表題英字紙がどの程度影響力があるか分かりませんが、朝日新聞の捏造記事（誤報ではありません）について謝罪もなければ（吉田清治の部分だけ否定、広義の強制性があったと訳の分からない論理を主張）、当然外国語での発信もないことと比べれば、ライバル会社と言うことを割り引いても、読売の方が真実を報道する姿勢に近いと思います。内容は読売新聞に掲載されたものを翻訳したもののようですが、日本在住の外国人に真実を伝えるのによく、彼らが自分の国の人に伝えて貰えば嬉しく思います。次世代の党の山田宏氏が「河野洋平が取消しないとダメ。外国人は「謝ったのだから日本は銃剣突きつけて慰安婦にしたのだろうと思う。それを覆すには河野自身が謝らねば」と言ってましたが、その通りです。10/17のﾌﾞﾛｸﾞにも書きましたが、外国との付き合いの中では簡単に謝ってはいけないということです。シンドラーのｴﾚﾍﾞｰﾀｰ事故の時に彼らは簡単に謝罪しませんでした。日本人の大部分は「何故謝らない」と怒ったと思いますが、それが国際標準です。謝罪＝損害賠償です。過失相殺の場面で不利になるかもしれないので。日本人同士の場合は、先ず謝罪から入った方が良いですが、外国相手の場合は自分のミスは知っていても言わないようにしなければなりません。これができないのはナイーブと言われます。河野はナイーブ（日本語の意味のナイーブではありません。念のため）か、共産主義者の手先（慰安婦問題は裏で中国が動いています）か、他国から金を貰ったか、ﾊﾆｰﾄﾗｯﾌﾟに引っかかったかだろうと思います。こんな政治家を選ぶようでは日本人の民度が問われます。（引退はしましたけど）。
読売はちゃんと「韓国は国連の場で日本を非難するが、では60,70年代、米兵のために強制的に（狭義の強制性ですよ）慰安婦を集めあてがったとして慰安婦から訴訟を起こされているし、更にはﾍﾞﾄﾅﾑ戦争時に生ませた5000～30000人の子供をﾍﾞﾄﾅﾑに置き去りしたが、中にはﾚｲﾌﾟまたは売春婦として働かせられて生まれた子もいる。韓国の新聞には「日本の倫理的責任を執拗に追及する一方、自分たちの犯した暴力に対し免罪するのは自己欺瞞である」とある。韓国は自分の置かれた立場をよく考えるべきである。」と書いて日本の立場を主張しています。
South Korea should face up to own past regarding comfort women
7:39 pm, October 18, 2014
The Yomiuri Shimbun
Now that key statements regarding the issue of so-called comfort women have been confirmed to be false, correcting a U.N. report on that issue is a matter of course. The government has asked Radhika Coomaraswamy, a Sri Lankan legal expert and the author of the 1996 U.N. report, to retract the parts that she based on statements made by Seiji Yoshida.
A number of experts had cast doubts on Yoshida’s statements that he forcibly took away many Korean women to serve as comfort women when Coomaraswamy compiled the report. The Asahi Shimbun, which first reported his statements, officially admitted them to be false in August. However, Coomaraswamy refused to retract parts of her report, saying Yoshida’s statements were just one piece of evidence. We cannot help but scratch our heads in perplexity. Aside from former comfort women, Yoshida was the only person who said women were forcibly rounded up and taken away. With Yoshida’s statements confirmed to be untrue, there is no objective evidence to support the statements made by former comfort women. Coomaraswamy’s claim that Yoshida’s statement is just one piece of evidence is hardly convincing.“We’d like to persistently explain and win support for our position in the international community,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga has said. It is essential to conduct a robust campaign to propagate the Japan’s position that there is no evidence supporting the claim of forcible taking away of women. At a session of the Third Committee of the U.N. General Assembly, which deals with human rights issues, the South Korean ambassador to the United Nations criticized Japan on Wednesday, saying the issue of comfort women was a major example of sexual violence during conflict that has not been resolved even today. It was the fourth consecutive year that South Korea had brought up the issue at the committee.
Matter already settled
But the issue of the right to claim reparations, including those pertaining to comfort women, was settled between Japan and South Korea — from the standpoint of international law — when the two nations normalized their diplomatic ties. The government has also provided atonement money to 285 former comfort women, including about 60 South Koreans, through the Asian Women’s Fund it established. At the Third Committee session, the Japanese side presented a counterargument to the South Korean ambassador’s statements, including the Asahi’s admission that Yoshida’s statements were untrue. In the first place, it is odd for South Korea to repeatedly bring a bilateral issue into the forum of the United Nations. If it wants to denounce sexual violence, how does South Korea explain its problems at home? In June this year, South Korean former comfort women for U.S. troops sued their government for compensation, saying they were forced into prostitution in the 1960s and 70s. According to a group supporting those women, the South Korean government established special red-light districts for U.S. soldiers and managed those women. Furthermore, South Korean troops dispatched to the Vietnam War reportedly fathered from 5,000 to 30,000 children with Vietnamese women and left them behind there. Some of the children were born after their mothers served as prostitutes or were raped. One South Korean newspaper carried a column saying, “It is self-deception to insist on a pardon for our own violence while we tenaciously pursue Japan’s moral responsibility.” South Korea should reflect on its own situation.
(From The Yomiuri Shimbun, Oct. 18, 2014)Speech
