Conclusion
Japanese Army and government are not guilty. Japanese government was not legally responsibile for comfort women who were abducted or deceived by bad pimps. Japanese soldiers and brothel's dealers who slipped the laws and regulations were legally responsible for their crimes.
Japanese Army supervised, controlled and regulated brothels by notices and regulations systematically. Even if laws were enacted, some bad pimps slipped the laws. When a few women had been killed, the police would investigated the murders. Are the police legally responsible for those women who were killed?
Moreover, even if Japanese Army and government were guilty, those crimes were committed more than 50 years ago. From a viewpoint of prescription, the problem of comfort women has been settled. Is the problem of comfort women "the crime to humanity"? It would only transcend the statue of limitations among war crime.
Article, Nnurnburg Court Regulations, Chapter C, Article C described "the crime to humanity," Murder, extermination, slaveizing, expulsion, and other inhuman action to all private citizen in prewar and wartime whether the crime is guilty in the domestic laws or not, persecution based on political, racial, and religious reason.
Must Japanse government compensate for former comfort women who were abducted and forced into prostitution by brothel's dealers? Who made comfort women slaves, treated them inhumanly, and persecuted to the comfort women? Japanese government and Army did not abduct Asian women and force them into prostitution. Japanese Army and government were not guilty because they protected comfort women effectively.
Moreover, a lot of Japanese women worked at comfort houses with other Asian women. Japanese government and Army must have protected comfort women by military authorities' orders. They actually seemed to protect human rights of most comfort women. Above all, Japanese government and Army had no political, racical, and religious reasons to force comfort women into prostitution.
However, Japanese government may be morally responsible for the abducted or deceived women by some bad pimps, just as the United States of America was morally responsible for the cases of a lot of sexual outrages and rapes comitted by American soldiers in Okinawa under America's occupation. If Japan did not approve the system of prostitution at that time or the American Armed forces were not stationed in Okinawa, no victims would exist at all.
Prime Minister Ryuutarou Hashimoto sent letters that Japanese government severely felt moral obligation to the comfort women who were deceived and abducted, and demanded apologies of Japanese government. Japanese government seemed to have apologized comfort women who were abducted and forced into prostitution.
However, only the fact decides whether Japanese government has already apologized to them or not. Victims cannot decide whether they were compensated or not.
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