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慰安所:朝鮮人男性従業員の日記発見 ビルマなどでつづる
毎日新聞 2013年08月07日 07時00分（最終更新 08月07日 15時56分）
昭南博物館のスタンプが押された日記
拡大写真
【ソウル澤田克己、大貫智子】第二次世界大戦中にビルマ（現ミャンマー）とシンガポールの慰安所で働き、その様子をつづった朝鮮人男性の日記が、韓国で見つかった。男性は、１９４２年に釜山港を出発した「第４次慰安団」に参加し、４４年末に朝鮮へ戻った。慰安所従業員の日記の発見は、日韓で初めて。旧日本軍による従軍慰安婦問題では、数十年たってからの証言が多いが、現場にいた第三者による記録は、冷静な議論をする上で貴重な資料と言える。
朝鮮近代経済史が専門で、慰安婦問題にも詳しい安秉直（アンビョンジク）ソウル大名誉教授が見つけた。約１０年前にソウル近郊の博物館が古書店で日記などの資料を入手。これを安名誉教授が最近精査し分かった。堀和生京大教授と木村幹神戸大教授が、日本語訳の作成を進めている。
日記は、朝鮮半島南東部・慶尚南道（キョンサンナムド）出身の男性が、ビルマとシンガポールの慰安所で働いた４３、４４年に記した。漢字やカタカナ、ハングルで書かれている。
男性は０５年生まれで７９年に死去。２２年から５７年までの日記が残る。ただ、朝鮮で慰安婦募集に携わった可能性のある４２年を含む８年分は、見つからなかった。
男性は、４３年７月１０日に「昨年の今日、釜山埠頭（ふとう）で乗船し、南方行きの第一歩を踏み出した」と記述。４４年４月６日には「一昨年に慰安隊が釜山から出発した時、第４次慰安団の団長として来た津村氏が（市場で）働いていた」と書いた。
ビルマで捕らえた慰安所経営者を米軍人が尋問し４５年１１月に作成した調査報告書には、４２年７月１０日に慰安婦７０３人と業者約９０人が釜山港を出港したとの記録がある。釜山出港の日付が一致し、日記の正確性を裏付ける。
安名誉教授は「米軍の記録が第４次慰安団を指すのは確実だ。慰安団の存在は、組織的な戦時動員の一環として慰安婦が集められたことを示している」と指摘する。ただ、安名誉教授は、韓国で一般的な「軍や警察による強制連行があった」という意見に対しては、「朝鮮では募集を業者が行い、軍が強制連行する必要は基本的になかったはずだ」との見方を示した。
慰安所:朝鮮人男性従業員の日記発見 ビルマなどでつづる
毎日新聞 2013年08月07日 07時00分（最終更新 08月07日 15時56分）
昭南博物館のスタンプが押された日記
昭南博物館のスタンプが押された日記
拡大写真
また、日記には「航空隊所属の慰安所２カ所が兵站（へいたん）管理に委譲された」（４３年７月１９日）、「夫婦生活をするために（慰安所を）出た春代、弘子は、兵站の命令で再び慰安婦として金泉館に戻ることになったという」（同２９日）などと、慰安所や慰安婦と軍の関係が記されている。
一方、「鉄道部隊で映画（上映）があるといって、慰安婦たちが見物に行ってきた」（４３年８月１３日）、「慰安婦に頼まれた送金６００円を本人の貯金から引き出して、中央郵便局から送った」（４４年１０月２７日）など、日常生活の一端がうかがえる内容もあった。
◇従軍慰安婦問題
第二次大戦中に日本が支配した植民地や占領地などから女性が慰安所に集められ、日本の将兵から性的被害を受けたとされる問題。１９９０年に韓国の女性団体が日韓両国に真相解明や謝罪、補償を求めたのをきっかけに社会問題化した。日本政府は９３年８月、慰安所設置や慰安婦移送に旧日本軍が直接、間接に関与したことを認め、「軍の関与の下に女性の名誉と尊厳を傷つけた」と謝罪する「河野談話」を発表した。ただ、女性の連行段階での軍の関わりについては、第１次安倍内閣当時の０７年、「政府が発見した資料には、軍や官憲によるいわゆる強制連行を直接示す記述は見当たらなかった」という答弁書が閣議決定された。
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/08/13/national/koreans-war-brothel-diaries-offer-new-details/#.Un8OvXCMlbI
Korean’s war brothel diaries offer new details
JIJI
AUG 13, 2013
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SEOUL – The diaries of a Korean man who worked in wartime brothels for Japanese soldiers in Burma and Singapore during World War II have been found in South Korea.
Researchers believe the diaries, the first ever found that were written by someone who worked at a “comfort station,” are authentic and provide actual details of the brothels and the lives of “comfort women.”
They also show that the Imperial Japanese Army was involved in the management of the facilities, which the Japanese government acknowledged in a 1993 statement by then-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono.
The Korean man worked as a clerk in the brothels. Born in 1905, he died in 1979 before the comfort women became a thorny issue between Japan and South Korea.
A South Korean museum obtained the diaries covering 1922 to 1957, with several years missing, from a secondhand bookstore.
Ahn Byung-jik, a professor emeritus at Seoul National University, examined the portion for 1943 and 1944 jointly with two Japanese researchers, Kyoto University professor Kazuo Hori and Kobe University professor Kan Kimura. Their joint research will be published in South Korea in the near future.
One passage describes how two prostitutes who had quit because of their marriages had been ordered to return by army logistics. He also said he submitted daily reports to the logistics command.
The man noted that the manager of one of the comfort stations was a Korean from Chungju in the central part of the peninsula.
He wrote that he had withdrawn ¥600 from a prostitute’s account and remitted it at a post office on her behalf, indicating that comfort women were paid.
In a glimpse of their daily lives, the man wrote that “comfort women went to see a movie screened by the railroad unit.”
The diaries are “highly credible,” Kimura said, noting there was little possibility of alterations because the man died before the comfort women issue became a source of contention.
His accounts conflict with assertions by some Japanese that comfort women were involved in a purely private business, and by some South Koreans that the women were completely enslaved.
A portion is missing for 1942, when many girls and women were believed to have been recruited. But what he wrote in later years describes events that are believed to have happened in 1942.
“On this day last year, I boarded a ship at Busan port and took the first step of my southbound journey,” the man wrote in the entry for July 10, 1943.
On April 6, 1944, he wrote, “When a comfort team left Busan two years ago, Mr. Tsumura, who came as head of the fourth comfort corps, was working in a fresh food association.”
The diaries “confirmed that the fourth comfort corps had existed,” Ahn said. “It has also become certain that the Japanese government had organized comfort teams and took women to the frontline.”
But Ahn is skeptical about the view that the Japanese military and police took women by force from the Korean Peninsula. “I do not think such a thing was possible,” Ahn said, noting that Korea at the time was “a well-ordered society, although it was a colony.”
The 1993 Kono statement said that the Imperial Japanese Army “was, directly or indirectly, involved in the establishment and management of the comfort stations and the transfer of comfort women.”
In the statement, the Japanese government also extended its “sincere apologies and remorse to all those . . . who suffered immeasurable pain and incurable physical and psychological wounds as comfort women.”
In 1995, Japan set up a fund to support former comfort women, called the Asian Women’s Fund, with financial support from the government.
Japan’s official position is that the comfort women issue has been resolved because South Korea gave up all individual claims under a 1965 pact on the normalization of relations between the two nations. Seoul does not consider the comfort women issue to be covered by the pact.
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