User talk:Aki42006

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Your recent edits to 慰安婦#Japanese[edit]

I have reverted your changes to this entry, as these changes appear to be politically motivated, and are not corroborated by other sources.

Please stop rewording the entry to suggest that these women were there willingly. The historical record is reasonably clear, even to the point that various monolingual Japanese dictionaries explicitly state that ianfu were forced. See, for instance, the Daijirin entry here at Weblio, or the various entries here at Kotobank. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 18:26, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • The Sankei is known as a right-wing publication with nationalist overtones. Their refutation of anything negative about Japan is unsurprising. Meanwhile, the Asahi article discusses the stories of one individual, Seiji Yoshida, which stories have garnered considerable negative attention and political pressure from the Abe administration -- which itself is trending towards right-wing and nationalistic.
Meanwhile, even with regard to the Yoshida retraction story, the Wall Street Journal reported here that:

While retracting the articles citing Mr. Yoshida, the paper said there was solid evidence to show that the kidnapping of women by the Imperial Japanese Army took place in other parts of Asia.

Even if we accept that Yoshida's individual stories were fabricated (a hypothesis I find questionable, given the political environment), the WSJ and numerous other sources -- including many first-hand accounts -- all give ample evidence that ianfu were forced.
Please do not reword the entry to suggest that ianfu were willing participants. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 00:39, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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