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On July 10, 2024, the Third International Symposium over the Comfort Women Issue was held at Seiryo-kaikan Hall at Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, to refute the fiction of the comfort women issue and to pursue a true understanding between Japan and South Korea.

The symposium was held once in Tokyo in 2022 and twice in Seoul in 2023.

The persistent lie about the forced abduction of comfort women during the Pacific War has already been perfectly refuted by studies reported during the past two symposiums.

The main goal of the symposium this time was for Japanese, American and South Korean researchers of the comfort women issue to get together in Tokyo, review the activities so far, exchange information
related to the situations in the respective countries, deepen the mutual bonds and clearly show the way to the complete solution of the comfort women issue.

As this is an extremely important theme in terms of the national honor of Japan and peace and security in the entire East Asia, an audience of nearly 300 people packed the hall and the symposium was opened in
the most enthusiastic atmosphere.

The program was as below:

Part 1: Keynote lectures

  1. Mr. Nishioka Tsutomu, Professor at Reitaku University
    The comfort women issue as a historical recognition issue
  2. Mr. Lee Young hoon, ex-Professor at Seoul University Destructive impact of the Japanese military comfort women issue on the South Korean society
  3. Mr. Ramseyer, Professor at Harvard University Historical issues and the issue of U.S. universities -what we should do from now on

Part 2: Study reports

  1. Mr. Lew Seok-choon, ex-Professor at Yonse University Lecture at Yonse University and defamatory criminal charge
  2. Mr. Fukui Yoshitaka, Professor at Aoyama University The problem of the facts and value judgement about the comfort
    women; from a viewpoint of economic analysis
  3. Mr. Kim Byeong-heon, director of the Korean Historical
    Textbook Research Center Judgement document for the comfort women lawsuit against Japan in
    2023 and descriptions of the comfort women issue in school textbooks
  4. Mr. Lee Wooyoun, researcher at the Naksongdae Economic Research Institute Reporting trend of Korean media about the comfort women issue:
    Focus on the Park Yu-ha’s case and the academic riot against Ramseyer
  5. Mr. Matsuki Kunitoshi, director of the Korean Modern History
    Research Center Lawsuit against Japan on the comfort women issue: danger of revival
    of the individual right for claim, which will destroy the Japan-Korean
    relationship

Mr. Matsuki compiled an overall report on this event, which has been published in Hanada+ from August 7. With permission of Hanada+, we will introduce his report in serial form of three Parts.

PART1

PART2

PART3

   On September 5, 2023, a Korea-Japan Joint Symposium was held in Seoul by the Japan-Korea Alliance for truth, fighting against lies related to the comfort women issue. In the Korea Press Center, Japan’s Rising Sun flag was hoisted and Kimigayo, the national anthem, was sung at the opening ceremony. It is said that such events have not been seen in the Korea Press Center recently.

   The program for the symposium was as follows:

*Welcome words; Kim Hak-song (Chairman, Great National Reconstruction Network for Free Unification)

*Congratulations; I-Yonghun (President, I Sungman Institute)
                   Sugihara Seishiro (Chairman, International Research Institute of Controversial Histories)
                   M. Ramseyer, Professor at Harvard University Law School

 *Proceeding; Chu Okusun (Representative, Alliance for Settlement of the Comfort Women Fraud)

    *Reports:

      Nishioka Tsutomu, Professor at Reitaku University
          “The Comfort Women issue started from Japan”

      Ryu Sok-Chun, former Yonse University Professor
          “The Comfort Women Issue: from the problem of history controversy to the problem of law”

      Yamamoto Yumiko, Representative of Nadeshiko Action
          “The Comfort Women Issue; mistreatments by the UN, ILO and UNESCO as “sex Slave”” 

      I Uyong, Research Staff of Rakuseidai Economic Research Institute
          “Korean Comfort Women: where did they come from?”

      Matsuki Kunitoshi, Senior Researcher of International Research Institute of Controversial Histories
          “Truth of the Comfort Women and Japanese School Text Book Illustrations Problems”

      Kim Jong-heon, President, Korean History Textbook Research Institute

          “Actual illustrations of the Comfort Women in school textbooks of primary, middle, and high schools  and how to cope with this problem”

    *Adoption of a Joint Statement against lies related to the Comfort Women Issue

   On September 6, the next day, the participants conducted a street rally near the comfort girl statue. They outnumbered the participants in the rally held at the same time by the Council for Justice (former Korean Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery of Japan).

We read out and adopted our joint statement at the conduct.
The joint statement by the Japan-Korea alliance for the truth, fighting against lies related to the comfort women issue

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