{"id":11930,"date":"2019-12-09T13:27:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T04:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/japanese-officials-helped-procure-wartime-sex-slaves-report-claims"},"modified":"2019-12-09T13:27:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T04:27:49","slug":"japanese-officials-helped-procure-wartime-sex-slaves-report-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11930","title":{"rendered":"Japanese officials helped procure wartime sex slaves, report claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News agency says diplomatic dispatches contradict claims that so-called \u2018comfort women\u2019 worked willingly<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese imperial army asked the government to provide one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2012\/oct\/18\/forced-prostitution-wartime-japan-korea\">wartime sex slave<\/a> for every 70 soldiers serving in China in the late 1930s, according to dispatches that offer evidence of official involvement in the recruitment of women to work in military brothels.<\/p>\n<p>The dispatches from Japanese diplomatic missions in China include requests to the foreign ministry in Tokyo to provide \u201ccomfort women\u201d, Kyodo news agency reported. The term was a euphemism used to describe tens of thousands of women from Korea, Taiwan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>, the Philippines and other countries who were forced into sexual servitude before and during the second world war. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/japanese-officials-helped-procure-wartime-sex-slaves-report-claims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News agency says diplomatic dispatches contradict claims that so-called \u2018comfort women\u2019 worked willinglyThe Japanese imperial army asked the government to provide one wartime sex slave for every 70 soldiers serving in China in the late 1930s, according&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,88,220,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-second-world-war","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11931,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11930\/revisions\/11931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}