Sankei Shimbun’s “Sankei-sho” examines Lee Yong-soo’s press conference criticizing the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance and Yoon Mee-hyang, raising questions about the true nature of South Korea’s anti-Japanese activism over the comfort women issue. If Lee’s claims are correct, not only former comfort women but also Japanese supporters who helped Yoon’s anti-Japanese activities were used.

May 14, 2020
If Ms. Lee’s claims are correct, it is not only the former comfort women.
The Japanese supporters who lent a hand to Ms. Yoon’s anti-Japanese activities were also completely used.
The following is from today’s Sankei-sho.
The note from the final asterisk is mine.
Perhaps because more people are now spending time at home reading printed words at leisure, back issues of the magazine Seiron, especially the “two-volume history war set,” are reportedly selling well.
The mudslinging that has begun in South Korea may affect that history war.
The starting point was a press conference held last week by former comfort woman Lee Yong-soo, 91.
She harshly criticized the anti-Japanese organization “The Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan,” known as the Justice and Remembrance Council.
She claims that the rallies the council holds every week in front of the Japanese Embassy “only teach hatred.”
She also directed her criticism at Yoon Mee-hyang, 55, the former chairwoman of the Justice and Remembrance Council, with whom she had worked for 30 years.
She says that Ms. Yoon, who was elected for the first time in the April general election, “used me in order to become a National Assembly member.”
In response, Ms. Yoon counterattacked by saying that this was a “memory mistake due to old age.”
Cho Kuk, the former justice minister who was indicted without arrest in January this year on charges including abuse of authority during his time as a senior official at the presidential office, was called the “onion man.”
That was because scandals were uncovered one after another, as if peeling the layers of an onion, from his daughter’s fraudulent admission to opaque investments by relatives.
Triggered by Ms. Lee’s accusations, a number of suspicions have also surfaced regarding Ms. Yoon.
She pressured a former comfort woman other than Ms. Lee not to accept cash payments based on the 2015 Japan-South Korea agreement.
Most of the large amount of donations collected from the public remains of unknown use.
While advocating anti-Japanese and anti-American positions, she sent her daughter to study in the United States, and the source of those funds is also unknown.
Ms. Yoon’s husband and his younger sister were once convicted, though later partly acquitted, of the crime of contacting North Korean agents.
Once again, Ms. Yoon’s deep connections with North Korea are also being brought into sharp focus.
If Ms. Lee’s claims are correct, it is not only the former comfort women.
The Japanese supporters who lent a hand to Ms. Yoon’s anti-Japanese activities were also completely used.
Among these supporters are Kiyomi Tsujimoto, who provided a room as a Diet member when Yoon Mee-hyang held a press conference in Japan, saying that she did not recognize the agreement between the Japanese and South Korean governments on the comfort women issue, and Mizuho Fukushima and others, who, despite being lawyers of Japan, from the beginning lent a hand to, or rather encouraged, Yoon Mee-hyang’s outrageous anti-Japanese movement in filing lawsuits against the Japanese government. They are the masterminds behind it.