◆ Fox News (By Ellen Knickmeyer | AP)
San Francisco unveils memorial to WWII “comfort women” http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/22/san-francisco-unveils-memorial-to-wwii-comfort-women.html
↑記事より “And at the end, we will have a memorial in Tokyo. So they can say, ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry’ when they pass by,” said Lee, who came from South Korea,
「最後には私たちで東京に（慰安婦）記念碑を建てましょう。そうしたら彼ら（日本人）はそこを通るたびに”ごめんなさい、ごめんなさい”と言えるから」韓国から来た（元慰安婦）李さんは語った。
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◆ SF Gate September 22, 2017 By Steve Rubenstein
‘Comfort Women’ statue unveiled in SF Chinatown http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Comfort-Women-statue-unveiled-in-SF-Chinatown-12222122.php#photo-14202781
↑記事より Lee, who was kidnapped from her home in Korea at the age of 15 and forced to work in a Taiwan brothel that served Japanese soldiers, fought back tears as she said that the experience was “too much to talk about” and that she is “still suffering from the pain and torture.”
（元慰安婦）李さんは１５歳の時、韓国の実家から誘拐され台湾の日本軍向け売春宿で働かされた。その経験は「語りつくせない」もので、「今でも拷問と苦痛（の思い出）に苦しんでいます」と涙ながらに語った。
※ＳＦChronicle も同じ記事
“This monument bears witness to the suffering of hundreds of thousands of women and girls euphemistically called ‘Comfort Women,’ who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese Imperial Armed Forces in thirteen Asian-Pacific countries from 1931 to 1945.
Most of these women died during their wartime captivity.
This dark history was largely hidden for decades until the 1990s, when the survivors courageously broke their silence.
They helped move the world to declare that sexual violence as a strategy of war is a crime against humanity for which governments must be held accountable.
This memorial is dedicated to the memory of these women and to eradicating sexual violence and sex trafficking throughout the world.
—Gift to the city from the Comfort Women Justice Coalition”
結果は残念ながら、9月22日2017年をサンフランシスコ市及びサンフランシスコ郡で慰安婦の日と制定する決議案、決定となりました。ただし、決議案に修正がはいり、この部分が消去されました。
「WHEREAS, The Japanese government to this day has never officially apologized to those survivors; and」
（修正後採択された決議文はこちら）
9月19日サンフランシスコ議会にて、「2017年9月22日をサンフランシスコ市及びサンフランシスコ郡の慰安婦の日に制定する決議」は「WHEREAS, The Japanese government to this day has never officially apologized to those survivors; and（日本政府はこれまで生存者に対して公式謝罪していない）」の部分を除いた修正案で採択されてしまいました。
例として
件名：
I am against the comfort women Resolution
NO comfort women resolution
Please do not adopt the comfort women resolution
My opinion about the comfort women resolution
本文：
[例１]
Dear Board of Supervisors,
I strongly protest against “Resolution declaring September 22, 2017, as Comfort Women Day in the City and County of San Francisco.”
It will create conflict between Chinese and Korean background citizens and Japanese background citizens in SF. It is not good in your multicultural society.
Sincerely,
差出人名前 住所
（決議に反対です。中華系韓国系と日系との対立を生みます。多文化社会にはふさわしくありません。）
[例２]
Dear Board of Supervisors,
I strongly protest against “Resolution declaring September 22, 2017, as Comfort Women Day in the City and County of San Francisco.”
It will promote hostility towards the Japanese American community, including increasing tensions between Asian American. The resolution, rather than promoting inclusion, will promote intolerance.
Sincerely,
差出人名前 住所
（決議に反対です。アジア系の間に緊張を生み、日系に対する敵対心を助長します。決議は不寛容を生み出します。）
[例３]
Dear Board of Supervisors,
I am strongly against “Resolution declaring September 22, 2017, as Comfort Women Day in the City and County of San Francisco.”
The comfort women issue deals with matters between foreign governments and has nothing to do with SF. I ask you not to adopt the resolution at the next meeting.
Sincerely,
差出人名前 住所
（決議に反対です。慰安婦問題は外国政府の問題でSFは関係ありません。市議会で採択しないでください。）
[例４]
Dear Board of Supervisors,
I protest “Resolution declaring September 22, 2017, as Comfort Women Day in the City and County of San Francisco.”
It will open the floodgates for others seeking a platform for incidents that occurred outside of this country. I ask you not to adopt the resolution at the next meeting.
Sincerely,
差出人名前 住所
（決議に反対です。多国の対立を更に持ち込むことになるでしょう。市議会で採択しないでください。）
[例５]
Dear Board of Supervisors,
I protest against “Resolution declaring September 22, 2017, as Comfort Women Day in the City and County of San Francisco.”
Is it okay for SF to be secretly influenced and misled by North Korean political maneuvering in your multicultural society?
I am afraid this resolution will become a trigger to create racial conflicts in SF.
Sincerely,
差出人名前 住所
（決議に反対です。多文化のSFが北朝鮮の工作に載せられて良いのですか。決議は民族の対立を生みます。）
[例６]
Dear Board of Supervisors,
I strongly protest against “Resolution declaring September 22, 2017, as Comfort Women Day in the City and County of San Francisco.” I have read the resolution, and found out there are many factual errors.
I believe SF must not make a historical judgement without verifications.
Sincerely,
差出人名前 住所
（決議に反対です。決議文には事実誤認があります。SFが事実検証もなく歴史判断をすべきでないと信じます。）
◆ サンフランシスコ市議会 2017年9月19日議題 http://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/bag091917_agenda.pdf
page 15） 32. 170991 [Comfort Women Day – September 22, 2017]
Sponsors: Fewer; Kim and Ronen
Resolution declaring September 22, 2017, as Comfort Women Day in the City and
County of San Francisco.
FILE NO. 170991
[Comfort Women Day – September 22, 2017]
Resolution declaring September 22, 2017, as Comfort Women Day in the City and County of San Francisco.
WHEREAS, The term “comfort women” euphemistically refers to hundreds of thousands of women and young girls who were forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during its colonial and wartime occupation of Asia and the Pacific Islands from the 1930s through the duration of World War II; and
WHEREAS, This system of sexual servitude was the largest organized system in the twentieth century; and
WHEREAS, Most of these women died but those who survived courageously broke their silence, therefore aiding the movement against sexual violence during war; and
WHEREAS, The International Community has declared sexual violence as a strategy of war a crime against humanity; and
WHEREAS, The Japanese government to this day has never officially apologized to those survivors; and
WHEREAS, This system of sexual slavery helped pave the way for systems of sex trafficking; and
WHEREAS, Sex trafficking and sexual slavery during wartime is still going on; and
WHEREAS, The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed Resolution 342-15 calling for the building of a memorial to the comfort women in San Francisco and to educate its students about the history, past and present; and
WHEREAS, The Comfort Women Justice Coalition, a broad coalition of immigrant communities women’s organizations, and 11 human rights groups organized to build the memorial for “comfort women;” and
WHEREAS, On September 22, 2017, the statue “Comfort Women: Pillar of Strength” will be unveiled in St. Mary’s Square Annex; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That September 22, 2017, be declared a day to honor and remember the Comfort Women.
