Published on August 6, 2019.
Continuing from the previous chapter, this article introduces an essay by Otaka Miki published in the monthly magazine WiLL.
It revisits U.S. House Resolution 121, promoted in 2007 by Congressman Mike Honda, and argues that its descriptions of “gang rape,” “forced abortions,” “mutilation,” and other atrocities attributed to Japan may in fact reflect the realities of China and the Korean Peninsula from the past to the present.
The article also raises questions about the trafficking of North Korean defector women, the responsibility of comfort women activists, and whether funds devoted to supporting North Korea or the comfort women campaign should instead be used to rescue refugee women suffering today.

August 6, 2019.
Here, I would like once again to look back at the notorious U.S. House Resolution 121, the resolution condemning Japan, promoted in 2007 by Congressman Mike Honda of California in the United States.
The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
Comfort women activists = the reality of China and North Korea.
Here, I would like once again to look back at the notorious U.S. House Resolution 121, the resolution condemning Japan, promoted in 2007 by Congressman Mike Honda of California in the United States.
“From the 1930s through the duration of World War II, the Government of Japan mobilized young women, known as ‘comfort women,’ for the purpose of providing sexual services to the Japanese military.
The forced military prostitution system, ‘comfort women,’ by the Government of Japan,
was one of the largest cases of human trafficking in the twentieth century, unprecedented in its cruelty and scale, involving ‘gang rape,’ ‘forced abortions,’ ‘humiliation,’ ‘mutilation,’ ‘death,’ and ‘sexual violence that led to suicide.’”
If one knows the horrifying realities of China and the Korean Peninsula from the past to the present, one can understand why the resolution condemning Japan, scripted in America by anti-Japanese lobbyists, came to contain such absurd expressions.
This resolution was unmistakably something that the countries directly concerned in China and the Korean Peninsula had written toward themselves.
At that time, although this content was reported on a large scale overseas, Japan’s major mass media refrained from reporting it, so it is truly regrettable that some happy-go-lucky Japanese people did not even know that America had labeled their ancestors as having committed the great crime of “one of the largest cases of human trafficking in the twentieth century.”
Finally, I would like to introduce words muttered by a Korean to Miura Kotaro, a critic familiar with the situation of North Korean defectors.
“Only a few dozen comfort women are alive now.
However, in China today, probably by the hundreds of thousands, women of our own people are being forced into human trafficking and sale.
If the Sunshine Policy that supports North Korea and the support for comfort women were used to help refugee women who are suffering now, how many women’s human rights could be saved?”
I would very much like the activists of the comfort women issue to face these words directly.
When the whole picture of the comfort women issue eventually becomes clear, the world will turn a severe gaze on the merits and demerits of those activists.