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This chapter brings old documents that were
issued from Imperial Japanese governments. After the search of these documents, NOTHING
has turned up indicating that women were forcibly rounded up to work as Comfort
Women, but rather turned up evidence that these
orders and directives were aimed to protect the rights of women. Those documents also indicated that
Japanese government authority and Japanese military got involved in Comfort
Women system regarding the following points #2~#6.
#1, prohibited illegal recruitment of Comfort
Women by abduction, and the action of deceiving women with smooth talk
#2, determined how many Comfort Women to be
recruited
#3, determined the rules in recruiting
Comfort Women, regarding age, qualification,
#4, the rules prevented women from being
gathered by inappropriate / illegal methods
#5, issued ID to Comfort Women under the approval
of their parents / guardians,
#6, transported Comfort Women to oversea,
#1 had special meanings in addition to the
moral consciousness and law awareness.
In the era, His Majesty of the Emperor was the presence of being
Arahitokami (God who appears in the world in human form) whom all Japanese
nationals respected. So, Japanese
military and the government authorities paid high attention to their terminal
parts' actions / behaviors that were likely to dishonor the Emperor.
All copies of documents issued from Imperial
Japanese Government are available in links at the National Archives at The
Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR), which houses wartime orders / directives
from the government and military leaders, or at Asian Women’s Fund, the latter
of which Japanese government established for the atonement project for former
Comfort Women.
軍慰安婦従業婦等募集に関する件「陸軍省副官」(昭13.3.4)
* Explicitly prohibits the recruiting methods
that fraudulently employ the army's name or that can be classified as abduction
* Employing such illegal methods would be
punished for hurting the military prestige and giving misunderstanding to
ordinary citizens.
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支那渡航婦女の取り扱いに関する件「内務省警備局長通牒案」(昭13.2.18)
* Recruiting Comfort Women must be
appropriate
* Inappropriate / illegal recruitment of
Comfort Women would hurt the prestige of both the nation and the military, and
have bad influence on families of soldiers.
* Comfort Women must reach their 21th
birthday, not have venereal disease.
* Women who are already professionally
engaged in the trade may be recruited
* Comfort Women need to get ID issued from police
* Before issuing ID, the following points
must be surveyed or confirmed.
*
Contract period with the broker
* Approval by parents or the guardians
*
Fidelity guarantee
*
Women are NOT gathered by abduction
* When issuing the ID, Comfort Women should
be notified that they can close the business after fulfilling the contract
period.
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南支方面渡航婦女の取り扱いに関する件「内務省警備局長」(昭13.11.8)
* Brokers who gather Comfort Women and/or
take them to the oversea need to confirm fidelity guarantee of the women (i.e, recruiting of women by
inappropriate methods is prohibited)
* Total 400 Comfort Women will be gathered to
send to South China from Japan.
* One conductor can lead a group consisting
of 10 ~ 30 Comfort Women.
* Comfort Women must reach their 21th
birthday and be healthy.
* Women who are already professionally
engaged in the trade may be recruited
* Comfort Women need to get issued ID
* Medical examination is required before
issuing ID to the women
* The debt that the women can borrow from the
broker in advance must be as small as possible.
* For recruiting, the women must be notified
beforehand how the job is like.
* Comfort Women must have medical examination
conducted by the military while working
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