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*** 28-Dec-17 World View -- China funds unauthorized anti-Japan comfort woman statue in Manila, Philippines
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** China funds unauthorized anti-Japan comfort woman statue in Manila, Philippines
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Unauthorized comfort woman statue on Roxas Boulevard in Manila, the Philippines (Japan Forward)
An unauthorized statue representing a "comfort woman" during Japan's
occupation of the Philippines has been erected on Roxas Boulevard in
Manila, usually reserved for statues of actresses and former
presidents.
The statue was funded by a group of Chinese donors working in
secret with a Philippines feminist organization. The statue
was reported in Chinese media even before an unveiling ceremony
took place on December 9.
On December 12, the Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)
sent a letter to the Mayor of Manila, with "requests for background
information regarding the monument, including the process of erecting
such monuments, and the circumstances that led to the erection of the
"Comfort Woman" statue." The mayor responded that the statue had been
erected without a permit, and that no permit had been issued.
A similar statue in San Francisco has drawn retaliation from Japan.
San Francisco and Osaka, Japan's third-largest city, became sister
cities in 1957, as part of a post-war effort to foster peace. Last
month, the mayor of Osaka announced that they will end the
relationship. Osaka mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura said, "Our relationship
of trust was completely destroyed. I will dissolve the sister-city
relationship."
So far, no similar retaliatory measures have been taken against Manila
or the Philippines for the Manila statue. Manila is a sister city of
Yokohama, Japan, while Japan is the Philippines' biggest partner in
trade, investment, and official development assistance.
Although no permit has been issued for the statue in Manila, Teresita
Ang See, identified as a "community and anticrime advocate" of Chinese
ancestry in Manila, justifies the statue:
<QUOTE>"The Japanese occupation is a fact. The atrocities,
persecutions, massacres, rape and other war crimes are
facts. These we cannot and should not deny. There is a park at the
corner of Anda and Gen. Luna Streets in Intramuros, put up by the
Memorare Manila, to remember the more than 100,000 civilians
killed during the Battle of Manila."<END QUOTE>
The Japanese say that they object to the statues because they are
being singled out, when rape and sexual slavery are common in any
war.
And the Japanese are absolutely right.
From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, rape, sexual
slavery and other sex crimes are common in war, especially
generational crisis wars, as a way of demoralizing the enemy.
Japan's sex crimes are over 70 years old, but there are girls and
women being sold as sex slaves in Libya today. These are Mideast and
African refugees who come to Libya hoping to cross over to Europe.
Instead, they run out of money to pay human traffickers and they get
auctioned off in slave auctions. The men are auctioned as worker
slaves, and the boys, girls and women are auctioned as sex slaves.
That's happening today, and I'm not aware of any statues being erected
for them.
As a Chinese woman, Teresita Ang See statement about comfort women is
probably motivated as much by her hatred of the Japanese and
Philippines people as she is about her concern for the victims.
The hatred between Chinese and Philippines people is enormous, as was
documented in a 2003 book World on Fire by Yale Law School
professor Amy Chua. Chua was a member of the élite Chinese descent
minority living in Manila, in an enclave walled off from ordinary
Filipinos, whom she never saw except as servants living in filth in
the basement of her family's mansion. Chua described what happened
after one of the servants murdered her aunt:
<QUOTE>"Each time I think of Nilo Abique -- he was close to
six feet and my aunt was four-feet-eleven-inches tall -- I find
myself welling up with a hatred and revulsion so intense it is
actually consoling. But over time I have also had glimpses of how
the Chinese must look to the vast majority of Filipinos, to
someone like Abique: as exploiters, as foreign intruders, their
wealth inexplicable, their superiority intolerable. I will never
forget the entry in the police report for Abique's "motive for
murder." The motive given was not robbery, despite the jewels and
money the chauffer was said to have taken. Instead, for motive,
there was just one word -- "Revenge."
My aunt's killing was just a pinprick in a world more violent than
most of us ever imagined. In America we read about acts of mass
slaughter and savagery; at first in faraway places, now coming
closer and closer to home. We do not understand what connects
these acts. Nor do we understand the role we have played in
bringing them about.
In the Serbian concentration camps of the early 1990s, the women
prisoners were raped over and over, many times a day, often with
broken bottles, often together with their daughters. The men, if
they were lucky, were beaten to death as their Serbian guards sang
national anthems; if they were not so fortunate, they were
castrated or, at gunpoint, forced to castrate their fellow
prisoners, sometimes with their own teeth. In all, thousands were
tortured and executed."<END QUOTE>
Perhaps one of my readers from the Balkans can let me know if there
are any statues being erected for the men who were castrated by their
fellow prisoners with their teeth.
In the end, this whole comfort women issue is an opportunistic
way to collect money from the Japanese, but it's really all about
the ethnic hatred that the Japanese, Chinese and Philippines
have for each other. In the last war, it was Japan versus
China and the Philippines. In the next war it will be China
versus Japan and the Philippines.
So the Japanese are completely correct that they're being singled
out for things that are common in generational crisis wars.
History is written by the victors. America and the West were the
victors in World War II, and American soldiers saved both China and
the Philippines from being conquered, colonized and enslaved by the
Japanese. The Japanese lost the war to the Americans and the West,
and their crimes are being singled out. That's the way the world
works. Washington Post (25-Nov) and Japan Forward and ABS-CBN (Manila, 20-Dec) and The Standard (Philippines)
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**** South Korea calls for renegotiating 2015 deal with Japan on comfort women
****
Civic groups in South Korea are demanding that a December 2015
deal between Japan and South Korea to settle the comfort women
issue be repudiated, and a new deal be negotiated to obtain more
money from Japan, as well as full acceptance of blame.
The 2015 agreement included a $8.8 million fund paid by Japan to help
the victims. Anti-Japanese groups in South Korea claim that the 2015
agreement did not fully take into account the views of the victims,
and that more money should be paid to them directly, rather than
through the government. According to some reports, victims who
accepted money from the fund were vilified by the anti-Japanese
groups.
The agreement also called for the removal of statues of comfort women
outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, and outside the Japanese
consulate in Busan city, but those statues have not been removed.
The 2015 agreement was supposed to resolve the comfort women issue
once and for all. Although all the activists' demands were met at the
time, some former victims were angry that they had not been consulted.
Japan's foreign minister Taro Kono has reacted angrily to the demand
to renegotiate the 2015 deal:
<QUOTE>"If (South Korea) tries to revise the agreement that
is already being implemented, that would make Japan’s ties with
South Korea unmanageable and it would be
unacceptable."<END QUOTE>
The implication of this threat is that South Korea and Japan
will not be able to work together to effectively counter
nuclear missiles threats from North Korea.
South Korea's foreign minister Kang Kyung-wha said, "Based on the
findings, the government will gather opinions of the victims and
others involved going forward with a focus to be placed on a
victims-centered approach. In addition, action will be taken
carefully in consideration of any impact that it could have on the
relations between South Korea and Japan." Yonhap (Seoul) and Reuters and Asia Times and The Atlantic (28-Dec-2015)
Related Articles
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Japan, comfort women, South Korea, Philippines,
Manila, Roxas Boulevard,
San Francisco, Osaka, Yokohama, Teresita Ang See,
Libya, Serbia, Amy Chua, South Korea,
Taro Kono, Kang Kyung-wha
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- China funds unauthorized anti-Japan comfort woman statue in Manila, Philippines
- South Korea calls for renegotiating 2015 deal with Japan on comfort women
****
**** China funds unauthorized anti-Japan comfort woman statue in Manila, Philippines
****
Unauthorized comfort woman statue on Roxas Boulevard in Manila, the Philippines (Japan Forward)
An unauthorized statue representing a "comfort woman" during Japan's
occupation of the Philippines has been erected on Roxas Boulevard in
Manila, usually reserved for statues of actresses and former
presidents.
The statue was funded by a group of Chinese donors working in
secret with a Philippines feminist organization. The statue
was reported in Chinese media even before an unveiling ceremony
took place on December 9.
On December 12, the Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)
sent a letter to the Mayor of Manila, with "requests for background
information regarding the monument, including the process of erecting
such monuments, and the circumstances that led to the erection of the
"Comfort Woman" statue." The mayor responded that the statue had been
erected without a permit, and that no permit had been issued.
A similar statue in San Francisco has drawn retaliation from Japan.
San Francisco and Osaka, Japan's third-largest city, became sister
cities in 1957, as part of a post-war effort to foster peace. Last
month, the mayor of Osaka announced that they will end the
relationship. Osaka mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura said, "Our relationship
of trust was completely destroyed. I will dissolve the sister-city
relationship."
So far, no similar retaliatory measures have been taken against Manila
or the Philippines for the Manila statue. Manila is a sister city of
Yokohama, Japan, while Japan is the Philippines' biggest partner in
trade, investment, and official development assistance.
Although no permit has been issued for the statue in Manila, Teresita
Ang See, identified as a "community and anticrime advocate" of Chinese
ancestry in Manila, justifies the statue:
<QUOTE>"The Japanese occupation is a fact. The atrocities,
persecutions, massacres, rape and other war crimes are
facts. These we cannot and should not deny. There is a park at the
corner of Anda and Gen. Luna Streets in Intramuros, put up by the
Memorare Manila, to remember the more than 100,000 civilians
killed during the Battle of Manila."<END QUOTE>
The Japanese say that they object to the statues because they are
being singled out, when rape and sexual slavery are common in any
war.
And the Japanese are absolutely right.
From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, rape, sexual
slavery and other sex crimes are common in war, especially
generational crisis wars, as a way of demoralizing the enemy.
Japan's sex crimes are over 70 years old, but there are girls and
women being sold as sex slaves in Libya today. These are Mideast and
African refugees who come to Libya hoping to cross over to Europe.
Instead, they run out of money to pay human traffickers and they get
auctioned off in slave auctions. The men are auctioned as worker
slaves, and the boys, girls and women are auctioned as sex slaves.
That's happening today, and I'm not aware of any statues being erected
for them.
As a Chinese woman, Teresita Ang See statement about comfort women is
probably motivated as much by her hatred of the Japanese and
Philippines people as she is about her concern for the victims.
The hatred between Chinese and Philippines people is enormous, as was
documented in a 2003 book World on Fire by Yale Law School
professor Amy Chua. Chua was a member of the élite Chinese descent
minority living in Manila, in an enclave walled off from ordinary
Filipinos, whom she never saw except as servants living in filth in
the basement of her family's mansion. Chua described what happened
after one of the servants murdered her aunt:
<QUOTE>"Each time I think of Nilo Abique -- he was close to
six feet and my aunt was four-feet-eleven-inches tall -- I find
myself welling up with a hatred and revulsion so intense it is
actually consoling. But over time I have also had glimpses of how
the Chinese must look to the vast majority of Filipinos, to
someone like Abique: as exploiters, as foreign intruders, their
wealth inexplicable, their superiority intolerable. I will never
forget the entry in the police report for Abique's "motive for
murder." The motive given was not robbery, despite the jewels and
money the chauffer was said to have taken. Instead, for motive,
there was just one word -- "Revenge."
My aunt's killing was just a pinprick in a world more violent than
most of us ever imagined. In America we read about acts of mass
slaughter and savagery; at first in faraway places, now coming
closer and closer to home. We do not understand what connects
these acts. Nor do we understand the role we have played in
bringing them about.
In the Serbian concentration camps of the early 1990s, the women
prisoners were raped over and over, many times a day, often with
broken bottles, often together with their daughters. The men, if
they were lucky, were beaten to death as their Serbian guards sang
national anthems; if they were not so fortunate, they were
castrated or, at gunpoint, forced to castrate their fellow
prisoners, sometimes with their own teeth. In all, thousands were
tortured and executed."<END QUOTE>
Perhaps one of my readers from the Balkans can let me know if there
are any statues being erected for the men who were castrated by their
fellow prisoners with their teeth.
In the end, this whole comfort women issue is an opportunistic
way to collect money from the Japanese, but it's really all about
the ethnic hatred that the Japanese, Chinese and Philippines
have for each other. In the last war, it was Japan versus
China and the Philippines. In the next war it will be China
versus Japan and the Philippines.
So the Japanese are completely correct that they're being singled
out for things that are common in generational crisis wars.
History is written by the victors. America and the West were the
victors in World War II, and American soldiers saved both China and
the Philippines from being conquered, colonized and enslaved by the
Japanese. The Japanese lost the war to the Americans and the West,
and their crimes are being singled out. That's the way the world
works. Washington Post (25-Nov) and Japan Forward and ABS-CBN (Manila, 20-Dec) and The Standard (Philippines)
****
**** South Korea calls for renegotiating 2015 deal with Japan on comfort women
****
Civic groups in South Korea are demanding that a December 2015
deal between Japan and South Korea to settle the comfort women
issue be repudiated, and a new deal be negotiated to obtain more
money from Japan, as well as full acceptance of blame.
The 2015 agreement included a $8.8 million fund paid by Japan to help
the victims. Anti-Japanese groups in South Korea claim that the 2015
agreement did not fully take into account the views of the victims,
and that more money should be paid to them directly, rather than
through the government. According to some reports, victims who
accepted money from the fund were vilified by the anti-Japanese
groups.
The agreement also called for the removal of statues of comfort women
outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, and outside the Japanese
consulate in Busan city, but those statues have not been removed.
The 2015 agreement was supposed to resolve the comfort women issue
once and for all. Although all the activists' demands were met at the
time, some former victims were angry that they had not been consulted.
Japan's foreign minister Taro Kono has reacted angrily to the demand
to renegotiate the 2015 deal:
<QUOTE>"If (South Korea) tries to revise the agreement that
is already being implemented, that would make Japan’s ties with
South Korea unmanageable and it would be
unacceptable."<END QUOTE>
The implication of this threat is that South Korea and Japan
will not be able to work together to effectively counter
nuclear missiles threats from North Korea.
South Korea's foreign minister Kang Kyung-wha said, "Based on the
findings, the government will gather opinions of the victims and
others involved going forward with a focus to be placed on a
victims-centered approach. In addition, action will be taken
carefully in consideration of any impact that it could have on the
relations between South Korea and Japan." Yonhap (Seoul) and Reuters and Asia Times and The Atlantic (28-Dec-2015)
Related Articles
- Japan and China in confrontation over comfort women (07-Mar-2007)
- Chinese commemorate the 1937 Massacre at Nanking (Nanjing) (18-Dec-2007)
- China and Japan really DO hate each other (30-Aug-2013)
- China says 'Fascist' Japan must 'abandon illusions' about disputed islands (26-Sep-2012)
- China's media 'accidentally' claims Philippines as part of China (10-May-2012)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Japan, comfort women, South Korea, Philippines,
Manila, Roxas Boulevard,
San Francisco, Osaka, Yokohama, Teresita Ang See,
Libya, Serbia, Amy Chua, South Korea,
Taro Kono, Kang Kyung-wha
Permanent web link to this article
Receive daily World View columns by e-mail
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John J. Xenakis
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Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-864-0010
E-mail: john@GenerationalDynamics.com
Web site: http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com
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