This article examines how Professor Tsutomu Nishioka dismantled the “sexual slavery” narrative surrounding the comfort women issue, highlighting diplomatic failures and the consequences of silence in international discourse.
2017-06-28
This analysis highlights the legal and historical flaws of the “sexual slavery” claim and underscores how diplomatic silence can be interpreted internationally as acquiescence, perpetuating reputational damage.

2017-06-28
Professor Nishioka Tsutomu is an individual of incomparable value to Japan, having academically verified that reporting on the comfort women issue was fabricated.
Considering the reality that such falsehoods as the comfort women issue are accepted worldwide, it is by no means an exaggeration to say that in every sense, he has left achievements worthy even of a Nobel Prize to humanity.
The following is an excerpt from his paper.
“A Case Truly Befitting Legal Banditry.”
A Grave Defamation.
On June 12, Choo Mi-ae, leader of South Korea’s ruling Democratic Party, wrote on social media after meeting with Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Nikai Toshihiro during his visit to South Korea that she had told him the comfort women issue was a matter of natural law concerning human rights and justice, involving the wartime abduction of young girls as sexual slaves, and that contract law logic could not be applied.
According to her explanation, Mr. Nikai argued that the comfort women agreement must be honored because it was a promise between the two countries.
In response, Ms. Choo countered that insisting an agreement must be honored was merely contract law logic, and that the Korean people could not accept an agreement made by a country that had made no effort to discover the truth while sidelining the victims.
Her recognition of the comfort women issue as “wartime abduction of young girls as sexual slaves” is a grave defamation that contradicts historical fact.
Did Mr. Nikai properly refute her by stating that her understanding of the facts was incorrect?
Given that no detailed account of the meeting has been disclosed by Mr. Nikai’s side, I suspect that he did not refute her.
If he failed to do so, it would constitute a violation of the Liberal Democratic Party’s campaign pledge.
In the December 2014 general election, the party promised to firmly refute groundless accusations based on falsehoods and to act to restore Japan’s honor and national interests through international outreach.
Prime Minister Abe Shinzo also stated in the January 18, 2016 House of Councillors Budget Committee that there were incorrect defamatory claims, that the notion of 200,000 sexual slaves was false, and that the government would clearly demonstrate the facts.
Foreign Minister Kishida Fumio likewise stated that the term “sexual slave” was inappropriate and should not be used.
However, there has been no report that Japanese diplomats stationed in South Korea formally protested Ms. Choo’s use of the term.
On the contrary, two days after meeting Mr. Nikai, she appeared in front of the Japanese Embassy and proudly proclaimed that she had told him the comfort women agreement was invalid and must be renegotiated.
In international society, failure to refute is taken as acceptance.
The continued failure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and many politicians to observe this basic diplomatic principle, instead opting for appeasement through apology, is precisely why defamatory claims that Japan enslaved young girls persist to this day.
(To be continued.)