Yes, the newly appointed Premier of the Republic of China’s Executive Yuan, Lin Chuan, has spoken out. In the Legislative Yuan, the sacred sanctuary of public opinion, he loudly declared to all compatriots in Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu, Orchid Island, Green Island, and those scattered overseas, as well as to all victims of Japanese aggression in Asia: Comfort women may have been voluntary!
Yes, I am deeply upset. Lin Chuan’s statement, translated plainly, means: Taiwanese comfort women who were captured by the Japanese, raped, and forced to have abortions may have been voluntary.
What kind of nonsense is Lin Chuan talking?
Tears of Taiwanese Military Sexual Slaves
What upsets me is not the historical truth of whether comfort women could potentially be voluntary, but rather Lin Chuan’s identity. Lin Chuan is currently the Premier of the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China, a position representing supreme dignity, yet this position has been tarnished by a mere blockhead.
Unsurprisingly, some Taiwan independence advocates or Japanese loyalists immediately jumped out to mindlessly and forcefully defend the DPP, Lin Chuan, and by extension, Tsai Ing-wen.
Activists step over a picture of Shinzo Abe during a protest in front of the Japan Interchange Association in Taipei.
The defense methods are the same old tired scripts: attempting to imagine a voluntary comfort woman to deny the truth of the existence of all Taiwanese women who were compelled and deceived by the Japanese Empire.
In fact, regardless of whether a single person ever volunteered to be a comfort woman, Lin Chuan spoke as a Premier of the Executive Yuan. A Premier who cannot defend the freedom and dignity of the Taiwanese people is useless and unwanted.
Moreover, they have not even been able to find one comfort woman who admits to being voluntary, yet this group of people can talk as if it were a proven fact. I am truly astonished by the intelligence of those Taiwan independence advocates.
Some people on the island of Taiwan Province are very strange. They constantly try to get everyone entangled in the possibility of voluntary comfort women, yet they never demand an apology from the Japanese for the bloody history of their compatriots. They are only preoccupied with finding ways for the Japanese to save face.
In the early Republic of China period, there was a specific term for such people. That word is Hanjian (Traitor to the Han/Chinese people).
Comfort Women (
Comfort Women) Summary: “Comfort Women” (Comfort Women) were women systematically and intentionally compelled or deceived by the Japanese military into providing sexual services to soldiers in colonies and occupied territories during World War II. Although the term is a literal translation of the Japanese ianfu, it sugarcoats the facts and fails to convey the cruelty of the reality. The true identity of these women is Military Sexual Slaves (Military Sexual Slaves) or Victims of Wartime Sexual Violence (Victims of Wartime Sexual Violence). They were not voluntary sex workers but were systematically exploited and enslaved, suffering extremely severe physical and psychological trauma. This system is widely recognized as a Crime Against Humanity.