FAQ

It's not affirmed to be true because it has no objective basis.

(1) Many official documents depicts "comfort women" as legitimate wage workers.

At that time, Japan had government-regulated licensed prostitution system. Probably due to poverty, many Japanese women worked as prostitutes, that was one of legitimate jobs.

We can find descriptions that preserve wage workers, "comfort women";

• "Half of the income of the hostesses(comfort women) will be allotted to the (brothels) managers" ( It means the rest was allotted to comfort women)
• "Expenses incident to these (physical) examination (of comfort women) will be taken care of by the managers"

( "Amenities in the Japanese Armed Forces", Research Report No.120, ATIS, U.S. official document )

(2) No one ever disclosed the official notifications nor orders to implement rape, abuse, captivity, deceiving in recruit, human trafficking.

(3) Lawless soldiers' criminalities existed. But its number is unclear.

There were criminalities by lawless soldiers or lawless lower units that didn't conform to the government-regulated licensed prostitution system. Three women in this film were thought to be victims of those cases. 81 cases of those were judged in the trials after the war. ( NAID 40020019413 and 40020385890, in Japanese, SAJI Akito, Osaka University of Economics and Law) But actual number of those isn't known because there are no verifiable materials.

Because what they insist has no objective basis

• They insist victims' testimonies on their personal experience are the evidence. But that doesn't prove the systematic atrocity nor existence of 200,000 victims.
• They insist official documents show existence of "comfort women" or involvement of Japanese Army in transportation/physical-examination, and those are the evidence. But those are not description of atrocity.
• They insist description of atrocity in commercial publications is the evidence. But primary sources of those are not shown or verified.

( You can check the Korean government's site "e-Museum of the Victims of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery" )

It is also known that what they insist contradicts the facts below;

• No name of killed or dead "comfort women" during the war is known.
• No record of parents or relatives who searched for disappeared "comfort women" after the war.
• No witness other than victims themselves about kidnapping by the military and government authorities in Korea.
• No record of identified(date, location, victims, perpetrators) systematic atrocity.

If there had been large number of atrocities, some of these cases should have been disclosed. But, actually, nothing is known.