2017年7月5日。
慰安婦問題をめぐるクマラスワミ報告について、その根拠となった文献の信頼性や事実誤認を検証し、国連人権理事会による再調査と、新たな特別報告者の日本派遣を求めた発言を記録する。July 5, 2017.
This article records a speech calling for a reexamination of the Coomaraswamy Report on the comfort women issue, questioning the reliability of sources used in its preparation and urging the UN Human Rights Council to conduct a new investigation through a Special Rapporteur.

The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
When the Left calls, a Special Rapporteur comes.
Our group will present more detailed research and findings in the future, but in this speech, I strongly called for a reexamination of the Coomaraswamy Report in the following words:
“When we closely examine the book that served as one of the foundations of the Coomaraswamy Report—George Hicks’s book—we find seventy-four references.
When we examine those references, thirty-two of them are sources of low informational reliability, and there are more than two hundred instances of factual error or misidentification.
Some of the references even include manga.
It is a serious problem that Ms. Coomaraswamy conducted her investigation on the basis of literature that included North Korean propaganda, unreliable material, and even manga, and used such sources in dealing with the comfort women issue.
The comfort women issue only began to be investigated extensively in 1991, and research on the issue was still insufficient in 1996, when the Coomaraswamy Report was issued.
Today, far more literature and documentary material are available than at that time, and many more interviews and investigations have been conducted in Japan with greater accuracy.
For this reason, we believe that the UN Human Rights Council should conduct a new investigation.
We hope that further investigation will contribute to improving the human rights situation in Japan.
Specifically, we strongly urge the UN Human Rights Council to send a Special Rapporteur to Japan once again to investigate the comfort women issue and to conduct more thorough interviews and documentary research.”
At the Human Rights Council, speakers are given only one and a half minutes to make their statements in English.
That is a considerable challenge, but I believe I was able to say what needed to be said.
This draft continues.