This article documents the critical fact that the South Korean government itself has acknowledged the absence of evidence proving the forced recruitment of comfort women. Based on official statements and government-level materials from both Japan and South Korea, it exposes how this shared recognition has been politically obscured in international discourse.

2017-08-08.
The following is another painstaking work discovered online.
http://blog.livedoor.jp/kanedashoji70/archives/53694998.html

South Korean newspapers as seen from the perspective of a Zainichi Korean.
The author examines Korean newspaper reporting through the eyes of a newly naturalized citizen, writing about notable issues and underlying interpretations found in South Korean media.

Comfort Women.
Even the South Korean side has no evidence of forced recruitment.

Omitted.

Frankly, this should have been written far more clearly.
That the South Korean government also does not possess evidence of forced recruitment.

For reference, the full text of the Japanese government’s official written response is provided here.

Kaneda has examined various materials.
He has read what are claimed to be South Korean sources and has written about this issue several times in the past, so readers are likely already aware.
An analysis of testimonies by so-called former comfort women reveals nothing that suggests forced recruitment.
In fact, there are no testimonies with credible evidentiary value at all.

For this reason, the South Korean government’s response on this matter has remained vague, resorting to expressions such as “the international community has made a clear judgment.”
This ambiguity exists because evidence cannot be produced.
If such evidence existed, it would simply be presented.

There was also an article such as the following.

According to the office of Assemblyman Han Seon-gyo, a senior official of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family stated that
“what is important in the issue of the Japanese military comfort women is the sexual violence that occurred within comfort stations and the human rights activities to overcome those damages,” and further acknowledged that
“because there is no evidence of forced mobilization, it is difficult to directly include expressions stating that they were forcibly taken.”

Although explanations were later offered regarding this statement, no evidence proving forced recruitment has been discovered since.
That remains the present situation.

If the history teacher mentioned previously truly possesses such evidence, it should be presented.
It would be welcomed.

Within the range of South Korean historical materials and documents accessible to Kaneda, no evidence of forced recruitment exists.
This constitutes the shared understanding at the government level between Japan and South Korea at this point in time.

Omitted.