Criticisms
Hirofumi Hayashi has made many remarks criticizing Hata. Regarding Hata's book “Comfort Women and Sex in War” (“慰安婦と戦場の性”, Hata, 1999) professor Hayashi said,
- “(Hata’s) handling of documents is faulty. For example, there was a document about a 1938 request from the army to (Japan’s) Home Ministry which led to the recruiting of comfort women. In (Hata’s) book, this inquiry sent from a section chief to a bureau director in the Home Ministry is disguised as instructions to various government offices. Furthermore, it allocates the number of comfort women in five prefectures, but the number of people (in Hata’s book) is nonsense. (Hata’s) numbers show 650 (comfort women) even though the document lists the total as 400. He even arbitrarily changed the wording of quotes he used.”
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