witness to and had happened to themselves the horrors of having to do to another human being they where brought up believing to help thy neighbor, stranger or basically fellow human being. Then never talk about it so they didn't expose that amount of hatred a man can be apon there families till later in their life. My oldest uncle a WW11 veteran always had a smile and a little gleam in his eye telling us kids about the war during the holidays get togethers how they perfected the piano wire across a road just high enough to take the head off the German half track comanders standing up driving by them all hell would break loose.
And now it's looking like it might happen again to another generation around the world. Absolutely terrible to think about let alone experience it. 🦅🇺🇸
LOL, US UK French and allied soldiers did commit war crimes rapes and other atrocities too.... war devil´s playroom
"" if it wasn't for the Greatest Generation"" = ww2,Cold War.
WW11?
So what happened in WW3
Greatest Generation. Yeah, you might be right
My dad NEVER spoke about the Korean conflict!
It's incredibly sad what these young woman had to endure. It brings tears to my heart. I hope this will never happen again in our world.
Bro I just wanted to learn about Japan in wwii and this is the first thing that came up 😭
I guess God just revealed to you the no 1 truth about them during the war
This makes me think about the easyness many people today talk about making war. It is as if for them it seems to be a kind of video game. It seems as if they are unfit to understand the real horror of war.
Politicians with their lust for power exploit this.
In EVERY war on EVERY side there are these kind of athrocities.
What sickens me isn't the endless stream of atrocities humanity seems to create but rather the fact any and every circumstance could potentially be real and even more so already occurred just unknown to history
it's all so heart-breaking. i'm glad for channels like this and i think more history should be taught in schools. humans should never forget their barbaric pasts....
I was told that my great-grandfather fought in ww2 against the Japanese. He recalled his best friend on how he was tied up and beaten as he watched his wife get brutally raped by the Japanese, she committed suicide shortly after. My great-grandfather was displeased when he heard that the war has ended, stating that he hasn't killed enough Japanese.
These poor women, they deserve justice! Please, Japan...DO THE RIGHT THING!!!!
I read the title, and I still was not prepared. No nation is free of sin. We must all do better together.
A masterpiece bruvva! A masterpiece thanks a million! That’s whywe study hard to show the world our (human being) past and never ever repeat that ever again! NEVER AGAIN!
My grandma, a Taiwanese living during Japanese occupation period, told mom that the Japanese government would sometimes look for nurses for the army, but secretly the girls all knew that it were for the comfort women.
People don’t change, I’m afraid, your sincere wish at the end, will be in vain…