TOKYO, Dec. 20 KYODO NEWS
About 260 memoirs from World War II published between 1990 and 2006 contain specific references to the Japanese military’s wartime brothels in which so-called ”comfort women” were forced to provide sexual services to military personnel, and sexual violence at the battlefront, the Center for Research and Documentation on Japan’s War Responsibility said Sunday.
From Vancouver-based peace activist Satoko Norimatsu’s blog:
According to a Kyodo News Agency report on December 20, 2009, The Center for Research and Documentation on Japan’s War Responsibility (JWRC) discovered that about 260 documents published between 1990 and 2006, including personal notes written by those who experienced war, had concrete descriptions of “comfort stations” installed throughout different parts of Asia, “comfort women,” and other sexual violence in the battlefields. Among those are reports of kempeitai, or military police officers examining “comfort women” and drawings of “comfort stations.”
JWRC went through about 2,000 documents, including battlefield diaries and personal memoirs, stored in the National Diet Library, from March to June this year. These documents were published during 1990’s and after, when the former “comfort women” started to call for apologies and compensation from the Japanese government.
Chuo University Professor Yoshiaki Yoshimi, who examined those documents points out that there are many specific details reported in these documents, including the deep military involvement with the sex slavery system.
Most of the documents with reference to the “comfort women” are personal memoirs, instead of public documents. Yoshimi suspects there was pressure within veterans’ associations for not speaking out about the issue.
The result of this research will be published in the December 2009 and March 2010 issues of “The Report on Japan’s War Responsibility,” the quarterly journal by JWRC.
Sylvia Yu Friedman & Matthew Friedman 
This is a message for Sylvia Yu, re: rotten leg village. I know that there is a lady in China trying to get compensation for RLD victims and their descendants. I have read that Japanese representatives just clam up when this particularly horrific atrocity is brought up.
There is a reason why they don’t talk about it ! The reason is that ALL their research and records were turned over to the U.S. Military, in exchange for the pardonning of one of the worst offenders, in 1947. A Mr Ishii!
So in fact there may be noone in Japan capable of naming the pathogen(s) used , nor the vector(s).
Shortly after the Korean War, some Chinese scientists presented a “mass” of collembola, which they claimed were dropped by U.S. planes, causing more RLD.
It is assumed that Pseudomonas mallei, is the pathogen of RLD. Tens of thousands of people in (mainly) N. America, have been diagnosed with DOP, without any testing being applied. After the fact, randy Wymore, testing samples from many of these people, found them to have as a pathogen Pseudomonas putida.
The CDC, at the urging of many state health Authorities, as well as many political reps (including Barack Obama and Hiliary Clinton), has been urged to find the answer. The CDC is into its 3rd year now, with no word.
I believe that RLD is related to this disease, which was named Morgellons, by a victim. Whether I am correct or not…I know that the U.S. military could clear up the question being put to Japan. So why don’t they??