But when one looks at the Anglophone press, those who have brought up the comfort women issue and kept it in the news have been primarily Americans with no personal ethnic or historical connection to the comfort women and no connection to any country from which they were recruited.
Although some assert that they are not anti-Japanese and claim that the real issue is violence against women, their single-minded focus on Japan is hard to explain in terms other than anti-Japanese sentiment that extends to contemporary Japanese with no connection to the wartime system. European nations get exonerated; the Japanese, even those Japanese who were born decades after the end of the comfort women system, are forever tainted.
That both France and Germany had prostitute corps that served their military is known, but only at the footnote level. That American GIs made use of a post-war extension of the comfort women system has been documented by historians, such as John Dower and Yuki Tanaka, but almost never figures in English-language journalism about this issue.
The Korean literary scholar Park Yuha and the Korean-American anthropologist C. Sarah Soh have produced thoroughly documented works that describe the comfort women system in terms quite different from the usual description appearing in the English-language press. However, they have been almost totally ignored by the scores of journalists and pundits who have written on this issue.
A recent South Korean court ruling that the government had used coercion on women serving American GIs in the so-called camp towns that provide sexual services for American troops in Korea received scant attention. 0637名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。2021/10/30(土) 21:56:52.13ID:TdTahPHn [Speaking Out] The Fog of Postwar https://japan-forward.com/speaking-out-the-fog-of-postwar/0638名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。2021/11/05(金) 23:13:48.45ID:dG2wHorF 「慰安婦」はみな合意契約していた (WAC BUNKO 346) 新書 - 2021/7/30 有馬 哲夫 (著) https://www.ama▼zon.co.jp/dp/4898318460
