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The USA national histrians team (IWG) themselfs concluded comfort woman was paid military prostituter.
This is not Japanese denial of war crimes.
The IWG published a report focused on the Japanese war crime titled “Researching Japanese War Crimes, Introductory Essays”. In the report, the IWG analysed the reason why the documents of japanese war criminals include about comfort women documents were scarce.
https://www.archives.gov/files/iwg/japanese-war-crimes/introductory-e
ssays.pdf
"Licensed prostitution was legal in prewar Japan, and Allied officials viewed the small part of the overseas system they uncovered as an extension of homeland practices. Prosecuting Japanese soldiers for rape, a notorious crime everywhere the army set foot, took precedence over investigating the circumstances of “comfort women,” who were seen as professional prostitutes, not as unwilling victims coerced into brothels by employees of the Japanese military."
This analysis is in line with the "Japanese Prisoner of War Interrogation Report 49" written in 1944, which describes "A 'comfort girl' to be nothing more than a prostitute or 'professional camp follower' attached to the Japanese Army for the benefit of the soldiers."
The report further stated that this practice was not charged with criminal acts.
"In part to reduce local resentment against Japan and in part to prevent the spread of venereal disease among its ranks, the Japanese military contracted private vendors to set up “comfort stations” for the troops as early as 1932. Again, this practice was known to the Allies but no criminal can harges were filed at the trials."
the IWG expressed disappointment at the preface of the report because the IWG uncovered and released very few Asian theatre records.
thus, the IWG apologized to the Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WWII in Asia,which was involved in the commencement of this project.
