This text argues that actors involved in spreading the “sex slaves” framing in the comfort women issue may now be extending their reach to Japan’s AV coercion controversy, potentially leading to UN-level accusations that “AV actresses are modern sex slaves.” It links this to UN statements on compensated dating, the role of international human-rights NGOs, and how Japan’s adult content shapes overseas perceptions.

Kazuko Ito is one of the lawyers who spread the term “sex slaves” worldwide in connection with the comfort women issue.
2016-11-29.
The facts below are also facts that people who subscribe to the Asahi Shimbun and the like, and who spend their time watching programs from television stations that are their subsidiaries, will never be told, for all time.
All in-text emphasis other than the headline is mine.
That NGO pursuing the comfort women issue reaches out to the AV coercion problem.
A day may come when “AV actresses = modern sex slaves” is condemned at the United Nations.
[Nadeshiko Report by Mio Sugita].
The other day, I spoke about the United Nations and the comfort women issue at a study meeting for entrepreneurs and salaried workers.
During the Q&A, a man working in the entertainment industry made the following remark.
“I think this may also be related to the comfort women issue and the United Nations.
It’s the case of coercion to appear in AV that is in the news now.”
To summarize what he said, it is as follows.
A woman who had debts begged, saying, “Please, I really want you to let me appear in AV,” and became an AV actress.
Even at the filming site, she begged the staff, saying, “Please have me again next time,” “Thank you,” and in the end appeared in about 200 works.
The woman repaid her debts and retired, but when the man she started dating found out about her past AV appearances, the words that came out in the moment were, “I was forced and coerced to appear.”
Taking those words at face value, her boyfriend asked a so-called human-rights lawyer to act as his representative.
In the end, the woman filed a criminal complaint against the AV production company and others, and also filed a civil lawsuit.
However, staff members who knew the woman well are said to be tilting their heads, wondering, “Why is she suing?”
I do not know whether everything the man said is true.
The woman gives a completely different explanation, such as, “I was deceived and forced into AV filming.”
However, the phrase “human-rights lawyer” caught my attention, so I asked, “Could that lawyer possibly be attorney Kazuko Ito, the Secretary-General of the international human-rights NGO Human Rights Now?” and he replied, “Yes.”
“Aha,” I thought, convinced.
Kazuko Ito is one of the lawyers who spread the term “sex slaves” worldwide in connection with the comfort women issue.
I myself have met her several times at the UN headquarters in New York and at the UN Office at Geneva (the UN’s European headquarters).
In late October last year, UN Special Rapporteur Maud de Boer-Buquicchio stated at a press conference, without any basis, that “30% of Japanese female students (later corrected to 13%) engage in compensated dating.”
The Japanese government protested, saying that “the sources and basis of the figures should be disclosed,” and demanded a retraction and the preparation of a report based on objective data, and Ito is also regarded as the one who may have fed this information.
She is said to be the successor to attorney Yoko Hayashi, who serves as chair of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Meanwhile, I received the following letter from a woman living in the United States.
“Recently, I was concerned that the lawyers and organizations appearing in Japan’s AV coercion issue were the same people who handle the comfort women issue, and wondered if there was something behind it.
Japan is already being watched by the United States and the United Nations over child pornography and the sex industry, so I think statements by women like Ms. Sugita are extremely important regarding AV.
Doesn’t the AV coercion issue resemble the comfort women issue in some way.
If you dismiss it as merely an issue within the AV industry, one day, all of a sudden, you could be condemned by a UN committee and the like as ‘Japan is a terrible human-rights-violating country that condones the existence of sex slaves called AV actresses.’
This is a very serious situation.
It is said that women should speak out more actively on the comfort women issue and the AV coercion issue.
This is because issues of sex inevitably carry the image that ‘men are strong and women are weak.’
Precisely because so-called human-rights lawyers understand this, they skillfully exploit the fact of being women, take up one issue after another such as AV and compensated dating, and use them as a ‘victim business.’
We have no choice but to say that their next target being the AV coercion issue is almost certain.
By now, even people in countries unrelated to the comfort women issue have come to hold the mistaken view that ‘the former Japanese military was a savage organization of sexual crimes.’
A major factor is that newspapers such as The New York Times have published articles that largely swallow the claims of China and South Korea, but it also seems that the existence of Japan’s recent adult videos and adult-oriented anime and manga has greatly influenced people in the West and Asia to believe the ‘Japanese military sex-slave theory.’
In the internet age, Japanese adult content is widely viewed overseas as well.
In the West, sex is ‘something both men and women enjoy.’
Because works are produced on that basis, films and the like often contain open and unabashed sexual depictions, but Japan has a culture of ‘hiding’ and ‘being bashful.’
In general, scenarios in which ‘women refuse’ are preferred, so many rape-themed works are also in circulation.
Anime featuring beautiful girls and lolicon themes are popular.
Even if such works merely express things that cannot be done, and are impossible, in real society through video and animation, overseas they are interpreted as, ‘If they make works like this, Japanese people must be perverts.
Therefore, it is also believable that in the past the Japanese military made virgins into sex slaves.’
This is an extremely troublesome problem.
It can be said to be exactly what human-rights lawyers want.
On this matter, I also touch on it in my coauthored book with nonfiction writer Keiko Kawazoe, “‘The History War’ Is Women’s Fight.”
To repeat, the AV coercion issue is connected, in unexpected ways, to the international information war.
I strongly feel that we conservatives, too, have reached a point where we must fight with “women” at the forefront.
Mio Sugita (Sugita Mio).
Born April 1967 (Showa 42).
Graduated from the Department of Forestry, Faculty of Agriculture, Tottori University.
After working as a Nishinomiya City employee and so on, she ran for the House of Representatives election in 2012 (Heisei 24) with endorsement from the Japan Restoration Party and won her first election.
After losing in 2014 (Heisei 26), she has continued her activities as a member of a private international NGO to clear Japan’s dishonor in the international community.
Her favorite words are, “You cannot change the past or other people.
You can change yourself and the future.”