User:Yaki-gaijin

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A foreigner in Japan, who likes grilled meat, but dislikes being called gaijin.

Currently battling revisionists over comfort women.

[edit] People related to the issue (for my reference)

• Kako Senda: non-fiction writer and former journalist who wrote about comfort women's "pitiful" conditions.
• Yayori Matsui: feminist journalist who wrote the story of one comfort woman she interviewed in the Asahi Shimbun.

1980: feminist and democratic revolution in Korea allows comfort women to talk more freely about their past.

• Yun Chung-ok: a professor at Korea's Ewha Womans University who was a catalyst in forcing the Japanese government to recognize the comfort women as a significant part of Japan's unresolved war issues.
• Kim Hak-soon: a former comfort woman who was so angry that she decided to "come out" as a way of forcing the Japanese government to confront the issue. She was the first Korean woman residing in South Korea to reveal herself in public as a former comfort woman.
• Yoshiaki Yoshimi: went to the archives of the Self-Defense Agency (Boeicho), where he found evidence that conclusively demonstrated the involvement of the Japanese Imperial Army in organizing the comfort women system for its soldiers (though the nature of the comfort women system and the state/military involvement, including the use of force and coercion, still required further study).

In 1992, faced with documentary evidence from its own archives, the Japanese government had no choice but to acknowledge military involvement, and Prime Minister Miyazawa Kiichi officially apologized to South Korea.

In 1993, a Japanese government hearing for fifteen former comfort women in Seoul revealed that many women had been made to serve as comfort women involuntarily. Later that year, Chief Cabinet Secretary Kono Yohei made an official statement (danwa), essentially admitting that the Japanese Imperial Army had been directly and indirectly involved in the establishment and administration of comfort facilities. The government also acknowledged that coercion had been used in the recruitment and retention of the women, and called for historical research and education aimed at remembering the fact.

• Yoshio Yasumaru: specialist on the history of Japanese thought who argues that without the existence and systematic operations of traffickers in the colonies who were active agents and mediators between the women and the military it would have been impossible for the state to collect such a large number of women.
• Takao Sakamoto: a historian of Japanese political thought who argues that "history is a story...of the formation of a nation, a people," which aims at the construction of a sense of national unity and that is not necessarily based on verified facts drawn from studies of history, but one in which facts are "fittingly woven into the story" in order to enhance its reality.
• Yoshiko Sakurai: a former television news anchor woman and current freelance journalist who insists "all the textbooks . . . assume 'taken by force' as a major premise; however, . . it is my conviction that [the women] were not 'taken by force.'" For Sakurai, Japan's (hi)story needs to be told from the Japanese perspective, that is, a perspective through which the younger generation come to love the nation.
• Nobukatsu Fujioka: an educational scholar and long a central figure in the neonationalist attack on history textbooks, has even argued that the inclusion of "lies" in history books (and, by implication, textbooks) is acceptable for certain purposes, for instance, to make the story "colorful." Fujioka has disclosed that in the 1990s, when he was involved in authoring Takasugi Shinsaku, a series of history books for children (intended to aid their understanding of history lessons in schools), he included some fictitious stories. As he puts it

To write [a history] based only on verified historical truths makes . . . [it] insipid and dry. I changed my policy for the lack of an alternative--I had no choice but to write from my own imagination to a great extent.

Source for all these

• Nariaki Nakayama: politician
• Masakazu Honda: journalist