European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 16, 1992 the stars and stripes c Page 9 Comfort girl stories stun japanese former soldiers confess on Busy hot line Tokyo apr former soldiers Are flooding a Telephone hot line with confessions civic groups Are rallying for official contrition and a Comfort girls a a once forgotten phrase is front Page news. On the eve of prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa a visit to Seoul South Korea reminders were everywhere wednesday of an embarrassing fact Tokyo had denied for decades a that during the War its government provided sex slaves for japanese soldiers. A what we Are seeing is the dark Side of Japan a military revealed a said Keiko Yasuhara who represents a group that has set up a Comfort girl hot line to gather information from former soldiers. Yasuhara said More than 100 former Imperial soldiers have called in to Tell their stories Over the past two Days. A we have been overwhelmed by the reaction a she said adding that organizers Hope to use information gleaned from the callers As evidence in a lawsuit filed last month in Tokyo by several former korean Comfort girls charging the government with a crimes against  in addition to koreans chinese and japanese women were forced into the sexual service. According to one hot line caller japanese women were often reserved for officers Yasuhara said. The hot line follows government acknowledgement monday that the military sanctioned and funded the use of Comfort girls by its troops. Tokyo was forced into that admission by the revelation of documents found in a defense Agency Archive last week. Korean historians say from 70,000 to 200,000 teenagers and Young women were forced to serve in a corps that provided sex for japanese troops in China and Southeast Asia. About 90 percent of the sex corps members were korean historians say. Daily demonstrations have been held in Seoul since the news of the documents was reported Over the weekend. Several groups held rallies in Tokyo on tuesday. The timing of the revelations  have been worse for Miyazawa who is leaving today for Seoul on his first overseas trip since assuming office two months ago. Visits to South Korea where wartime hostilities toward Japan measure strongly in Public sentiment arc never easy for japanese leaders. In addition Miyazawa is already on shaky ground for a series of political failures at Home. Two major newspapers wednesday devoted editorials to the trip calling on Miyazawa to apologize and urging the government to conduct a serious investigation. A the stance of the japanese government is too passive a said the nationally circulated Manichi. A the Comfort girls Are getting old. The government should conduct a prompt and thorough  sex slave says Shell never forgive Japan by Paul Shin the associated press Seoul South Korea a Kim Hak Sun wiping tears from her wrinkled Cheeks says she will never forgive Japan. She was one of thousands of korean women used As sex slaves for japanese soldiers during world War ii. As a teen Ager Kim was taken to an army Camp in Manchuria where she says she and four other korean women were forced to have sex with More than 300 japanese soldiers Day and night. A we were no More than sex animals a said the 67-year-old woman who lives in a Shantytown in Seoul. A we Felt like a Public lavatory and nothing More than a tool for japanese  the sordid Story of Kim and other korean a Comfort girls received renewed attention on the eve of japanese prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa a arrival today for a three Day state visit. Koreans have staged daily protests de manding Miyazawa officially apologize for brutalities during japanese colonial Rule of Korea that lasted from 1910 until the wars end in 1945. Tokyo has said he will apologize. Victims associations also want com the Issue was largely ignored by Japan and Korea until three victims including Kim filed suit in Tokyo late last year seeking damages. The suit is pending. Kim was born in Jilin China in 1924 apology is better than no apology but i Don t think they Are really repenting Kim Hak Sun sensation for the Comfort girls. Korean historians say Between 70,000 and 200,000 teen agers and Young women were forced to serve in Teishi Tai a corps that provided sexual services for front line japanese troops in China and Southeast Asia during the War. But raised in what is now North Korea. When she was 16, she returned to China to work and it was in Beijing in 1941 where she was grabbed off the Street by japanese soldiers she said. Then 17, she was sent to Manchuria and forced to have sex with hundreds of japanese soldiers a at their whim. A they did that until we became unconscious a she said coughing constantly from asthma. The girls moved with the unit along the chinese front line. After four months Kim said she escaped later married a korean Man in China and returned to Seoul in 1945. Her husband and two children died during the 1950-53 korean War. A the Only reason 1 decided to testify in Public is because of the constant japanese denial that they were not involved a Kim said. A the japanese Are More cruel and cunning than the  on monday Japan acknowledged for the first time that its Imperial army was involved in the abduction of korean Comfort girls and said Miyazawa would Issue an apology at talks with president Roh Tae woo in Seoul. A apology is better than no apology but i done to think they arc really repenting a Kim said. A was far As the past is concerned their deeds did not conform with their  for radiation Cheryl Malich a Portland general electric radiation technician prepares Aksana Kanosh Naya of Kiev Ukraine for a radiation test monday at the Trojan nuclear Plant in Rainier Wash. Aksana was one of 40 children being checked for radiation effects from the 1986 chernobyl nuclear Accident. Spouses working for germans May face hike in payroll taxes by de Reavis Start writer spouses of . Government employees and military personnel who work for German firms could be paying higher German payroll taxes this year a spokesman for the German finance office in Wiesbaden said wednesday. The potential hike is linked to a change in policy under which spouses salaries will be considered in determining tax rates. Beginning this year German tax offices will request earnings statements for All wage earners in the family. Such statements could include w-2 forms that indicate salaries wages and tips of . Employees including service members. A there in Wiesbaden we require a copy of the spouses w-2 form a the spokesman said. The spokesman said the policy change is an attempt to make taxation in Germany More equitable. The spokesman said that previously the spouse of an american Soldier or government civilian employee was taxed As though he or she were single. This put that person in the highest tax bracket but paying a lower rate than persons with wage earning spouses. A that was a great discrepancy the spokesman said. A i have no idea Why this situation was allowed to  As an example the spokesman said that before the change a soldiers wife making 30,000 Marks a year was paying about 20 percent of that total in taxes. Under the new ruling if her husband is making the same amount she now Falls into the category of someone making 60,000 Marks a year which Means that she would be paying 30 percent of that total in taxes. The spokesman said he had no idea How Many people the policy will affect. He said that All German tax office officials throughout the country were not fully knowledgeable about the change. A spokeswoman at the German finance office in Frankfurt said officials there were unaware of any changes in tax Laws that might affect american spouses of German taxpayers. A spokesman for the German finance ministry in Bonn said the requests for w-2 forms stemmed from an agreement signed in september 1989, Between the United states and Germany. The agreement was designed to ensure that families were not taxed twice on their total income. Larry be grand a finance expert with the . Embassy in Bonn said the change in procedure by German tax offices reflected a no new Law or regulation Quot but was simply another Means of carrying out the 1989  to write Book on windsors paper says new York apr Kitty Kelley whose unauthorized biographies of Frank Sinatra Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Nancy Reagan caused a stir will turn next to the British Royal family a newspaper reported wednesday. Warner books is expected to announce that it has signed Kelley to write a Book on the House of Windsor the new York times reported