IV)Questions about Testimonies of Former Comfort Women.
Mr. Ken'ichi Takagi, a lawyer who is in charge of comfort women's lawsuit, told that Professor Fujioka tried to find faults with comfort women's testimonies and make all of their testimonies not existed.

Takagi tried to say that Professor Fujioka deny comfort women's existence.

However, Professor Fujioka just insists, "Juugun Ianfu" (Comfort Women in Japanese) is not correct word because "Juugun" meant Army civilian employees, but comfort women were not. Fujioka was labeled as an extreme historical revisionist such as Neo-Nazis by the supporters of comfort women's lawsuit, especially Asahi newspaper. However, Fujioka is never an extreme historical revisionist such as Neo-Nazis.

Some supporters of comfort women's lawsuit are extreme anti-U.S. activists and feminists. Yuuko Suzuki, a researcher about comfort women, insists U.S. government must compensate for the raped Okinawan women by U.S. soldiers as well as Japanese government must compensate for former comfort women who were abducted and deceived. Yoshimi insists the words of "prostitute" and "Geisha" should be changed into other words, such as "women are suffered from sexual exploitation."

It is very important to testify whether former comfort women's testimonies are reliable or not if they would be compensated by the Japanese government. Typical former comfort women's testimonies will be examined in this chapter.

Typical Case A
"My mother heard the rumor that young girls were taken by soldiers on March 1938, when I was 16 years old. While I was working in the field, my mother came and she said to me, "Soldiers would come, run away my sister's house immediately." I run away for an hour by walk, but I was caught by a military policeman and six soldiers at a mountain path. Then I was taken to Ootesan, in the Northern-China."

First of all, Japanese government did not have any reason to abduct women from Korea, Taiwan, and the other Asian countries systematically.

Mr. Naozaburou Okabe, the chief staff of Army in the Northern-China area, issued a notice. According to some information the cause of serious anti-Japan emotion. . . rape crimes by Japanese soldiers were generally spread . . . Army must strictly regulate individual soldiers' activities, and immediately prepare for sexual comfort facilities, and avoid soldiers violating regulations because of no sexual comfort facilities.

Rape crimes by Japanese soldiers occured frequently in occupied area, and those crimes became urgent problems. If the Army abducted native women, the establishment of comfort stations would be meaningless. They are established to avoid anti-Japan's emotion by Japanese soldiers' rape crimes.

If Japanese Army abducted Korean and Taiwanese women, residents in Korea and Taiwan would cause big riots because of anti-Japan's emotion. Large riots would become a big problem. According to "History of Japanese Military Police" by Zenkoku Kenyuu-kai Rengou-kai, there were 2,600 millions people in Korea compared to only about 23,000 policemen and 1,927 military policemen (1945). Soviet supported Korean Communist guerilla (Kim Il Sung's Communist guerilla) might have intervene Korea if the riots were caused. Soviet might have handed over weapons to the residents who caused riots through Korean Communist guerilla.

If Japanese Army abducted Korean women, riots would have happened. Most Korean would have serious anti-Japan's emotion and become independence activists, even though few Koreans were activists for independence, and most Korean obeyed Japanese government. Once Korean residents caused riots, a big defense problem would be raised. Japanese Army's abduction of women would promote Soviet's threat and Communism.

Moreover, as the number of military police in Korea was small, the military police did not have enough time to abduct the Korean women. In addition, former Japanese military policemen testified they did not abduct the Korean women at all.

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