CCTV news: According to Japan's Kyodo News Agency reported on the 6th, the Japanese Cabinet Office collected 23 new official documents related to the "comfort women" issue in 2017 and 2018, the content of which may become supplementary materials for the conversation of Yohei Kono, then chief cabinet secretary in 1993, confirming the Japanese military's participation in the forced conscription of "comfort women".
According to reports, the 23 official documents, including 13 confidential documents of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1938, were all the contents of the contact between the Japanese Consulate in China and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at that time, which recorded that "the army side considered that every 70 soldiers needed about 1 waitress" and "special women who went south in military vehicles" and so on. "Waitresses" and "special women" were interpreted in other reports as "like prostitutes" and "forced into lowly occupations", meaning "comfort women". Japanese experts believe that the content of these materials is evidenced by the planned concentration of women by the military as the main body.
Since 1991, the Cabinet office of Japan has begun to investigate the issue of "comfort women", collecting 236 official documents on the "comfort women" issue from various provincial agencies and listening to the victims. On this basis, Yohei Kono delivered a speech in 1993 acknowledging the direct involvement of the military in the establishment, management and transportation of "comfort stations" .