Why should we stop calling them 'Comfort Women'? When discussing the history of the Japanese Occupation Era, we habitually use the term 'Comfort Women.' However, this name, originated by the Japanese military, is essentially a cruel 'whitewashing euphemism.' By continuing to use terms left behind by the perpetrators, we unintentionally downplay the suffering of the victims. We must promote a name change to 'Military Sexual Slaves' to restore historical truth.
During World War II, the Japanese army committed various war crimes during their occupation of Singapore, including the Sook Ching Massacre, the abuse and killing of British and Australian prisoners of war, forcing Malay, Chinese and Eurasian women to serve as sex slaves, and forcibly requisitioning food supplies that led to widespread famine, among others.
This article criticizes the narrative that attributes all of Taiwan's current political, economic, educational, and cultural problems to the 'elites of the **Japanese Occupation Era**' whose lives were taken during the 228 Incident. The author dismisses this narrative as beautifully packaged rhetoric full of wonderful imagination and 'ridiculous bullshit.' Using the painter Chen Cheng-po as an example, the article points out his true role in the 228 Incident was a 'Taiwan Regional Council Representative,' not merely an artist, and questions why these 'Japanese Occupation Era elites' failed to prevent the Japanese military's wartime actions, the Comfort Women issue, or Kōminka (Japanization) education. The author sarcastically notes these elites failed to stop the Japanese military from eradicating Chinese culture and suggests that true 'Chinese culture' is deeply rooted in the hearts of the Taiwanese people, independent of the 'ROC aesthetics' after the 228 Incident.
This article comments on the protests from Japan following the KMT's installation of a Comfort Women statue in Tainan. The author notes that Japan's *Sankei Shimbun* labeled the incident as an 'anti-Japanese act,' but argues that Taiwan (including South Korea) is actually opposing Japan's past war of aggression. The author stresses that while Japan has apologized and paid reparations to South Korea, it has never apologized to the Taiwanese Comfort Women, calling this clear 'discriminatory treatment.' The article concludes that if the Japanese are still unwilling to face and acknowledge the atrocities of the Japanese Occupation Era, then being perceived as 'anti-Japanese' is acceptable.
Lin Chuan, the newly appointed Premier of the Republic of China's Executive Yuan, loudly declared in the Legislative Yuan, the sacred sanctuary of public opinion, 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!