This article examines, through a Sankei Shō column, the allegations of donation misuse involving South Korean comfort women support groups such as the Justice for Remembrance Solidarity and the House of Sharing. It questions the reality of the anti-Japanese movement exposed by a former comfort woman’s accusation, and the responsibility of Japanese collaborators who have long stood behind it.

May 23, 2020
Articles on the comfort women issue by the Asahi Shimbun were on display, and there was also a photograph of Tomiko Okazaki, the former chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission, who had participated in a demonstration organized by the Korean Council.
There was also a message board from a Communist Party-affiliated organization.
The following is from today’s Sankei Shō column.
The emphasis in the text is mine.
When one speaks of South Korean support groups for comfort women, one thinks of organizations that, behind the prestige of former comfort women who somehow came to be treated as national heroes, were handled almost as sacred and untouchable entities.
Their influence over public opinion was great, and they were troublesome and anti-Japanese entities said even to “hold a de facto veto over Japan-South Korea diplomacy,” according to a senior official of South Korea’s Foreign Ministry.
The representative example is the Justice for Remembrance Solidarity for the Resolution of the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery Issue, formerly the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, and its former chairwoman, Yoon Mee-hyang, was elected from the ruling party in the general election in April.
However, the situation changed when Lee Yong-soo, a former comfort woman who had worked together with Yoon for 30 years, accused her.
“They call it sexual slavery, but it is so filthy and unpleasant that I cannot bear it. I told Yoon that. But she said, ‘Only if we express it this way will the United States be frightened.’”
Lee said this to the South Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo, and also claimed that donations intended for former comfort women had been misappropriated.
On the 20th, the Justice for Remembrance Solidarity came to be searched by South Korean prosecutors.
Furthermore, at the private facility House of Sharing, where former comfort women live together, suspicions over the use of donations were exposed by facility staff, and the facility came to face administrative sanctions.
Support groups that had enjoyed social status were suddenly exposed to criticism for having turned former comfort women into tools of business.
It may be characteristic of our neighboring country that rise and fall, praise and blame, are so extreme, but Japan is not unrelated to this matter.
When I visited the history museum attached to the House of Sharing several years ago, articles on the comfort women issue by the Asahi Shimbun were on display, and there was also a photograph of Tomiko Okazaki, the former chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission, who had participated in a demonstration organized by the Korean Council.
There was also a message board from a Communist Party-affiliated organization.
Behind South Korea’s anti-Japanese posture, there are always Japanese collaborators.
It was also a Japanese lawyer who first began calling comfort women “sex slaves.”
Sadly, this is precisely why it is said that Japan’s enemies are Japanese.