Hvis nogen i deres inderste inde stadig skulle være i tvivl om, hvorvidt den kejserlige japanske hær under Anden Verdenskrig var indblandet i organiseringen af de såkaldte “trøstekvinder”, unge kvinder fra Korea, Kina og andre lande, som blev tvunget til at prostituere sig for de japanske soldater ved fronten, så se her.
Min dygtige irske Tokyo-kollega, den allestedsnærværende David McNeill, har lavet dette her korte, men markante interview med en 92-årig tidligere japansk soldat, som fortæller, at han så det med sine egne øjne.
David skriver på engelsk om sin lille video (der er på japansk):
I interviewed this man, Masayoshi Matsumoto, today. Matsumoto-san is a remarkably healthy and lucid 92. As a medical orderly with the Japanese Imperial Army in wartime China, his job was to inspect “comfort women” in military brothels for venereal diseases. He saw women rounded up at gunpoint and brought to the brothels. Conservatives in Japan say the women were prostitutes who serviced troops willingly. In this clip, he dismisses such claims, calling the people who make them, ‘liars.’ Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has asked a panel of historians to look into the testimony of the “comfort women.” Why doesn’t the panel talk to former soldiers such as Matsumoto-san, before they are all gone?