Talk:Comfort women

New York Times articles about systematic harrassment and history revisionism

I thought that somebody might want to incorporate references to this information into the article: http://nytimes.com/2014/11/15/opinion/comfort-women-and-japans-war-on-truth.html http://nytimes.com/2014/12/03/world/asia/japanese-right-attacks-newspaper-on-the-left-emboldening-war-revisionists.html David A (talk) 11:03, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

China/S Korea started newly intensified campaign of Japan bashing with lies, hate, and distortion after Aoyama disclosed there are huge metanhydrate and potential for normal gas/oil around oceans of japan. There are 500,000 chinese working for 50 cent army who do cyber espionage and oppression. Korean VANK cyber japan bashing group are financed by korea and china. They try hard to push lies in effort to steal island from japan and asia. As for NYT, chinse pour lots of money in to the company so it is too biased to use as a source.Real7777 (talk) 01:54, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

The New York Times tends to criticise China far more than it does Japan, and has received very angry reactions from China in the past due to its articles about corruption within the country. David A (talk) 18:11, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

The New York Times have a partnership with the Asahi Shimbun which had reported false information, such as comfort women were taken away by force, for a long long time. In 2014, the Asahi Shimbun have admitted their misses and apologize it in Japan. However, they do not admit that they have made it scatter to the international community. In Japan, the left-wing group or communist are tends to insist that comfort women were taken away and forced to be prostitute. And The Asahi Shimbun is a typical left-leaning newspaper in Japan.--IP58xv (talk) 02:18, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

The New York Times has completely different editorial biases than the Asahi Shimbun, which did not deny that thousands of women were essentially tricked into becoming sexual slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army. The only thing that Asahi Shimbun apologized for was the posting of one man's false account. The many true accounts of kidnapping, prostitution, and sexual slavery remain untouched. Both right- and left-leaning American historians agree on this point. It's not a political dispute. Binksternet (talk) 15:04, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

inappropriate picture should be removed

"Studio portrait of Jan Ruff O'Herne, taken shortly before she, her mother and sisters, as well as thousands of other Dutch women and children were interned by the Japanese Imperial Army in Ambarawa. Over the following months, O'Herne, along with six other Dutch women, were repeatedly raped, day and night, by Japanese military personnel" Way less than 1% of females were RAPED by the CRIMINALS that went AGAINST the government policies. This has nothing to do with comforting prostitution. Similarly, CDC estimates that there are over 1.3 million rapes per year in USA, which has nothing to do with LEGAL prostitution in Nevada. Real7777 (talk) 02:21, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Rape statistics in the USA??? Legal prostitution in Nevada????? You might take a look at the supporting source cited in the image caption, the Jan Ruff O'Herne article, the Fifty Years of Silence article and the Fifty Years of Silence book. If you still feel that another viewpoint needs to be represented on this in the article, please see WP:DUE. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 02:43, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Japanese Prisoner of War Interrogation Report No. 49

It should be talken in this article.[1][2]--219.167.4.77 (talk) 13:46, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

No, we regard primary sources as less trustworthy than the analysis of those sources by historians. Binksternet (talk) 06:30, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

That is not promary source, the report is one of the most valuable source that was reported by U.S.Army.--218.47.20.188 (talk) 08:05, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Please put this picture

”Comfort women crossing a rever following Japanese solders.”

This picture is stating another view of comfort women.--218.47.20.188 (talk) 05:26, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

No, this photograph is not typical, so it would not be neutral. Binksternet (talk) 06:30, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Typical? Who decide it? This is one of the typical piccture and necessary to keep the article in the neutral--218.47.20.188 (talk) 08:02, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

No, this picture shows a happy woman while the article describes a terrible situation. The photo does not match the text. Binksternet (talk) 15:06, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Comfort women recruit ad.

”Newspaper advertisements for recruitement of comfort women for the Japanese Imperial Army.”

Please put this ad. The left one was published in Oct 27th 1944, Qualification requirements:18~30 years of age. Healthy women. The right one was published in July 26th 1944, Qualification:17~23 years of age. More than 300 yen monthly income, getting an advance of 3000 yen is possible. 300 yen was approximately 1.05 million yen in the current monetary value. --218.47.20.188 (talk) 05:47, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

WP:SECONDARY analysis published by historians is more important than individual examples which may be selected without regard for balance. Binksternet (talk) 06:30, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

So, please explain why this ad break the balance?--218.47.20.188 (talk) 08:08, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

IWG report

IWG report[3][4] should be shown in this article. Accroding to this report, the evidences that Japanese army force taken comfort women has never found, in spite of the investigation of the enormous material.--218.47.20.188 (talk) 08:21, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Which report, and what exactly does it say? Give us the precise source details for that report, and give us a reliable secondary reference discussing its significance. Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:48, 14 March 2015 (UTC)