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国連 女子差別撤廃委員会から６３セッションにむけて日本政府に出された質問
「『慰安婦』の強制的連行（forcible removal）を示す証拠はなかったという最近の公式声明について日本政府のコメントを求める」
に対する日本政府の回答が発表されました。

2-(1)
日本政府は、1990年代初頭以降、慰安婦問題が日韓間における政治問題として取り上げ始められた際、事実関係に関する本格的な調査を行った。右調査とは、関係省庁における関連文書の調査、米国国立公文書館等での文献調査、更には軍関係者や慰安所経営者等各方面への聞き取り調査や挺対協の証言集の分析等である。当該調査を通じて得られた、日本政府が発見した資料の中には、軍や官憲によるいわゆる「強制連行」は確認できなかった。

※原文は英語　日本語は外務省仮訳。

以下原文、該当箇所を太字にしています。

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2015.7.30
CEDAW　から　日本への　質問（List of issues and questions ）

慰安婦問題についての質問
9. The Committee has been informed of recent public statements that there was no evidence that proved the forcible removal of “comfort women”. Please comment on this information. Please also indicate whether the State party intends to take compensatory measures on behalf of “comfort women” in countries other than those covered by the Asian Women’s Fund, including in China and Timor-Leste, and
prosecute the perpetrators. Please indicate whether the State party intends to
reintegrate into school textbooks references to the issue of “comfort women”, and
raise awareness among the population of the issue.

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2016.1
日本　から　CEDAWの質問への回答（Reply to List of Issues）

(Answer)
1. With the recognition that the comfort women issue continues to impact the development of Japan-ROK (Republic of Korea) relations, Governments of Japan and the ROK agreed at the Japan-ROK Summit Meeting held on November 2, 2015, to continue and accelerate consultations on the issue toward its conclusion as promptly as possible.　Subsequently, intensive bilateral consultations, including the Director-General consultations between the diplomatic authorities of the two countries, were carried out. On December 28, the Foreign Ministers of Japan and the ROK met and made an announcement (see Attachment) at a joint press occasion. Later on the same day, the leaders of Japan and the ROK spoke over the telephone and confirmed the content of the announcement. With this agreement, the Government of Japan (GOJ) and the Government of the Republic of Korea confirmed that the issue of comfort women is resolved finally and irreversibly.

2. Under the above-mentioned circumstances, the GOJ answers the questions posed by the committee as follows:

(1) Regarding the question on the “recent public statements that there was no evidence that proved the forcible removal of ‘comfort women’ ”:
The GOJ has conducted a full-scale fact-finding study on the comfort women issue since the early 1990s when the issue started to be taken up as a political issue between Japan and the ROK. The fact-finding study included 1) research and investigation on related documents owned by relevant ministries and agencies of the GOJ, 2) document searches at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, as well as 3) hearings of relevant individuals including former military parties and managers of comfort stations and analysis of testimonies collected by the Korean Council. “Forceful taking away” of comfort women by the military and government authorities could not be confirmed in any of the documents that the GOJ was able to identify in the above-mentioned study.

(2) Regarding the question “whether the State party intends to take compensatory measures on behalf of ‘comfort women’ in countries other than those covered by the Asian Women’s Fund, including in China and Timor-Leste, and prosecute the perpetrators”:
The GOJ does not have such intention of doing so.

(3) Regarding the question “whether the State party intends to reintegrate into school textbooks references to the issue of ‘comfort women’, and raise awareness among the population of the issue”:
The GOJ is not in a position to answer the question on the specific contents which are taken up in school textbooks and how these contents are described, since the GOJ does not adopt a government-designated textbook system.

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＜参考ニュース＞
産経　2016年01月31日
【「慰安婦」日韓合意】強制連行を国連で否定へ　政府、来月初報告へ