Description: We have made the judgment that the testimony that Yoshida forcibly took away comfort women on Jeju was a fabrication.Testimony about 'forcible taking away of women on Jeju Island': Judged to be fabrication because supporting evidence not found.
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LastUpdated 2014/8/22 10:00
Question: There was a man who testified in books and meetings that he had used violence to forcibly take away women on the Korean Peninsula, which was Japan's colony, to make them serve as comfort women during the war. The Asahi Shimbun ran articles about the man from the 1980s until the early 1990s. However, some people have pointed out that his testimony was a fabrication.
The man's name was Seiji Yoshida. In his books and on other occasions, he said that he headed the mobilization section at the Shimonoseki branch of the Yamaguchi Prefectural Romu Hokokukai labor organization that was in control of day laborers.