国連人権理事会４６セッション ジュネーブ国連本部
２０２１年３月１５日
新しい歴史教科書をつくる会 Japan Society for History Textbook
議題（item）4 における ＮＧＯ発言（ビデオ投稿）
発言者 矢野義昭
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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s abduction of Japanese people is one of the worst human rights violations by a government.
北朝鮮による日本国民の拉致は、国家による世界で最も酷い人権侵害の一つです。
The Government of Japan acknowledges that 17 Japanese citizens have been abducted by North Korea, of which only 5 have been returned.
日本政府が認定している拉致被害者は17名で、そのうち帰国したのは5人です。
In addition to 17 Japanese, there are about 875 others that have been possibly abducted.
拉致被害者17人に加えて、拉致された可能性のある失踪者は875名もいます。
The DPRK Government has asserted that the abduction issue has been resolved.
ところが北朝鮮は、拉致問題は解決済みと主張しているのです。
There are thousands of Japanese wives of North Koreans, moved from Japan, deceived by the lies of the DPRK.
北朝鮮の虚偽宣伝に騙され、北に渡った数千人の日本人妻がいます。
The abductees and Japanese wives are not allowed to return to Japan, or to meet relatives.
拉致被害者、日本人妻は日本に戻れず、家族との再会も許されません。
These Japanese face cruel discrimination.
これらの日本人は酷い差別にさらされています。
They are forced to live and slowly age and then quietly pass away.
このような状況で生き、年老い、亡くなっていくのです。
We request that the Council make the following recommendations:
私たちは人権理事会が北朝鮮政府に対し、次の勧告をするように要請します。
The DPRK must immediately return all abductees of Japanese and must allow Japanese wives, who wish to return to Japan.
拉致被害者全員を直ちに日本に戻し、日本人妻の帰国の自由を認めよ。
＜ 原文 ＞
The foreign minister of ROK Kang Kyung Wha has brought the comfort women issue to this council for 3 consecutive years despite the bilateral agreement signed between Japan and ROK, stipulating “the comfort women issue has been resolved finally and irreversibly.”
Japan paid 9.3 million dollars from taxpayer’s money to support comfort women when the agreement was made in 2015. However, the spending of this money is unaccounted for.
The last month, one of the former comfort women named Lee Yong-soo said at a press conference, “I have been exploited by Yun Mi-hyang, who used to be a leader of a comfort women supporting organization funded by ROK government and its citizens.
According to her, Yun Mi-hyang collected a huge amount of donations for 30 years but the donations were hardly used for former comfort women but used to purchase several real estate properties for her own use.
She also said that comfort women were not sex-slaves. Recently, the ROK government ironically passed legislation to make it illegal to “revise history.” History is not something that is judged by the court.
We request this council to recommend that the ROK government
1. stop abusing elderly women for monetary benefit,
2. disclose the use of funds provided by the Japanese government,
3. stop Japan bashing based on falsified stories and lies, and
4. stop violating the bilateral agreement between Japan and ROK.
新しい歴史教科書をつくる会 と国際歴史論戦研究所 が国連人権理事会（44会期/2020年6-7月）に共同意見書「韓国の詐欺的な 市民団体（ＮＧＯ）によって提起された慰安婦問題」（原題「A Deceitful Korean Citizens’ Group (NGO) and the Comfort Women Issue」）を5月27日付けで提出しました。
その意見書の全文をご紹介します。
慰安婦とは戦場近くで合法的に売春行為を行った人々であり、それはビルマで米軍の捕虜になった慰安婦及びその雇人に対する尋問結果をまとめた1944年10月１日付米国戦時情報局（US Office of War Information, OWI）の「心理戦報告書第49号」（米軍の公的資料）に「慰安婦とは、日本陸軍に随行した売春婦あるいは軍隊随伴業者に他ならない。“a comfort girl is nothing more than a prostitute or professional camp follower”」と記されていることからも明らかである。
